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September 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

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

-- Confucius

Trending Topics

Managing List Views

I have list views in both PO13.3 and IC11 that are causing issues and I need to delete them, but not sure how. I opened Manage View, but not sure how to proceed with deleting. Tried to google Infor Lawson, but did not get a KB article. Please see the attachment. Thank you. Read More

Dbimport - only importing 1st record of file

In FSM Cloudsuite, I've got a file containing 3 csv records, with a header consisting of the field names for the business class I want to run dbimport on. I want to import into PayablesInvoiceImport in FSM Cloudsuite. The dbimport runs OK but it only imports the very first row of the file and the other two records are not imported. There is no log file or error file indicating why dbimport disregarding the other two records in the file. Read More

How does everyone charge an item to same dept?

We have 3 items that need to be charged to the lab no matter who orders the items. The issue we have is that our POs all come out of company 1000 and our depts are all out of 1300. So I can't put the issue account in as the Lab because that cost center doesn't exist in company 1000. Just was wondering how other companies deal with this issue. Read More

this.bean is null

Getting this error when my IPA gets to the second iteration of a Landmark Transaction. I am iterating through 6 records and it only does it on the second pass. Error executing iteration loop java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "com.lawson.bpm.landmark.LandmarkAdapter.getPageSize()" because "this.bean" is null Read More

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John Henley

Decision Analytics

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