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October 2024

October 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

"In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path."

-- Jodi Picoult

Trending Topics

Spreadsheet Designer Error "Unknown state selection"

I am looking for assistance, I am trying to upload new Articles and Terms & Conditions in my TEST environment. I was able to upload and create the Article; however, when I try to upload the Term & Condition for that Article, I am getting an error "Unknown state selection" for my description. I am able to create it manually, just not through spreadsheet designer. I am unable to locate anything specific on this error on the web and was hoping someone can provide me with some guidance. Read More

Adding Std Comments to all PO's

Does anyone know of a way to get trailing comments on all POs? I know you can us the PO120, but for most POs the buyers will do an issue final so the PO120 doesn't add the comments to these POs. Is there a way to add by Vendor or Requesting location? Read More

Missing PO info

We are experiencing an issue where freight account #'s are not populating on po's sent to vendors. I was wondering if anyone is aware of any possible root causes? One person suggested maybe it's a revision situation and the freight info is dropping off on a revised po...still looking into all of our data to see if that could be the issue.

I'm not sure if it's related or not...but I've also seen our GHX metatrade orders converted to email dropping the net terms info...I've validated that the po had net terms upon transmission but the final copy from the vendor had this field empty. Any suggestions on this? I have an open ticket with GHX....but maybe they are related?? Read More

Updating Pars in IC81.2 - Field Replenish from Location

Can anyone advise what the easiest way to update the Par replenish from location(IC81.2)? We have created a new location and need to update the IC81.2 records from old to new. Have been trying to use the upload wizard but not been very successful. I have previously added the record but have not been able to change it? If anyone has a uwf query and they can share it that would be great. Read More

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Sincerely,

John Henley

Decision Analytics

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