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August 2024

August 2024

Thought-Provoking Commentary for the Lawson Software Community

Welcome to the latest issue of The LawsonGuru Letter, a free newsletter providing provocative commentary on issues important to the Lawson Software community. The LawsonGuru Letter is published by--and is solely the opinion of--John Henley of Decision Analytics.

Quote of the Issue

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

-- Groucho Marx

Trending Topics

Benefit change/termination rules

Can old benefit change/termination rules be deleted (BN16.3 and BN16.4) without harm? We have a number of them especially on the benefit plans that keep changing (one year it is next pay period the next it is end of month etc.). Read More

WFWORKUNIT table, WF-STATUS field value set

Any documentation I can find has values for this field as 01 thru 08, and 29. Does anyone have an updated list of values? I'm seeing values of 25, 26, 27 and 28. Read More

Changing the orgs email domain

We're changing our email addresses across the organization from .org to .gov. Any tips or tricks in the S3 world that I need to know about to get this done? Read More

Converting UTC Date to EST Date using Javascript

I'm looking for how others are performing a conversion of a UTC Date (or any time zone date) to EST Date in JavaScript. The requirement is to have a date/time specifically in EST timezone to write to a user business class/field. I'm developing a IPA in Cloudsuite and at this time we are unable to have the Default Corporate or System time zone changed to EST. Read More

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Sincerely,

John Henley

Decision Analytics

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