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The Infor LX User Group (LXUG) is an independent user group recognized by Infor as the official voice of the LX software user community. The LXUG is dedicated to maximizing the benefits of the use of all LX products, tools, and services for the user community.

Mission and Purpose:

o Partne Read more...r with Infor in developing a vision for the LX Software
o Provide a forum for effective communication of information between clients, user groups, affiliates, and Infor
o Provide networking opportunities and the exchange of ideas and strategies among LX User Groups, clients, and Infor
o Enhance user understanding of LX products, services, related technologies, third-party business partners, and future direction
o Provide a communication channel to disseminate new and other information to LX user community
o Give LX users a collective voice to articulate issues
o Provide Infor, via this group, with input and feedback relative to the LX suite of offerings
o Provide representation to Infor Global User Group Advisory Board
o Actively participate with INFOR to identify initiatives and bring about changes resulting in measurable process and product improvements

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Infor Concierge
Infor Customer Portal
inPower 2024 site (presentations)

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Loring Kaveney
Michael Eck
Phil Catlin
Yvonne Cheslog

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Andrews Carl
anglin Curt
Angst Levi
Antoon Robert
Armitage Sue
Arubandala Srinivasa Reddy
Ayala Arturo
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Tue, December, 17th 2024
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Gabriel Dunn Infor LX User Group
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How to Query IDF > Integrator > Business Objects Information ?

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LX
Powerlink

Is there a way to query the system tables for IDF PowerLink Business Objects so I can get information like: File name, Created by, Changed by, Change Date etc... ?

We have PROD (AA) and TEST (CC) environments, and I would like to easily run Compare queries between them to find differences.

LX
Powerlink
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Nick Olson
Look in AMALIBA and AMALIBC and start querying the files, chances are what you are looking for will reside in one or multiple of the customization files located within.
Gabriel Dunn
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I did search through those libraries, and AMFLIBA (files) last week, but so far, haven't found the information.
David Rapacz
Gabriel, have you considered creating a new View for the Business Object list from Enterprise Integrator. The default view can be copied and then you can add fields like 'Changed by' and 'Changed Date'. You can then export this to a spreadsheet from both environments for comparison.
Gabriel Dunn
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Thanks, I will try that.
Gabriel Dunn
David, I think that gives us what we need. I exported to a SQL table and can query the differences.
Thanks
Thu, October, 31st 2024
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Mark Larson Infor LX User Group
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Have you seen the LXLOG file in 8.4.1 and 8.4.2? You can use the IDF Events Log or User Activity Events Log objects to view the content. If you have custom programs added to your LX environment, then you can have your programs write to the log also. The LX Logic Guide (https://docs.infor.com/lx/multi/en-us/installtechlist/Infor%20LX%20Logic%20Guide.pdf) has been updated with  Read more...Appendix C to provide instructions for writing to the log file. Check it out.

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Nick Olson
Awesome stuff here, thanks Mark!
Mon, October, 21st 2024
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Jon Segasture Infor LX User Group
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Does anyone know how you can increase the timeout for an IDF session that is running within SiWA? I have looked all over for it and can't find it. Thanks.
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David Rapacz Infor LX User Group
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If you missed the WebTop 4.8 session at inPOWER, we introduced how we were able to add the Delivery Date field to the PO Lines Maintenance screen in 8.4.2 without sacrificing the number of PO lines that could be displayed. In fact, we demonstrated how the number of lines could even be expanded, sorted, and filtered. Plus, you can also rearrange the columns.

We would love to hear from customers on what other fields you would like to see added to the PO Lines Maintenance screen to  Read more...streamline PO creation and maintenance. Please share your thoughts.
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Tue, October, 1st 2024
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David Rapacz Infor LX User Group
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It was great seeing so many of our customers at inPOWER last week. What a great week it was. The week was filled with LX, IDF, IBM, and so many other great partner sessions.

I was amazed to see the connections people made and the ideas they shared over lunch and other networking times. This is truly an outstanding user community, and I am honored to be part of it.

If you attended inPOWER and learned something new or want to share your experience, please do so. This  Read more...will help to make inPOWER 2025 to be even better!

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Mon, September, 30th 2024
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Sue Buchelt - Shared w/ Group: Infor LX User Group
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Thank you for joining Crossroads RMC sessions during inPower 2024! It was a pleasure to connect with all of you and share insights on IDF for LX, AI-Powered Sales Portal for IBMi, Patch Management, and Leveraging Infor’s Tools for System Integration. We hope you found the discussions valuable and left with actionable takeaways to apply to your projects.

If you have any further questions, need clarification on any of the topics we covered, or simply want to continue the  Read more...conversation, please don't hesitate to reach out. We're always here to support your journey with Infor solutions and ERP development

Crossroads RMC
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Fri, September, 13th 2024
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Tim Baker Infor LX User Group
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Has anyone used the IFS (Integrated File System) as a Shared Folder to connect to the ION - OS Server? If so, could you please share the connection information and any relevant details that might help?

Your assistance is greatly appreciated!
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Michael Raber
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Hi Tim, I asked my technical consultant and this is was he said (I hope it helps, if not, please let me know): FileConnection Point with transfer protocol FTP (active). It is important to start the path with a leading \ like \Test\input. Hope it helps. Regards Michael
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Michael Eck Infor LX User Group
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A reminder that inPower 2024 is rapidly approaching!

September 23 through September 26, 2024 in Pewaukee, Wisconsin (20 minutes from Milwaukee).
The premier Infor LX, XA, and System 21 User Group conference will be even bigger and more impactful in 2024 and you won’t want to miss it! inPOWER will provide over 100+ inspiring sessions delivered by Infor, partners, and power users. We are looking forward to an amazing event and hope you will join us for education,  Read more...networking, entertainment, and FUN!


https://ibmi.workoutloud.com/Event/inpower-2024 Show less...
inPOWER 2024
ibmi.workoutloud.com inPOWER 2024 MeetingDates: September 23-26.  Monday for the Technical Enterprise Integrator Sessions,  Tuesday through Thursday morning for inPOWER.Lo...
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Loring Kaveney
Fantastic post! See you there😀
David Rapacz
There is still time to register for this fantastic event. If you have never attended inPOWER, please consider doing so. Customers who have attended in the past prove to get more value out of their LX investment. If you have any questions, please contact me at david.rapacz@infor.com.
David Rapacz
We are counting down to inPOWER 2024. Just day days until this amazing event. I hope to see many of you there. There is still time to register if you want the opportunity to collaborate with your peers and learn how to get more value out of your ERP investment.
Thu, September, 5th 2024
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Tracy Johnson Infor LX User Group
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Does anyone have experience creating a purchasing approval workflow with multiple levels and attachments?

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LX
Workflow

We have a manual process where we are allowing team members to create purchase requisitions in excel. Then they pass this sheet along to have it approved through the different levels. Accounting reviews the account codes, etc. After all of this, it is then passed along to our Purchasing department who keys the req and converts it into a Purchase Order. Afterwards, we have custom coding that sends this to the vendor. The volume is 200-300 new reqs per week.
We would like a seamless  Read more...process within LX that does not require all of the manual work. While we are currently working on a project to implement IDF and WebTop, we are currently 100% green screen LX version 8.3.5. Any advice on how other companies has handled this would be greatly appreciated. Show less...
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Michael Raber
We have build that for several customers (not LX, but XA) and I will talk about that at the EUIG meeting in Milwaukee. Please contact me directly (michael.raber@mjr.gmbh) for further informations (also from a technical point of view).
Loring Kaveney
@michaelraber😉 Thank you for your fast response and your strong community Partnership!
Jon Segasture
We too would like to have a PO approval workflow in IDF, but it's tricky because the next approver can be determined on which way the wind is blowing. After it's approved though, we use LX Connector to create Purchase Orders from a maintenance system, it's a pretty simple BOD to implement. After the PO is generated, the acknowledgement is automatically emailed to the vendor.
Phil Catlin
Tracy.. I'd be interested as well! We need 2 signatures, and people have varying purchase approval limits that are daily limits, (so once they've requisitioned OR approved their daily limit they are out of the approval path). We handle it manually as well for now.
Tracy Johnson
@jonsegasture Thank you for the update. Fortunately we have a pretty straightforward delegation list. But it is multiple levels depending on the dollar value. In addition, the approvals are sequential and not concurrent. At the moment, when the piece of paper has been walked around, entered in LX and converted to a req - we then are able to send it to the vendor. I'll look into what you guys are doing with LX Connector to see  Read more...if that can help that portion of our process. Show less...
Tracy Johnson
@philcatlin I see an opportunity for a solution that could help multiple companies! I'll keep everyone informed as we push through this. Currently we use Intellichief for invoice approval. Once it is approved, we then send the information back to LX. We had reached out to them for this portion - since it seemed very similar in my mind with the workflow approvals. However, it seems that they have not done this previously for the  Read more...purchase requisition approval process. So we hit a dead end with them as well. Show less...
Carl Brown
Hi Tracy (all),

Cobwebb has built a PO Requisitions Workflow using Tungsten TotalAgility. We have deployed this for a number of Infor System21 customers, but it's an ERP agnostic solution, so there is no reason why we could not integrate this to LX. There's a short taster video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4wdmcGGVHY.
Tracy Johnson
Thank you @carlbrown. I'll watch the video to learn more.
David Rapacz
We would recommend using Infor OS Workflow capabilities for this purpose. IDF applications can play a role in a workflow process, but IDF does not provide Workflow as a solution. There are some presentations in the 'Files' library on WOL that may provide some insight:

https://ibmi.workoutloud.com/CloudDownload/74474
 Read more... https://ibmi.workoutloud.com/CloudDownload/74499

Also, please feel free to reach out to me at david.rapacz@infor.com for further information.
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Tracy Johnson
Thank you so much @davidrapacz. I appreciate the files. I thought I had remembered seeing this solution last year at inPower but I couldn't remember the details. I'll dig in deeper and see what direction we want to go in.
Fri, July, 26th 2024
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Mark Larson Infor LX User Group
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The latest LX 8.4.2 enhancements were announced in case you aren't following these KBs.

BMRTOOLS KB published
https://customerportal.infor.com/csmcore?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB3529435

Release Notes Updated and published
 Read more... https://customerportal.infor.com/csmcore?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB2295846

Bulletin KB Updated
https://customerportal.infor.com/csmcore?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1397381

Worth a quick review. Show less...
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David Rapacz
Please note that there is now a new tool to streamline the BMR installation process. I encourage all LX customers to review these new features and tools documented in these KB articles.
Marcel Cortilla
Thank you ! I will have a look 😀

Regards,
Marcel
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Marcel Cortilla Infor LX User Group
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Article:

LX 8.3.5 Sources question

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LX
sources

Hello, I downloaded the ISO image for the LX 8.3.5 version sources, and it contained several SAVF files, one per version: ERPLX831S, ERPLX832S, ERPLX833S, ERPLX834S and ERPLX835S.

Each of them, when restored, are actually a library, with all the source files (QRPGLESRC, QDDSSRC, etc), for each version.
I guess that even the ISO image is for LX 8.3.5, it contains those 5 libraries and sources because the ones for example in ERPLX831S are the ones that have not changed since  Read more...that version, same for ERPLX832S, etc. Is this assumption correct ?

I am missing, however, many source members, for exemple the one for APH physical file DDS, the CLD501D1 RPGLE program, and many others.
Where can I download all those missing ones from ?

Thanks,
Marcel

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Mark Larson
Marcel, Objects and source that have not changed since base 8.3.0 would have been delivered on the base LX 8.3.0 ISOs.
Marcel Cortilla
Thank you very much Mark for your reply, but where can I download the base LX 8.3.0 ISO from ? I am not able to find it.
Fri, July, 19th 2024
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Jon Segasture Infor LX User Group
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I couldn't resist.
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Nick Olson - Shared w/ Group: Infor LX User Group
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Consider joining us for a Dive into IDF for LX.
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Tue, June, 18th 2024
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Mark Larson Infor LX User Group
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Article:

Have you ever wondered which BMRs you have installed in your environment, or what new BMRs Infor has passed that you don't have but maybe should?

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LX

There is a new KB with instructions on how to find those answers and more. Each BMR Explosion comes with file ISALXOBJ. It contains the latest information about all passed BMRs and connects them to your objects via the user defined attribute. Take a look at https://inforsaas.service-now.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB3513890.
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Michael Eck
@marklarson: The link you posted takes me to a ServiceNow site that I don't have access to. On the Infor Customer Portal, that KB is available here:
https://customerportal.infor.com/csmcore?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB3513890
Ronda Garbin
I was able to search the KB on the Customer Portal, thanks for that!
Tue, June, 4th 2024
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Phil Catlin Infor LX User Group
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Article:

Has anyone implemented the ProcessSupplierInvoice BOD?

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LX
ION

Looking at the BOD, the tax codes are ALL at the header level. How do you specify if 1 or more lines is either at a different rate or tax exempt?
LX
ION
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Phil Catlin
I also just found out that at adapter version 2.3 (LX version 8.3.5) there's no access to the User Fields on ACP400D4-01, (that's only available in version 3.0/LX 8.4.x) so that pretty much means it's not going to work for us at any rate.

It appears that the only use case is for items on an LX purchase order, and even then I'm not sure how you go about expensing those correctly given that you can't specify a GL account/alias or override the tax rate.

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Jon Segasture
Unfortunately we came across the same limitations when we attempted to use it a few years ago and ended up using the LX Connector Invoice BOD.

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