Hi, We are working on the ESS implementation and we are trying to change the home page. We want to remove the Useful information box (that contains the hotkeys help and the Portal user help). Can someone know how to do it Thanks, Lorena.

I am looking for the best way to help a client automatically import data into lawson on a regular basis, for example monthly journal entries for various accounts.  What is the best way to do this  Is their an API that we can use, or can we connect directly to the lawson database via ODBC  Does lawson have any SDKs or kits for developers  What is best practice  Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

Hi, I need to replace spaces by _ in a string in 4GL. Does anyone know if Lawson provides any routine for this Example: Input: Boca Raton Output: Boca_Raton Thanks, Lorena

I need to understand if there are other organizations utilizing ESS for employee giving campaigns. Currently we have a form and process built, however, I would like to see if: 1. Anyone else is attempting this functionality  2. If anyone would be willing to demo what they have been able to set up. Thanks Brandon Clinton Fairview bclinto1fairview.org 612-672-6703

My users want me to build a screen that allows them update some type of records and others allowed for inquire only (list the record). I am not sure if this would be possible with an online update screen.

I have a custom batch report that has a detail section and a totals section for each employee.  I'd like to force the report to keep the employee detail and employee total sections together on the same page (i.e. don't page break between), but I can't figure out how to do that.  It seems like I've done this before, but I can't find it. Can anyone point me in the right direction Thanks!

Is there an API/routine tha calculates weekdays only

PA100HR went in recovery mode due to a duplicate record.  How can I find the duplicate record or data that's causing this issue other than animating the program  Errror message:  ** Creating .prt and .dtl files                 Processing PA100 (Action Update)                 File PROD9/PGEMPLOYEE.                 FindDBRec error is A duplicate record was added in deferred mode                 Additional Text is:                 FlushPendingInserts(LAWSON9.'PGEMPLOYEE')                 O...

I have a custom batch program that includes a standard footer section.   The section works great, except that it doesn't print on the last page.  I've tried using PERFORM 700-PRINT-STD-FTR just before the end of my code, but that doesn't seem to work.  I've also tried just calling it as a regular section, but that throws a nasty error.  I suppose could duplicate the section and make it a 'regular' section I could call directly, but that seems really clumsy. Is there some trick to do this  Th...

Good morning - our users requested the description display for Ben date 1, 2 and 3 (on PAEMPLOYEE) be changed in their portal view.  The decision was made to change the descriptions using design studio on HR11   - however, users make the bulk of changes using personnel actions, and we didn't think things through since the HR11 change doesn't flow over to the PA52 screens.  Is there a way to change the descriptions here, also Many thanks for any insight -

Has anyone got a solution for how to prevent employee's FICA Numbers from being displayed on results of Employee drill fields Whenever anyone drills around on the employee field from any screen, the displayed results include every employee's social security number. We would like to prevent this information form being so plainly and easily visible. I have found some articles and discussion threads referencing HR.sr. However, I am unfamiliar with this file and how to modify it. (i.e. what to r...

Hello! I'm a software developer for Woodmen of the World. A co-worker asked for my assistance with integrating a single sign-on solution in Lawson under the employee self-service for signing our employees into the United Way website. I created an HTML page that does the sign in work using Javascript. What I'd like to do is add some JS references to the page so that it can be served up on the same box as Lawson and use some kind of Javascript user object to get the employee number. I'm not ...

I recently cloned IC285 to ZC285 so we can make a customization to it and I notice that the some of the fields no longer have the search box next to them.  (ie Company, Item, Report Group). I do have 1 field with the search box but it doesn't displays any values. When I copied this program I did put it into another source folder where we put all our custom programs. Not sure if that's the issue or not. Any ideas what I might be missing Thanks!

I am trying to default the item type for the Requisition Special/Service screen (not RQ10.1). I believe the cose may be stored somewhere in the rqc.war file and was wondering if anyone was familiar on working with this form for customization. I simply need to default the Item Type field to read 'Amount Service' instead of 'Special'.

I'm trying to display, by default; the current date on a portal form using the scrgen form definition. ie. after the initial search box selection, the form would pop-up with the default values already populated. I've used various combinations, but can't seem to find one that works.  Can someone please share how to accomplish this

From reading the IOS manual, cruising this site and others have been able to put together the 'calls' to log into Lawson, perform an AP20 add transaction and log out...from the browser.   I need to be able to do the same from an outside application using VBScript.   The examples I've seen are for java, javascript.  Can't get it working from javascript or HTML, either, yet.  But really need to use VBScript.    Using Lawson 10, if that helps.

We are talking about setting up a plan which is only avalaible if the employee enrolled in a specific health plan. We've been told that stock ESS wouldn't be able to handle preventing the employee from seeing the plan, since normal avaliablity is based on groups, which wouldn't be updated till after enrollment was finished. How much of a headache are we looking at if we wanted to do a customization for this in ESS Naivity would lead me to think it would be a relatively simple thing.

Does anybody know how service records get created

I am new to the Lawson and AGS world, so bear with me if this is an obvious question. I researched on the web, and here at LawsonGuru, and have not been able to find an answer. I am attempting to login to Lawson via an AGS call, and am getting an error. In Fiddler, I see the call that is being made looks like this. User, Password and Server renamed to protect the innocent. _ssoUser=xxx&_ssoPass=yyy&_ssoLogin=Login&_action=LOGIN&_fromLoginPage=TRUE&_language=enus&_ssoOrigUrl=zzz The respon...

I am writing a custom program to apply caps to the available balance after payroll close. The program is updating the balances but I jus realized TAEMPTRANS might have to be updated as well.  How can I find out what other tables might have to be updated if updating balances in taeemaster Employee Mastr TAEEMASTER   Required                             TTR-COMPANY           -> TEM-COMPANY                             TTR-EMPLOYEE          -> TEM-EMPLOYEE                             TTR-PL...

I have SQL Server 2008 with database A on machine A. Another  SQL Server 2008 with Lawson S3 database on B. I want to link tables from the database on machine A into a database on machine B and Update the table A using 4GL program. Any help is Appreciated.

I have added a DME query to an ESS screen and am having issues with when I can use the variable. I define a globalvariable called EmployeeProcessLevel.   During one of the original Lawson functions, I call my function (QueryOEEmployeeProcessLevel) to get the data I need.  This dme function in turn calls the SetOEProcessLevel function which should set the global variable (EmployeeProcessLevel) I defined.  The issue is that when control passes back to the original non-modified function, it ...

After adding aditional text to the ESS Direct Deposit Add Account Pane a vertical scroll bar now appears. Is it possible though programming resize height of the Direct Deposit Add Account Pane I have attached a screenshot to this incident.

We are running LP140 for pay period end date 6/26/13. Employees enrolled in float holidays are not getting an accrual for pay period end date. Instead, they are accruing for a different pay period that's 6/21/16. That's not a valid pay period and going nuts trying to find out how this date is created .  it's only happening for employees enrolled in the float holiday plan.. I animated LP140 and no luck. Process thru date is 6/26 cycle date calculated in LP140 = 6/21

I wonder if anyone has experience using the WriteAttach functionality in Lawson I am making a call to WriteAttach, and am getting the following error that I can capture in Fiddler. TITLE=ERROR=Read of ORRules in  failed. ERRNBR=5016 Any ideas JD.