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imty

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Posts: 35

3/15/2013 4:36 PM

Hello All,

Can anyone recommend a good LBI course/class that I could take that is comprehensive and covers LBI Administration, interfacing LBI with Crystal and writing scripts to control LBI functionality.

This may be a pretty advanced course but if there are introductory courses that encompass these areas, then I could first take the introductory course and progress to the advanced course.

I have been using LBI as Admin for the past two years. So, I have a pretty good idea in areas such as, creating a datasource, publishing reports to LBI, assigning users' rights/roles. Creating dashboard links and scheduling reports. This level of knowledge, I consider to be pretty rudimentary and would like to have better control of LBI functionalities and learn how to customize to meet our requirements.

For example, we have a payroll dashboard which includes 5 modules. In some months, we have 3 payroll periods, so I would like to control the appearance of the other modules based on the payroll periods in the month.

I have asked this question before in this forum, and was told by one of the group contributors that I would have to write a script to do this. These are some of the things I would like to learn to do as circumstances entail.

Any suggestions ?

Thanks,
Imty.

Matthew Nye

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Posts: 514

3/15/2013 6:33 PM

imty,

I think I was the one the made the recommendation about scripts and unfortunately you probably arent going to find much custom scripting in the standard courses, even the advanced ones. If you want to get the best results from Infor run training, you need to know the person that is conducting the training. The best sessions are the ones geared toward the services partners. They are typically 5 day courses shoved into 3 day sessions. Youll probably need to talk with your Infor Account Manager to get the drop on the schedule but usually the guys running these sessions are the cream of the crop and if you ask them before or after the session, they can give you scripts and tips that arent really made public.

Alternatively (warning shameless self promotion), if you really want to get into the weeds on scripting, your best bet is to contact a consulting firm or Infor Professional Services to have a one-on-one knowledge transfer agenda that covers some of these specific items. The cost is probably going to be about the same, minus your travel costs.

hope this helps.

imty

Advanced Member

Posts: 35

3/15/2013 8:24 PM

Thanks Matthew. Do you know anything about Design Studio. Would that be worthwhile taking to get a basic understanding on how to write simple Java scripts, or would a Java Script class be a better option? The problem with Infor is that everything comes with a price tag. I know first-hand cos when I was looking for some information on replicating one of the Lawson reports in Crystal, they were not willing to share too much information. They were more eager to suggest one of their consultants to provide further assistance. I am only looking for insight into writing basic scripts, for example the payroll script; nothing too complicated I believe.....

I will try checking with the Info Account Manager to see what they have to offer.
thanks,
Imty.

Matthew Nye

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Posts: 514

3/16/2013 2:33 PM

Imty,

Design Studio course will probably give you better exposure to JavaScript than an Advanced LBI course but Ive never taken one so you may want to find someone that has to get better feedback.

Honestly, if you just want an introduction, there is some really good content on YouTube. Just search for Into to JavaScript. Also, theres a great website that takes you from absolute beginner to advanced techniques called Code Academy (http://www.codecademy.com ). Its highly interactive and fun to use. Perhaps start there and get your feet wet and then see how far that will take you.

As with a lot of the Lawson/Info API/SDKs, documentation is minimal and requires a lot of digging around and exploration. A healthy understanding of web development standards will get you farther than anything else.

Ben Coonfield

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Posts: 146

3/17/2013 11:30 PM

I think a Design Studio class would be most useful AFTER you have had some training and practice with JavaScript in general.

imty

Advanced Member

Posts: 35

3/18/2013 3:56 PM

Thanks guys for your candid views. I will try the code academy as Matthew had suggested and try to get my feet wet with Java Script.

Imty.

Mary Porter

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Posts: 337

4/19/2013 4:03 PM

imty - how did you learn about setting up datasources and assigning rights/roles? We are publishing reports on dashboards based upon security groups but
need to get to the next level so that we can give managers access to just their data through rights. I'm not having a lot of luck with just the manual.

Georgette

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Posts: 52

4/19/2013 4:34 PM

Hi Mary,
I use the bursting in LBI. I learned without a class, but did download an excellent resource from the Lawson site called Publishing Back Office Reports. (Reporting Services 9). This 30 page document takes you step by step in how to publish and burst. Document number REPUG-9010W-01

imty

Advanced Member

Posts: 35

4/19/2013 4:53 PM

Mary,

I did not take an LBI class either. I mostly learned about creating datasources and assigning rights primarily through some documentation provided to us by the folks who did the implementation for us. Creating a data source is pretty striaght forward.

Assigning rights is not complicated, but silightly involved. You need to have a structure, element already created before you can assign rights. I see another forum participant has already responded and provided a good source for this information. If you like I can send you the documentation that we were given, which is not comprehensive, but would give you a pretty good idea.

I suggest looking at the document that the OP referred to.If that does not seem to help, then let me know. I will send what I have.

Regards,
Imtiaz.

Mary Porter

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Posts: 337

4/24/2013 9:29 PM

I did get some great help from another member of this forum but I'm having difficulty finding the 30 page document that was mentioned about bursting back office reports.
Was that on the ifnor site or the mylawson site? I'll keep looking around.

imty

Advanced Member

Posts: 35

4/24/2013 10:13 PM

I tried looking for it too in the Inforum and could not find it either. It may either have been removed or moved some place else.... unless it is the MyLawson site which I have not looked at.:D

Georgette

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Posts: 52

4/25/2013 10:57 AM

Sorry, I may have received the document from an online class. Our organization had an agreement that gave us so many online classes. Perhaps your account exec can find it for you? It is a 30 page PDF file called Publishing Back Office Reports. It does not have the instructors name or I would mention that. Turns out the REPUG-9010W-01 number I gave you is for a resource mentioned on the slide for a manual called Reporting Services and Report Bursting User and Administration Guide. The instructor led course number is RPTSRV90. Also, there is a KB1194981 article on the Infor Xtreme site that is helpful.

Georgette

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Posts: 52

6/4/2013 2:58 PM

Found the Publishing back office report overview on the inforxtreme.com website. It is Article ID 5412247.

Mary Porter

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Posts: 337

6/4/2013 4:55 PM

Got it - thanks for posting that you found it!

Georgette

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6/5/2013 1:47 PM

You're welcome Mary. I did an initial search earlier and could not find it. I was researching another topic when I found this. It is not the complete document, as the one I have also outlines how to set up the Rights Management.

Basically, you set up the structure first, then the elements and then the rights. For example, the AP275 uses only the accounting unit element but the RW100 uses both Company and Accounting Unit elements in the bursting tags. So two diffierent structures and element references had to be created for each report.

The next step is to create rights for each structure where users and/or groups are assigned to the elements.

The advantage is that once the rights (structure and element) are created, they can be reused. I've created Crystal Reports that uses the AP275 rights to burst