I need to establish a software change control procedure for the release of Lawson process flows into Production. Unfortunately, a Lawson process flow could consist of customized triggers written through Design Studio or COBOL, the enabling of services, creation of tasks, and the upload of a PF into the server. The idea of creating a second process flow that will act as the Installer for the first process flow could create the tasks and service criteria but still can’t release the entire PF packa...

When I query the persaction table with pf and retrieve a record for a manager self service pay rate value all I get is this inside the pf variable:  000000000024900000  I have tried trimming, rounding, and substringing.  Has anyone else accomplished transforming this value into a readable state inside pf

I've developed an approval/return flow for Requisition Lines. However I'm noticing that if I Unrelease just one single line in the flow (using AGS on RQ13.2) it will actually unrelease ALL of the lines, which I think is incorrect. It should only unrelease a single line..... Anyone else seeing this Windows, on 9.0.1.5 apps.

I have a Landmark Pflow, and I'd like to determine the hostname and OS at runtime.  I figure there are probably JavaScript functions to do this, but I can't get anything to work. Any ideas or suggestions  Thanks!

Has come across this situation I have a PF that needs to run on Monday every two weeks. I know that using the PF Scheduler I can schedule the PF to run ever Monday (weekly) but not every two weeks (biweekly). Is it possible to run a PF from a Windows command prompt My thoughts are that I could use the Windows Task Scheduler to run the PF every Monday biweekly.

The object is to send email noticiation on status changes on the PA52. So I found the documentation on Lawson (article 557613) and I have setup the the Service, Service Variables, Service Criteria and the Service Process. I've tested it and the WorkUnit status is Process Completed. It returns correct data in the String Key and I see that is is being wriiten to the WF table. Now, how do I incorporate this data into the actual ProcessFlow Do I just look into the WorkUnit table How do I just p...

I want to run a flow every hour to send an email to anyone that has updated their pending benefits (bnben) since the last time the flow ran. I don't really see any time functions to use for this comparison.  I was just going to grab the system time and subtract one, but someone has a better idea - I'm open. TIA, Karen

I have a very simple ProcessFlow that is launched from AP20.1 when a record it added and is triggered by the Lawson service 'NoRcptInPool'.  The values passed for the workunit variables include API_VENDOR and API_INVOICE.  The value for the vendor is correct, but it is also the value being passed for the invoice.  I have checked everything I can think of but can't figure out why it is passing the wrong value for the invoice.  The Form Fields Def field numbers are correct, the ProcessFlow tests s...

I am attempting to use PFI to simulate generation of reports.  The query that PFI accepts is: SELECT UCCUNO, UCORNO, UCIVQT, UCCUAM FROM *LIBL.OSBSTD WHERE UCORTP IN ('CUS','EMC') AND UCIVDT BETWEEN 20100201 AND 20100228.  However, the actual SQL statement I want to apply to PFI is: SELECT UCCUNO, UCORNO, SUM(UCIVQT), SUM(UCCUAM) FROM *LIBL.OSBSTD WHERE UCORTP IN ('CUS','EMC') AND UCIVDT BETWEEN 20100201 AND 20100228 GROUP BY UCCUNO, UCORNO How can this be accomplished within PFI...

Hi All, We have installed Processflow Designer in one desktop(windows server) for development. To access some more activities, we had to install the processflow professional. But when another user who doesnt have 'Adminitration' access to the desktop(wiondowsn server) logs on,  only the processflow standard works and the processflow professional is not so the addtional activities are not useable. Do you know of any work around to this Thanks, Abdon

Is there any easier to perform the following without using multiple branches and assign to accomplish this SQL statement executed via PFI    SELECT WHLO, RGDT, substring(String(RGTM),0,2) AS HOUR, COUNT(RIDN) AS RIDN05    FROM *LIBL.MITADI    WHERE RIDI > 1 AND RGDT = 20100208    GROUP BY WHLO, RGDT, HOUR; Thanks

If for some reason a scheduled custom developed  ProcessFlow needed to be rerun without rescheduling the PF using the PF Scheduler is it possible to execute the PF manually. Lawson Version: 9.0.1 Server OS: Windows Server 2008

Hi all:           I am well aware that all formatting of data should be performed on the presentation level, however, my end users do not want to perform the formatting themselves.  That being said, how can I format 2 data values within the assign node of PFI  One field is the order quantity which should have the format of  [(Z,ZZZ,ZZ0)] and the other field is the order total in the format of [(Z,ZZZ,ZZ0.99)].  I thought about using SQL function of CAST, CONVERT, and MONEY data type to resolve...

I am attempting to update the Purchase From location on PO20 using the transaction activity node. The flow begins with a DME Query to get all applicable records and then proceeds through a branch. Based on the branch logic, the data goes to one of two transaction nodes. If more than one record is found in the query, however, the transaction node is updating only one record (usually the last). I cannot get the flow to update all of the records. Any ideas what I am doing wrong

We are creating a flow in conjuction with a screen to allow users to kick off a flow at their convenience (without have PFI installed on their computer).  The screen will have selection criteria for M-F and the users will be able to select which days they want to run it on. The flow itself will run daily and check the appropriate flags to see which days it fully execute.  So basically I need to know what java script function will check what day it is so that I can do a comparison.  Example wo...

Does any know if it is possible to create a new work category in BPM and relate it to a service (Existing or new)  I'm looking for a solution like how RQ approvals work with category filtering. Thanks Robert

Wondering if anyone has come up with an easy option to this - users are asking for an option to add to approval flows where any type of rejection response prompts for an 'Are you sure' message. I know I can route to another action as a verification - but that seems like overkill....so thought I would see if anyone has a creative alternative to this.

OK - not sure why I am bread dead on this one. I think I've been staring at it and just not seeing it for some reason.  Trying to do a simple variable assignment based upon an if expression: If A = 1 then B = 2 else B = 3 I know I've done this without having to add a function in pflow.js - but for whatever reason every syntax I try is failing. In my example, A,B and C are all string variables.

I am trying to update PA07.1 (Competency Proficiencies) using PFI. I need to 'Add' a Proficiency and Status to an existing Competency (defined earlier with HR81.4). The problem I am encountering is that the PA07 form requires an Inquire prior to Adding the proficiency. I can't figure out how to do the Inquire. On my first attempt I created a transaction node with a Method of 'Change' but I get an error that an inquire must be made first. I then created a transaction of type Inquire b...

We occasionally (maybe once every 2 to 4 weeks) find that the PA53 AGS transaction in the work unit does not update the Approval flag to Y.  Everything in the work unit and IOS log looks normal.  I can cut the AGS transaction call string out of the work unit and paste it in the PF Designer and run it and it works perfectly.  This happens on different Personnel Actions and submitted by different users (and the same PA's with the same users work perfectly most of the time).  I can find no pattern....

Hi, We created a new flow with email node to trigger the mail to users. But the PF is not triggering any emails. The PF completes succesfully without any error, but no email was triggered. When we checked the log, it says the status as 'Completed' and even in WFWORKUNIT the status is 4. Please guide me in resolving the issue. Thanks in Advance Alex

I'm trying to do a jQuery post to writeattach.exe and I keep getting 'Parent Record Not Found'.  My understanding of writeattach is that it is supposed to ADD a comment record.  Can someone take a look at my URL and let me know if I have something constructed wrong http://server:port/cgi-la...&_OPM=M&_ECODE=FALSE

Hello, I'm writing a simple flow to query RM and then write out the results in a file on the PC. I have the RM query node, and inside of that, I have the FileAccess Node. Within the file access node, I want to append a new line everytime it writes to the file.  However, in testing it, it just appends the data into one very long string, and does not parse it out into new lines. How can I pass a new line or carriage return in the File Access node I've tried a few things but they don't work...

I have a flow which generates a large number of activity records and is independent of a service (Standalone).  As we do with all processflow workunits, once completed we move them to history.  The problem is an out-of-memory issue that causes the custom activity moving the workunits to fail.  We made the changes to VM as indicated by an article in the knowledge base  and at first it seem to work.  My question, is there an automated way to delete/purge specific workunits so they are not moved.  ...

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 a...