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Article Series on Design Studio, Part 5: Adding JavaScript to Your Portal Forms

In this article, we dig deeper into Lawson Design Studio, and explore the use of JavaScript to enhance your Lawson forms.

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ThomasHow to delete an orphan time record with MS Add-ins? <br />Only visible when dumping the TimeRecord table with SQL. Unable to write with SQL

2 months ago

    John Henleyreplied to: RE: More.... ic81.2

    Hi &nbsp;@Joel Tooley&nbsp;! <br /> <br />When you create an upload against IC81.1, there are IC81.2 fields on it including the vendor.&nbsp; <br /> <br />This is from th...

    2 months ago

    DeannaPcreated the topic: Lawson Security Admin (LSA) - Securing Print Manager to self only

    Looking for someone who would be willing to share their conditional code in LSA for securing the print manager to &quot;self&quot; so a back-office us...

    4 months ago

    adnan512created the topic: Retrieving GUID from InforOS

    Hello everyone, I was wondering if there is a way to retrieve GUID from InforOS.

    7/25/2025

    John Henleyreplied to: RE: Self-Serve Customization and Modification of home page

    Hi Upasana, ESS is hand-coded HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. There is no "home page" for all of ESS as it is installed as tasks within Lawson Portal. Some...

    6/23/2025

    John Henleyreplied to: RE: Lawson ESS customization

    Duplicate. See https://www.lawsonguru.co...cation-of-home-page/

    6/23/2025

    Upasana Mehracreated the topic: Lawson ESS customization

    I want to add new links and customize the ESS (self-serve). Also need to change few fonts and highlight some upcoming changes on the home page of self...

    6/23/2025

    John Henleyreplied to: RE: Securing forms and programs that use Company Group

    No, I don't have an example of doing that.

    6/20/2025

    leshow does security location works in HR11 Work Tab

    6/19/2025

      Brianreplied to: RE: Securing forms and programs that use Company Group

      Would you happen to have an example? The users have created about 125 company groups...I would think you would have to evaluate the selected group, w...

      6/18/2025

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