Element Groups

Lawson includes two element groups PROCLEVEL and HREMP.

PROCLEVEL is used to replace the process level security defined for security classes in LAUA and uses Programmatic Security. You will need to redefine the process level security laid out in LAUA for any users moving to LS.

HREMP is used to replace the data level security defined in HR applications and uses programmatic security. If you already have HR security defined in HR9 and HR10, you do not need to redifine it if you have it in place already.

When either of these are defined for a role, they are used by Programmatic Security wherever you define they are to be used in the access rule on the Element Group.

If you create your own Element Group, you will need to write rules on the individual object you would like to secure with isElementGrpAccessible functions.

Hope this helps.

Element groups don't necessarily have to be key fields, although they typically would be used as keys for some tables, e.g. ACTIVITY, COMPANY & ACCT_UNIT, etc.

Regarding the statement, "even though the column names in some Lawson tables are different they may refer to the same thing"? The answer is conceptually, ACCT-UNIT and ACCT-UNIT-1 would be used the same way, however there are a myriad of ways that Lawson may name a field like ACCT-UNIT, and unfortunately you have to "know" that on some forms DIST-ACCT-UNIT might just be used as the field you want to secure, and therefore need to reference in a rule rather than ACCT-UNIT.

Yes, element groups are mainly used for data level security.