In case you’re thinking about moving from the Smart Office rich client to the browser based H5 client there’s a small tool that will help you bring along H5 applicable Smart Office Links v10.1.0 and onward. The tool is a local Smart Office application to be installed and run by a Smart Office administrator. It will create a zip file intended to be imported with the H5 administration tool.

You can find the tool named INFOR.ISOH5LETool.lawsonapp in the Smart Office delivery package under the Additional Files folder.

Preparing to do the export of the Smart Office links

H5 links are only global unlike Smart Office that also support private user links, so ensure that all users share the links to be part of the export before performing the operation. The H5 links also requires a specific source to be defined e g MMS001/MMS001BC. The links with ./. as source will be excluded from export.

Install the tool Smart Office

Launch Smart Office and select My Local Applications menu item on the Smart Office Canvas. Press the Install button, navigate and select the INFOR.ISOH5LETool.lawsonapp in the file browser dialog. Restart the Smart Office client.
Note that it’s also here you uninstall the tool when the export is finished.

Perform the export of the H5 compatible links

Launch Smart Office and launch any M3 transaction e g MMS001 to ensure everything is running and to get the MUA version number. Launch the tool by pressing CTRL+R on the keyboard and type in the focused Start field:

isoh5://linkexport

The tool will appear and show the links compatible with H5. Now you select the links to convert and export. Finish by pressing the Export button and select a location to store the created zip file. Close the tool and Smart Office.

Import the zip file with links into H5

Launch the H5 client and select Administration Tools and Import of Document Links. Press Upload and select the zip file containing the links. Press Import and then restart the server. Done!