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Form Transer Creation in Portal

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DianaE
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3/4/2009 8:41 PM

    Hi everyone, I'm hoping someone has already gone through this process and may be able to help me out. We currently use FlexForm for printing our AP and payroll checks. In LID, we setup a Form Transfer (F8) (in the User tab) that accesses Environment Form ID's that we created.  These form's access/run .bat scripts (on the Windows server) that create the formating and print our checks.

    We want to move our users to Portal and I cannot find any Lawson documentation on how to recreate this LID process. We are on LSF9, Applications 9, and on Windows server. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

    John Henley
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    3/5/2009 12:50 AM

      As far as I know, this has never been addressed in Portal, even though this limitation has existed for many years (see blog.lawsonguru.com/2005/10/05/when-will-lid-go-away/).

      The only workarounds I'm aware of:

      • Create a COBOL form in the product line as a wrapper to collect whatever parameters are required, and call a script/batchfile from the COBOL program.
      • Create a web page that can execute the script/batchfile, and use Design Studio to execute it.
      Thanks for using the LawsonGuru.com forums!
      John
      DianaE
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      3/12/2009 3:31 PM
        Quick update: I was able to create a work around for running the .sh/.bat files. I created a new Printer Definition (prtdef) and pointed the Print Command to the location of the files on the server. Then my user goes to Print Manager - selects the job - selects the created printer.