Image Now and Smart Office Integration

Jeremy,

ImageNow have a very robust API. using LSO SDK to customize your LSO forms you can integrate the image attachment function to any form in LSO. Not sure what your exact process is but this shouldnt be too difficult.

hth
Matt

Hi Jeremy,

To echo Matt's comments, LSO scripting and the SDK will allow you to create an infinite number of customizations to your forms, including linking to third party systems. There are different ways to go about it, but your exact scenario is fairly straight forward. If you can construct the URL to your instance of Image Now, it's quite easy. After that you can add a shortcut to a form (i.e. AP20/90) that will do something like pass a vendor and invoice # to Image Now and display the image of the invoice. You can even use this link in a List Driven form, InfoBrowser, or a Mashup.

I have a real-life example I can email you if you'd like.  For some reason most of the link is being chopped off of this message when I try to post.  Please contact me at patrick.dowd@infor.com if you'd like an example.

 

Pat

Thank you for the feedback.
Patrick: I actually took an LBI class that you taught about a year and a half ago! Good to hear from you!
What I'm needing is to pass the data from Lawson to the properties of a document in ImageNow that doesn't have any document keys yet. I would be linking the document.

For example: If we get a confirmation for a PO from a vendor, we would scan that document into ImageNow. I would then pull up the PO in PO20.1 I then need to get the data like company number, vendor number, and PO number into the correct document keys for the new ImageNow document.

I've seen the solution for linking to the document from LSO AFTER the document has been populated with the keys.

Does that explain it better?

It should still be generally the same practice. Its all about the action that you call in the ImageNow URL. Here is an example of one I did for AP90 in LSO that also worked in RQC. This URL can be attached to a link or button, whatever is most convenient:

http://imagnowserver/webn...tion=capture&drawer=&doctype=Requisition&folder=&tab=&field3=&field5=

Obviously your settings for ImageNow are going to be different but once you have all these set up you should be able to find your scan and attach it to the desired PO.

Same syntax as before but a lot messier with LSO Scripting, but doable

I am having issue with getting to the image now from LSO. The problem comes with the workstation trying to install java and even that java gets installed properly ( on the second try we are getting message that software already installed) we are getting that message again and again. Basically we cannot pass it. we have no problem with utilizing the ImageNow connection from portal on that workstation or other workstations LSO's -ImageNow connections. I wonder if anyone has seen that.

This thread is old but I thought I'd share my experience. I just got done implementing lso to imagenow jscript code that will fill keys in the workflow window (in actual image now application, not webnow) ... We used the webnow links as described above for document viewing in portal but an above post was correct, the perceptive COM API will let you pass pretty much anything you want. The smart office jscript and imagenow COM API will give you what you're looking for.