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Time Entry - Application Program Interface (API)

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Chandra
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4/22/2009 5:46 PM

    Like anybody else, we are  a shop with various applications and technologies. Some of our service departments have a different time accounting application to account for the time spent on incidents / problem tickets/ projects. We also have Lawson time entry where time is entered logging into the portal for payroll purposes.

    Employees having to enter times in several places and verifying /consolidating it to match it all places is becoming critical and taking considerable amount of time. We are in the researching phase now.  One of the options we were leaning towards is to find out, if there is a way to capture the information from different time logging applications and directly update into Lawson time entry tables, ofcourse using Lawson API. Doing so will help employees to enter time one time and only at one place (plan is to update Lawson behind the scenes) .

    (1) Does Lawson have API or any other functionality (to resovle our problem) for updating Lawson tables from time entry data collected outside of Lawson.

    (2) Anyone has been in a similar situation and if so how did they resolve it .

    (3) Any other ideas are welcome.

    Thanks

     

     

     

     

    John Henley
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    4/22/2009 11:25 PM
      I'm assuming you're using base Lawson PR for time entry, not Time & Expense.
      Have you looked at PR530? It allows you to interface via CSV files.
      Thanks for using the LawsonGuru.com forums!
      John
      Gary Davies
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      4/23/2009 9:33 AM
        If you have ProcessFlow Integrator that can be an option as well. The product incorporates what was BCI with ProcessFlow. It is the Lawson solution for interfacing external systems and includes a "mapping" feature called DataStage (was called Mercator before) that can convert an input file from one layout to a Lawson specific layout in a user friendly GUI.

        You can trigger the interface by scanning a directory for specific files, from actions on a form or schedule them at custom intervals. If you are Java savy you can create your own custom triggers as well.