Tag Archives: Roles

Connecting a Mashup to a role or user in 10.0.5

In Smart Office 10.0.5 we introduced support for connecting Mashups to roles. This is something that we should have implemented from day one but there are a few reasons why we haven’t. First of all Smart Office is a platform for different applications, we did not want to create yet another custom tool where you manage and create LSO roles. M3 have their roles, S3 has there roles, roles are related to Security and there is another team who handles Security. We were pushing for a common solution for Lawson. The Smart Office server has moved to the Grid (9.1.3).

Authentication is handled by the Session Provider in the grid and in the grid it is possible to connect users to roles. The session provider can be connected to for example IFS, Infor Federated Services, were you set up claims and claim rules. Continue reading →

Enabling Process Flow (or other applications) for a group of users

In Smart Office you can work in a number of different applications, S3, M3, LBI, LPA the abbreviations goes on and on :-). Last week I got this question. Our customer A has 3000 M3 users but not so many LPA (Process Flow) users. Is there a way to aviod this inbasket error message for existing M3 users but non existing LPA users? There are different ways to enabled/disable applications and in this post I’ll cover all the options that are availble to you. This post applies to all versions of Smart Office and Smart client but the details on how to do the configurations will differ in early versions (pre 10.0.4). Continue reading →