The Inline personalizations functionality in M3 Mashups can be used to deploy personalizations as part of a Mashup. Instead of relying on the personalizations for the regular programs you can create custom personalizations that are only used in Mashups and that do not affect the other personalizations.
Support for inline personalizations was added in Smart Office version 10.0.5.0 but there have been some fixes so this functionality should only be used with Smart Office 10.0.5.1 or later.
Almost every M3 script needs to get values from the panel it is running on at some point and there are quite a few different ways to accomplish this. The script might need the value of a specific TextBox, the value of a cell on the selected list row or it might need to know what the name of the current program is. These are just a few examples and there are many more. This post will show how to get values from M3 panels in the most common scenarios.
Support for custom list templates in M3 Mashups was added in Smart Office version 10.0.3. The requirement was to be able to display lists in a more compact way, similar to a card view list. The settings dialog for the M3 ListPanel control now have the option to choose two different List styles called Standard and Template. The Template List style lets you to create a custom list template that defines how the list rows are displayed in the list. Continue reading
A script requirement we recently heard of was to be able to show tooltips on cells in a M3 list and that the tooltip value should be retrieved using a MI-program. The specific requirement was to get the user name for list columns that contains M3 user IDs. The idea is to use this in M3 lists where the user ID is shown in a column but the user name is not part of the list. Continue reading
This post describes the M3 Bookmark URI syntax that is used in MForms. Knowing the bookmark URI syntax is important when generating URIs within Smart Office using scripts or in other scenarios such as external applications that links to Smart Office with task parameters that contains a bookmark URI. Continue reading
Using M3 language constants in JScript is a requirement that has been received from several sources recently. In Mashups it has been possible to use M3 constants and messages for some time using the markup extension MForms.Mashup.ConstantExtension. JScript developers however have been out of luck and have had to use other means of translating texts in scripts that targets more than one language. Continue reading
In Smart Office 10.0.4 a new Mashup control was added that adds basic printing supports to Mashups. Before you get too excited it should be noted that this functionality is more like print screen and it does not support pagination or output formatting. The new PrintControl supports printing of parts of the Mashup or the entire Mashup window. The output can be sent to a printer, a print preview window or to a file. Continue reading
Since there is no way to debug a JScript in LSO developers have to use other means to find errors. This can include writing to the debug console in the Script Tool, writing to the Smart Office log file or the classic, showing dialog boxes.
In many cases you want to write both to the debug console for development purposes and to the log file for troubleshooting deployed scripts. One way to solve this is to create your own wrapper functions that does both these things and some of you have probably done this already. To make logging a bit easier from JScript we have added some new methods and properties to the ScriptDebugConsole class. First I will describe how a log wrapper function might be implemented and then how the new API methods can be used to remove the need for a wrapper function. Continue reading
This post describes some of things you need to be aware of when building a Mashup using bookmarks that have dates as part of the primary key. The first part is a rather long discussion of why things are the way they are but if you’re just interested in how to get things working you can skip this and jump to the second part directly. Continue reading
The goal of this post is to show how JScript and Mashups can be used to extend the browse functionality in M3. The idea is simple, instead of using the M3 Browse dialog to find a field value on a panel a custom built Mashup is used instead. The Mashup can use M3 panels with Enterprise Search, data services and all the other Mashup controls to improve the browse experience for the user.
The solution consists of two parts, a generic JScript and one or more browse Mashups. The browse Mashup is started using a button or a keyboard shortcut, the user selects something in the Mashup and then one or more values from the Mashup are used to update fields on the panel. The rest of the post will cover a simple browse Mashup and the important parts of the JScript. Continue reading
The scenario for this post is to be able to verify something on a panel in a M3 program before a request is submitted to the M3 BE server. The validation in the example will be made using a MI program that is called asynchronously. The example is not a realistic case but it is easy to test and can be modified and generalized for real business cases. Note that the script is just an example and not intended for production use. Continue reading
In Lawson Smart Office (LSO) version 10.0.0 two generic URI parameters were added to support modal tasks. The requirement was to be able to launch any LSO URI in a modal window.
A modal window is a child window that requires users to interact with it before they can return to operating the parent application (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_window
). There are many scenarios where this could be useful (if a modal behavior is desired) such as Mashups, personalized links, navigator links, canvas shortcuts etc. Continue reading
