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Enterprise web forms with processflow?

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Mike Schlenk
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2/9/2012 1:21 PM
I'm being asked about enterprise web forms for a significant move away from paper.  These processes are often not Lawson-related.  We do plenty with pflow (requisitions, invoices, notifications, queries, etc.) in Lawson but nothing that isn't Lawson-related.

My thought is that a 3rd party web forms application would be the best solution to get rid of paper for things like change control, access forms, time sheets, etc.  However, this type of tool could also integrate in to the Lawson portal and even talk in and out of Lawson if needed but not be restricted to Lawson use.

Does anyone use Lawson for general non-lawson web forms like I describe?  Does anyone use 3rd party product and could lend their experience?
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David Williams
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2/9/2012 2:19 PM
When I worked with the folks at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, they created their own web forms and some of them interacted with Lawson (they even added shortcuts within Mgr Self Service). If you don't have an internal web development team then you might have to look for a 3rd party solution. I don't know of one that has a link back into Lawson, however.

It you wanted to use Design Studio to create some custom forms you'd also have to create custom tables and add them to the Lawson database definition so your forms could write to them. This is possible but you'd still have to script what to do with the data in the tables.
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Mike Schlenk
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2/9/2012 2:32 PM
Thank you.  That helps to confirm my thoughts on the matter.

I'd like further examples from others as well.