How to add or edit Smart Notification related Info to an existing Smart Note in LBI

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First lets login into LBI and open smart notifications:

Once open, go to Notifications Tab:

Select edit on the notification you want to modify:

Go to the Related Info >> Links >> Enter a Name and Web Address >> Add >> Save Updates:

To edit an existing related info link, simply select edit under “My Custom Urls”:

Make sure you Save Updates!

These related Info Links show up at the bottom of the report the user receives as shown below:

This type of work is typically done by a Lawson technical resource. Organizations often hire a Lawson consultant team who offer managed services at a fixed monthly rate. These Lawson teams have a wider range of expertise and knowledge and are ideal for larger organizations but also are great for smaller ones that don’t need a dedicated Lawson employee on-site. Nogalis does offer this as a service so feel free to reach out to us via our contact page.

Infor Launches New Application to Combat Nurse Shortage for Healthcare Industry

This month Infor launched a new application – Infor Clinical Science – as part of the Infor Work Management suite as a move to help combat nurse shortage in the healthcare industry. Per the press release, this application measures the workload of each patient via evidence-based methodology to provide leaders with a complete picture of labor requirements for each shift, unit or department, all based on documentation already occurring in the electronic medical record (EMR). By measuring the workloads at the task/activity level, this provides healthcare leaders with deeper insights into the work being performed and can adjust and adapt scheduling in real time to directly address and combat the ever-present healthcare worker shortage. Clinical Science uses EMR documentation to provide insights into patient care requirements and helps decision makers efficiently deploy available staff needed across the organization. Additionally, Clinical Science provides deep insights into each patient’s unique care needs and, by evaluating individual patient workloads, room proximity, and continuity of care, helps inform the nurse-patient assignment process to ensure fair and equitable patient assignments. This application can also support departments with mandated staffing ratios by ensuring the assignments are fair and equitable and can help leaders determine units or departments that may need additional support. Further, Clinical Science accounts for the differences between patients to ensure optimal patient care, while maintaining any mandated ratios. With this new application Infor is now the only solution that offers an end-to-end experience deployed in a single cloud solution for healthcare labor planning and tracking, including alignment with patient workloads and the assignment of patients to nurses to ensure safe, high-quality patient care.

 

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The Top 5 Education Trends In 2023

The modern classroom looks very different than how we spent our time in traditional classroom setups. Many education systems have embraced the available technology to make learning more interactive, current, and accessible. Bernard Marr, international best-selling author, popular keynote speaker, futurist, and a strategic business & technology advisor, shares an article on Forbes about the educational trends we should see in 2023 and beyond.

Artificial Intelligence. “Artificial Intelligence (AI), described as the most transformative technology of the 21st century, is reshaping every industry and field of human activity, including education. According to UNESCO, AI has the potential to help tackle some of the toughest challenges in education today, including addressing inequalities in the way schooling is provided around the world and improving access to knowledge globally. However, it also creates challenges of its own – with effort required to ensure that the rollout of this highly disruptive technology is done in a way that is fair and doesn’t itself contribute to those inequalities.”

Remote, Online, and Hybrid Learning. “The global Covid-19 pandemic forced schools, universities, and course providers to develop the capabilities to deliver education at a distance. But even before this, a revolution was taking place in the domain of online learning, with massive online open courses (MOOCs) exploding in popularity. In schools, remote and online learning means that educators can reach students no matter how isolated their communities are. This could mark a huge step forward in providing equality of access to education in a world where nearly 270 million children do not go to school due to living in remote or rural locations.”

Not Just College. “In 2023, high schools will increase resources dedicated to preparing students for future paths that lead to places other than traditional college courses. Vocational and technical courses teaching a diverse range of skill sets are likely to become more popular as schools work with employers to develop new solutions to problems caused by the skills gap… As the demands of the new labor market shift away from seeking purely college-educated graduates and towards developing a workforce with the necessary skills, we can expect to see this change in the future.”

Virtual and Augmented Reality. “Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are two forms of extended reality (XR) that are becoming increasingly important within education systems. VR allows users to step into a virtual world, and there are a vast and growing number of “experiences” that let us do everything from step back in time and experiencing history through our own eyes to training for difficult and dangerous tasks such as conducting repairs in hazardous environments. Augmented reality still requires a device (e.g., a phone, tabled, or a headset) but is different from VR, as it involves superimposing computer-generated images onto what the user is actually seeing. The advantage here is that it can provide real-time information – for example, warning a trainee in a manufacturing environment that a piece of machinery may be dangerous. This is possible thanks to computer vision algorithms that analyze the images captured by cameras in the headset. In schools, AR textbooks are becoming available that contain images, and models that “come alive” when looked at through a smartphone camera, enabling students to get a closer, more in-depth look at anything from ancient Roman architecture to the inner workings of the human body.”

Soft Skills and STEM. “Soft skills include communication skills, teamworking, creative thinking, interpersonal problem-solving, relationship management, and conflict resolution. They will become increasingly important in a world where AI takes on many of our routine and mundane technical responsibilities. According to HR experts, soft skills are increasingly important to company success but far harder to measure and assess than “hard skills” such as mathematics, engineering, and computer programming. In 2023 we will see STEM education placing a growing emphasis on these vital skills, as well as increased efforts when it comes to measuring and assessing organizational capabilities in this area.”

 

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Unable to Save Changes in LSA Federated System

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When making a change via the Lawson Security Administrator (LSA) tool like adding or removing a role for example, saving the changes make get an error saying it cannot make the change.

 

“Unable to change object(RMidValue), change failed. Original Exception: null”

 

How can I resolve this?

 

Steps To Reproduce:

 

Duplicate this in a “Federated” setup, Lawson System Foundation (LSF) is federated with Landmark

 

You would need to have a lock situation with the write.lock file for the Infor Security Services (ISS) Search index (Lucene Index), example message from the LAWDIR/system/security_search.log:

 

org.apache.lucene.store.LockObtainFailedException: Lock obtain timed out: NativeFSLock@/lsfprod1/law/system/search/index/resource/DEFAULT/index_2/write.lock

 

 

 

at org.apache.lucene.store.Lock.obtain(Lock.java:84)

 

at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.init(IndexWriter.java:1060)

 

at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.<init>(IndexWriter.java:882)

 

at com.lawson.lawsec.search.lucene.LuceneIndexManager.<init>(LuceneIndexManager.java:45)

 

at com.lawson.lawsec.search.lucene.IndexWriterRegistry.initForTenant(IndexWriterRegistry.java:131)

 

at com.lawson.lawsec.search.lucene.IndexWriterRegistry.lookup(IndexWriterRegistry.java:196)

 

at com.lawson.lawsec.search.lucene.LuceneIndexServiceFactory.createLucenenServiceForRM(LuceneIndexServiceFactory.java:69)

 

at com.lawson.lawsec.search.lucene.LuceneIndexServiceFactory.createIndexServiceForRM(LuceneIndexServiceFactory.java:34)

 

at com.lawson.lawrm.search.RMIndexManager.updateIndex(RMIndexManager.java:244)

 

at com.lawson.lawsec.server.events.ServerRMDataAccessEvent.processRMResource(ServerRMDataAccessEvent.java:699)

 

at com.lawson.lawsec.server.events.ServerRMDataAccessEvent.processRMDataEvent(ServerRMDataAccessEvent.java:173)

 

at com.lawson.lawsec.server.events.ServerRMDataAccessEvent.process(ServerRMDataAccessEvent.java:92)

 

at com.lawson.lawsec.server.SecurityEventHandler.processEvent(SecurityEventHandler.java:634)

 

at com.lawson.lawsec.server.SecurityEventHandler.run(SecurityEventHandler.java:377)

 

 

 

Log into the LSA tool

 

Go to User Management

 

Go to User Maintenance

 

Search for a user

 

Right click on the user’s record and choose “Edit RM Information”

 

double click the Role field to show the roles available and assigned

 

add or remove a role from the list and hit finish.

 

Go to the Edit menu and choose “Change”

 

You should receive the error in the status bar of the LSA tool

 

“Unable to change object(RMidValue), change failed. Original Exception: null”

 

Work Around:

 

Try rebuilding the ISS Search Index, this is not guaranteed to work;

 

ssoconfig -c

 

enter your password for ssoconfig

 

option 20 –  Manage Search Index

 

option 2   –  Build Monitoring Full Index

 

When this finishes, then next;

 

option 1   –  Build Resources Full Index

 

This step may take a while, you can monitor the status of the rebuild in the LAWDIR/system/security_search.log file. When this finishes then;

 

option 4   –  Refresh Server Index

La Maison Camus Chooses Infor for Global Digital Transformation Plan

Recently, Maison Camus, one of the leading French spirits companies worldwide, has chosen Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage as part of their digital transformation plan. Per the press release, La Maison Camus aims to provide the cognac with a modern, structured tool to manage all activities from manufacturing to sales administration, including accounting and financial management, as well as procurement and stock management, all with increasingly demanding quality monitoring. Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage is a comprehensive enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution designed to help food and beverage companies meet changing customer expectations, better manage their supply chains and reduce waste. This solution, with the help of their partners Hetic3 proposing to have all the business and functional expertise in this sector, was decisive in the choice in terms of their ability to support the cognac manufacturer in optimizing and accelerating its activities, without sacrificing any of the level of quality demanded by its customers. The solution will be deployed in January 2024 in a multi-tenant cloud environment powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and will allow the 120 employees dedicated to the cognac activity to concentrate on higher value-added tasks.

 

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How Integration-As-A-Service Could Be The Missing Link For People-Centric Organizations

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems act as an organization’s central hub for data, transactions, logistics, and almost every aspect of your business. In modern people-centric organizations, lots of time and money is invested in ERP systems, yet even with all the manpower, there is still so much needed to get the most out of your systems. This is where automation can come in handy. More specifically – integration-as-a-service. Claus Jepsen, Forbes Councils Member and CTO at Unit4, shares an article explaining how much of a difference maker integration-as-a-service is for people-based organizations. According to Jepsen, Integration-as-a-service offers an opportunity to realize their ambitions of automation—and make time and cost savings. This can be especially time-consuming for professional services organizations (PSOs), says Jepsen. PSOs require a multitude of applications in their software ecosystem since no ERP provider delivers all required capabilities in one suite. ERP vendors can offer a suite that includes turnkey integration flows. Even better, they can offer “integration-as-a-service,” removing the burden of integration by not only delivering the integrations but also maintaining and updating your company’s whole ecosystem of integration flows on an ongoing basis. However, Jepsen points out, integration alone isn’t a full solution; it’s what you do with that data that really matters. Below are three ways, according to Jepsen’s industry insights, that you can utilize integration-as-a-service to create new value by offering new opportunities and greater efficiencies for PSOs.

  1. Cut down on manual work. “Automation ensures data consistency and accuracy, and it can free up your people to do the things that add real value to your organization. At a time when finding and retaining talent is a challenge, this could be a vital tool for attraction and recruitment.”
  2. Keep up with the pace of legislation. “It takes a highly knowledgeable team to take care of data privacy and cybersecurity, but that’s a costly investment. With integration-as-a-service, you can hand the job over to your supplier, saving yourself time and money.”
  3. Prevent disruption to business-critical systems. “It’s possible for your service to be disrupted whenever an application integrated with your ERP system updates its API or software. This can be a significant issue for any business-critical system. An ERP supplier that proactively monitors these updates will change its whole service in advance, preventing disruption for all customers.”

Jepsen concludes that integration-as-a-service could be the missing link within your people-based organization as it’s an effective way to realize the potential of your ERP and the potential of your employees talents across your organization.

 

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Amalthea Uses Infor Integrated AI Solution to Help Improve Cheese Quality & Yields, Build Customer Loyalty and Boost Sustainability

Infor recently announced that Amalthea, a leading global provider of goat cheese and organic cow cheese, is using Infor’s integrated artificial intelligence (AI) solution – Infor Coleman – to help with improving cheese quality and yields, build customer loyalty and boost sustainability. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Amalthea strives to make the most of the top-quality goat milk it receives from about 50 goat farmers who are members of the Amalthea Cooperative of Goat Farmers. Per the press release, Amalthea modernized its ERP with Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage in 2020 and has since leveraged the power of Infor’s cloud technology platform, Infor OS, to solve a critical milk yield business problem. This, according to the company, was previously hard to tackle because of outdated and disconnected applications, data silos and lack of time and resources. The modernization formed the building blocks to create AI-driven applications quickly and efficiently. Amalthea’s AI-driven yield deviation detection and explanation, a solution implemented in less than 90 days, is now fully automated – from data collection and processing to presentation. Additionally, Amalthea is utilizing Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage throughout its supply chain, from the reception of milk to the cheese warehouse. Further, Infor technology also has helped Amalthea improve the speed and efficiency of its financial closing process from weeks to days. Being in the cloud with Infor provides Amalthea a strong foundation for future growth, as data insights will play an increasingly important role in dairy production.

 

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How to Verify a user is set as a Ming.le user

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To verify a user is set as a Ming.le user, we will use the IsMingleUser column as an example to complete the steps below:

  1. Login and access the GEN data area
  2. Navigate to the Actor List
  3. Click Options (In the Web UI you will need to click the ellipsis first)
  4. Select Personalize
    1. If this is the first personalization you will need to click create
    2. If you are updating an existing personalization you will need to click update
  5. Click the + button > Add field
  6. Click the Search button
  7. Type ‘ism’ in the search field and hit enter
  8. Select IsMingleUser from the list
  9. Click OK
    1. If you wish to change the default label for the column, update the label box
  10. Check the box next to Updateable
    1. Depending on your LMK version, you may need to add the field and then edit it to check the box next to “Allow data to be updated in the list”
  11. Click OK

You are then returned to the actor list which will update and the IsMingleUser column will be added to the Actor List screen.

 

Note:

Other columns that you may want to add to assist with user provisioning include:

 

IsActorDisabled – make updateable

IsAckBodReq – make updateable

MingleId – make updateable

IsActorIFSDisabled

AccountLockout.IsAccountDisabled

 

Beginning with versions 2022.03.00..632 (MT) and 11.0.51.0.6489 (ST/OP) the following fields have been added as updateable to the default Actor List:

 

IsMingleUser

IsActorDisabled

IsActorIFSDisabled

IsAckBodReq

MingleId

A Look Into the Latest Technology with This Year’s Super Bowl Commercials

While CES takes the stage showcasing the latest innovation in January of each year to around 200,000 event goers, the Super Bowl commercial lineup takes a larger stage every February and introduces consumers to the latest technology we’ll see this year. Most notably lacking presence in this year’s line up of commercials in the technology space is crypto. This year’s technology line up went back to the basics of commercials 101 – celebrity cameos. Alicia Silverstone reprised her iconic Clueless role in a commercial for Rakuten – the online shopping savings mobile application. This was one of a handful of commercials showcasing mobile apps along with Uber One and Door Dash, reminding consumers that this is the year of technology that can be accessible at your fingertips. A helpful reminder that our phones have the power to keep us more connected, Google Pixel showcased the latest Pixel 7 with the help of familiar faces Amy Schumer, Doja Cat, and Giannis Antetokounmpo. Technology surely makes our lives easier, even in our professional lives. Adam Driver discovers the singularity that is Squarespace – a website that builds websites. This ‘meta’ concept showcases how easy it is for people to create online presence with a simple to use website builder.  Speaking of meta, Keke Palmer takes us on a journey to explain exactly what the meta verse is in Facebook’s own ad. Streaming services Tubi and Netflix made appearances as well, with the latter introducing their newest partnership – with the help of Will Ferrell – with General Motors. The streaming giant and auto manufacturer have banded together to promote the use to Electric Vehicles in Netflix original content and GM supporting more consumers switching to EVs. Lastly, it wouldn’t be a technology lineup without the tech giant Amazon. While a dog food commercial brought us to tears, another four legged star was featured in a sentimental commercial with the pup finding a forever family. The family makes him officially feel at home as they browse Amazon’s website for a new kennel.

 

Click here to view this year’s technology commercials on TechCrunch

How to find a Lawson user ID from an HR11 Employee ID

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Some Lawson Security systems are setup with a form of the user ID being a combination of the last name with middle initials / first name initials.

Something like DoeJ for John Doe. Often users get their names updated due to a marriage or divorce and their user ID never gets updated along with their last name.

  1. To find the user by employee number, we need to first go to HR11 and find the user by their new last name to uncover their Employee ID.
  2. For this example, let’s say we search John Doe and it returns an employee ID of 264
  3. Now open Lawson Security Administrator and go to User Management >> Manage Identities
  4. Once in Manage Identities under “Services”, select the employee identity service, ours is named TEST10_EMPLOYEE:
  5. Select employee = <employee ID> and click Add Criteria
  6. Once the criteria is added, Execute Query
  7. You’ll be put to the results tab and if that user exists in Lawson security, it will show as so:

This type of work is typically done by a Lawson technical resource with a Security Administrator background. Organizations often hire a Lawson consultant team who offer managed services at a fixed monthly rate. These Lawson teams have a wider range of expertise and knowledge and are ideal for larger organizations but also are great for smaller ones that don’t need a dedicated Lawson employee on-site. Nogalis does offer this as a service so feel free to reach out to us via our contact page.