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Stephanie
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12/18/2013 8:15 PM

    We currently utilize Manage Identities in LS for our RQC Users.  Part of their steps when becoming a new user is to assign themselves a bookmark which contains the RQC Shopping, Template Maintenance, and various usage screens.  I have such a hard time walking users through these steps and find it hard to believe there is not a way to automatically assign these users a bookmark - or perhaps an easy way to modify the home screen without using LBI to provide these links to the users without them going through steps they will never use again.

    Has anyone customized their home screen login page or haved used one of the methods below?  Any other suggestions?


    Article ID:78831
    Description:
    When users log into the Lawson Portal for the first time, they must choose Preferences >Content to select their bookmarks. The selected bookmarks are then displayed in the Navigation Pane or the Main Content Pane. However, users thathave been assigned to Required Content must click "OK" to download updates and then re-load the Portal.
    Is there a way to avoid this and have bookmarks displayautomatically?
    Resolution:
    There are two automated methods for displaying a user's bookmarks when they log into the Lawson Portal.
    Method #1:
    When userslog into the Portal for the first time,all bookmarksassigned to the group the user belongs to will automatically display. Any shortcuts that have been created will also display. Users will not be required to save layout changes after logging into the Portal for the first time.
    Note: This scenario is particularly useful when you don'twant users to have access to the Preferences Content menu item. Itisalso useful when you do want users to have access to the Preferences Content screen to allow them toremovecontent from their layout.
    To enable this auto-display method,customize the Portal Layoutfor one user and copythe user's updated.xml file to other users.
    Example:
    You have 10 people in your Accounts Payable (AP) department thatall need the same bookmarks and shortcuts.These users are allowed to add and remove contentintheir Portal Layout.
    Follow the steps outlined below to customize the content for one of your AP department users and copy the customizations to your other 9 users' role files. When your AP accountants log into the Lawson Portal for the first time, their bookmarks and shortcuts will automatically display.
    1. Create a web user called APAccountant.
    2. Create a group called AP.
    3. Assign the desired bookmarks to the AP group using the Edit Access feature in Bookmark Manager.
    4. Assign the AP group to the APAccountant web userand the additional 9 web users that will have the same bookmarks and shortcuts.
    5. Log into the Lawson Portal as the APAccountant user.
    6. Click on Preferences > Content menu item.
    7. Customize the Portal Layout for the user. Assignbookmarks that you want displayed for the user to show in the Navigation Pane or the Main Content Pane.
    8. Save your layout changes.
    9. Create any shortcuts you want this group of users to have.
    10. Go to aLawson Insight Desktop (LID) command line, type cd WEBDIR/lawson/portal/users and press Enter.
    11. Copy the APAccountant.xml file to the user's .xml file
    cp APAccountant.xml .xml
    ( is the name of the web user account that is used to log into Portal)
    • Repeat step11 for all the AP web user accounts you added to the AP group.
    Method #2:
    When users log into the Lawson Portal for the first time, all bookmarks assigned to the role file the user belongs to will automatically display. Users will not be required to save layout changes after logging into the Portal forthe first time. If you only want to automatically assign bookmarks to users and are satisfied if they must click OK the first time they log into Portal, you can skip steps 12-16.
    Note: This scenario is particularly useful when you don't want users to have access to the Preferences Content menu item. Itisalso useful when you do want users to have access to the Preferences Content screen, but you don't want to them to remove specific content from their Portal Layout.
    To enable this auto-display method, you will need to create a role file, assigned bookmark locks andassign the role file to a user.
    Example:
    Youhave 10 people in your Accounts Payable (AP) department thatall need the same bookmarks.Your users are allowed to add new content to their Portal Layout, but are not allowed to remove content that is assigned to them.
    Follow the steps outlined below to customize the content for one role file and assign this role file to all 10 of your AP users, customize the content for 1 of your AP department users, and copy the customizations to your other 9 users' role files.
    1. Create a web user called APAccountant.
    2. Create a group called AP or use one of the standard groups that Lawson delivers.
    3. Assign the desired bookmarks to the AP group using the Edit Access feature in Bookmark Manager.
    4. Assign the AP group to the APAccountant web userand the additional 9 web users that will have the same bookmarks.
    5. Create a copy of the WEBDIR/lawson/portal/roles/default.xml role file.
    6. Go to the Portal Administration menu and selectRequired Content.
    7. Select your new role file.
    8. Place layout locks on the bookmarks that you want to display automatically in the Portal Layout.
    9. Save your changes.
    10. Run an IOSCacheRefresh (http://hostname/servlet/IOSCacheRefresh).
    11. Assign the role file to the APAccountant web user and your other 9 usersusing the PORTALROLE attribute. (For detailed instructions on completing this step, see Lawson Knowledge Base article 1195546 titled, "Portal Security: Enabling Searching of Bookmarks Only".
    12. Log into thePortal as the APAccountant user.
    13. When you receive a message saying "Updates have been downloaded. Reload Portal", click OK.
    14. Go toa LID command line, type cd WEBDIR/lawson/portal/users and press Enter.
    15. Copy the APAccountant.xml file to the user's.xml file
    cp APAccountant.xml .xml
    (where is the name of the web user account that is used to log into thePortal.
    • Repeat step #11 for all the AP web user accounts you added to the AP group.



    Stephanie Kowal | skowal@rpic.com
    Greg Moeller
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    12/19/2013 10:26 PM
      You can manually just push bookmarks. Just edit the $LAWDIR/persistdata/lawson/portal/data/users/login-id.xml file for the specific user..

      If you are using say johnd as a login to Lawson theirs would be $LAWDIR/persistdata/lawson/portal/data/users/johnd.xml

      Edit the johnd.xml file and put in the numeric value of the bookmark into both the NAVLET and BOOKMARK sections, creating a new line for each.. keeping the spacing the same as existing bookmarks.

      The bookmark number can be found by rngdbdump -cnt logan lobkmark | grep "Whater you called it" and look in the first column.

      The next or first time that johnd logs into Lawson, the bookmark will already be there.