Tag Archives: MI

Validating M3 panels using JScript and MI programs before a request

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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 →

Using a M3 List Api for a single hit

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For M3 we have different APIs, most used are probably the list and get APIs. But what if you have a mashup and what you need is in a list API? Well you could just as well use the list API and bind to the first returned item. Or in fact you configure the MIDataService to only return the first result in the list.

Assuming there is an exact match you will get the expected data back. Say that you want to list customers and you pass in Infor, if infor isn’t a valid customer the list API will return whatever customer that comes after alphabetically.

My example will have an entry field for the customer to search for and a button that will trigger the List Event. In a real scenario this would probably be replaced with an event from a standard M3 form, like a CurrentItemChanged on a list or a detail form. Continue reading →

Testing M3 APIs

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When you work with M3 APIs there are a few very useful resources available, one of them is MITest. MITest has been around for a while and it looks like this:

In Lawson Smart Office 9.1.3 we introduced a new way to call APIs using a grid application called MI-API-WS. This application uses the API repository meta data in a way we have not used it before. Continue reading →