ESS Employee Phone Book

Are you on LSF9? If so you will want to grant everyone, through some security class/role, a few fields from the PAEMPLOYEE table. If you do encounter additional security issues you can open up the associated ESS files and search for the string "DME". This will tell you what additional tables/columns you need to grant.

Hi jay. Thanks for the reply.

Yes, we're on LSF9, along with 9.0.0.7 env & 9.0/MSP5 apps. I thnk the problem is that most of the fileds/files are limited to conditional access, driven by the employee's company/employee number combination. Can you please explain in more detail what you were saying about searching for the DME string to locate the files?

We think that we need to create a less restrictive role to allow them to see the data that is returned in a phone book search. However, our fear is that we don't want to open a can of worms where it is allowing them greater acccess through HR11, etc. as a result of our change.

Therefore, we were hoping others may have already done this and woudl be able to share what limited files we'd need to grant access to.

Thanks!

The ESS files should be located under

<LSFWEB>.../web/lawson/xhrnet

Or for benefits related ESS functionality

<LSFWEB>.../web/lawson/xbnnet

I think the file you are interested in is phonebook.htm or something like that.

Yes I think you will want to create a seperate ESS/MSS security role and classes for this.

1. For ESS forms that do updates to data you will be interested in AGS calls and security associated to forms.
2. For ESS forms that do inquiry you will be interested in DME calls and security associated to files.

Quite a few ESS forms both inquire on data and also update data. For forms that do both inquiry and update they will have both DME and AGS calls.

A usefull way to locate the code behind a ESS form is to go in and edit the bookmark. Once you are in editing the bookmark it should show you the path to the form. You can cancel the edit once you have viewed the path to the ESS form you are interested in.

On a related topic if you decide to make customizations to ESS forms it is a good idea to check them into a source control system so you can track what modifications are done. You will need to re-apply any customization if you upgrade or patch ESS/MSS.

One note - we got it to work fine for the majority of our users that are ESS users only since they are using Lawson Security, but for the people still on LAUA, the phone book does not work for them since we can't give them multiple roles in laua. If they are not HR related users, i.e. Procurement, etc. it only displays their own record.

Thanks Lisa. Would you be able to share the setup of the role you use to accomplish this in Lawson Security?

I just noticed your request. Do you still need some info regarding the role?