Design Studio On-Line Lessons

Please See Page footer Information Lesson 1 Overview (32.07 minutes)  Overview of the the Lawson Design Studio Product  XML , Javascript and how Design Studio uses them  Overview of how the addition of scripting within Design Studio can enhance functionality development .  Lawson 3-Tier Architecture with Portal. Understanding of Lawson’s inherit functionality with web products  Environment, Productlines/Dataspaces (LOGAN/IOS) & Portal  LOGAN CGI Programs ( AGS, DME , IDA )  Examples of what you can build with Design Studio

 Functional testing of Design Studio to ensure proper working order and compatibility of all software components .

Lesson 2 UI Designer: Forms Designer (44.28 minutes )

 Review the basics of Customizing a UI Form with the Quickpaint Method The Menu Options, The View Options, Introduction to the Toolbox  Exercise # 1 A HR11.1 Form will be customized we will : - Explore and modify base form “ document “ properties - Move fields from a Tab Region to the Base Page. - Default a Form Action, Default Field values - Remove Select Form “Transfer To “ options - Remove Form Actions, - Remove 2 tabs from the Tab Region  The modified form will be saved as “HR11.1_EXERCISE1 and a Portal short cut method will be made to deploy the Form.  Default values to Fields and Actions to Forms  Simple Method of deploying a CustomForm.

Lesson 3 UI Designer : Forms Designer (Part A : 24.47 minutes )  Review the basics of Customizing a UI Form with the Blank Method The Menu Options, The View Options, Introduction to the Toolbox  Exercise # 2 A HR11.1 Form using the Blank Palette Method. See Exercise Spec sheet Design Studio Exercise2.doc

The modified form will be saved as “HR11.1_EXERCISE2 and a Portal short cut method will be made to deploy the Form.

Part B: (14.15 minutes ) As a option for Individuals that do not have the HR module , included A smiliar type Exercise using the IC11.1 Lawson Form. Exercise 2B.

Lesson 4 Building DME Calls (17.21 minutes )

In this Lesson we will Review using the DME API Builder Program that is provided as a tool within the Design Studio Environment. All options within this tool will be reviewed and a follow along exercise ( to query AP Vendor Balance )accompanies this lesson .

Supplement document for the exercise is : Lesson4_DME_Notes.doc

Lesson 5 Building AGS Calls (14.16 minutes)

In this Lesson will Review using the AGS API Builder Program that is provided as a tool within the Design Studio Environment. All options within this tool will be reviewed and a follow along exercise ( to perform a AGS Add to a PO10.1 Lawson Program ) accompanies this Lesson .

Supplement document for the exercise is : Lesson5_AGS_Notes.doc Lesson 6 Review of all Toolbox objects within UI Designer ( 24.54 minutes )

Now that we have hands on experience using the UI Designer via the preceding exercises and exposure to creating AGS and DME API’s . Lets Take a step back and review UI Designer and all of its objects within the UI Designers’s Toolbox before forge forward into complementing the custom forms with javascript. Lesson 7 Review of the Forms Scripting Capability (14.15 minutes )

In this Lesson we will Review the use of Javascript & XML to enhance the functionality of Custom Forms and Portal Pages. Functional programming skillsets required to be successful in incorporating scripting are discussed as well . Where resources exist to attain basic functional skillsets in HTML/ Java Scripting and the XML document object model are shared . Examples of the use of scripting within Custom UI’s are demonstrated and discussed.

is provided as a tool within the Design Studio Environment. All options within this tool will be reviewed and a follow along exercise ( to perform a AGS Add to a PO10.1 Lawson Program ) accompanies this Lesson .

Supplement document for the exercise is : Lesson5_AGS_Notes.doc Lesson 8a Scripting Exercises for UI Forms Designer (12.49 minutes )

In this Lesson we fully explore the potential of scripting to complement extending the functionality of the Lawson Design Studio Development Environment . Along with the follow-along Visual Screen Recordings there is a document with the Code for each exercise . The name of this document is Lesson8_Exercises_code.doc. I believe you will enjoy these exercises and better appreciate what scripting will accomplish for you.

A Brief Description of the exercises is as follows:

 Lesson 8b Exercise 1 DME Query on AP10 ( 16:00 minutes)  Lesson 8c Exercise 2 AGS Call on AP10 ( 16:50 minutes)  Lesson 8d Exercise 3 Field Validation on AP10 ( 9:18 minutes)  Lesson 8e Exercise 4 Display a Image on a HR11 Form. ( 10:05 minutes)  Lesson 8f Exercise 5 Display a image on a IC12 Form Tab ( 10:29 minutes)  Lesson 8g Exercise 6 Create a Workflow Workunit from a Form AGS Call. (17.15 minutes )  Lesson 8h Exercise 7 Create a URL to Open a Form - Vanilla Form, and – Custom Form ( 10:45 minutes)  Lesson8i Exercise 8 Populate a Listbox with results from a Query ( 8:12 minutes)

Lesson 9 Wizard Builder (13.00 minutes )  Review the Basics of the Wizard Builder  As a Exercise we will create several Wizards for a HR11.1 Lawson Form

The powerpoint to be discussed via the Visual Screen Recording will elaborate more on the function of each wizard.

Lesson 10 Review of Portal Page Designer (9.16 minutes )

In this Lesson we will Introduce and Review the use of Portal Page Designer and review some practical and relevant examples of User Interfaces built with this Development Application. Also , discussed is the need to develop a thought naming convention to be used in the creation of Portal Page and subcomponent “XML” files . Lesson 11 Portal Page Designer Exercises

The following Follow-along Exercises will serve as practical and relevant User Interfaces to be created with the Portal Page Designer.

 Lesson 11a Exercise 1 Getting our feet wet with Portal Page Designer. ( 12:53 minutes )  Lesson 11b Exercise 2 Creating a Query. ( 13:29 minutes)  Lesson 11c Exercise 3 Linking 2 Queries. ( 12:24 minutes)  Lesson 11d Exercise 4 Linking a Query to a Form. ( 8:07 minutes)  Lesson 11e Exercise 5 Linking a Form to a Form ( 5:41 minutes)  Lesson 11f Misc Summarization of Portal Page Designer ( 7:56 minutes)

A Wrapup to Lesson 11 Visual Screen Recording is provided which reviews the Toolbox objects that were not included within any of the above Exercises. There is a very good example of mapping a field from a data rowset to the source property of a “Image Object”

Lesson 12 Portal Page Scripting (11.57 minutes )

Scripting with Portal Page Designer is reviewed as well as practical relevant examples .

Lesson 13 Design Studio Administrative Topics ( 9:23 minutes)

Administering functions to cover are described below:

 Portal Page Designer ( File Naming Strategy )  Wizard Designer  UI ( Forms Designer ) - Rebuilding a Forms Index - Analysis - Set Form Data Area - Form Defaults - Using Logan RD69.1 Record.

Permissions on Path to $WEBDIR/lawson/portal/content/ /pages /forms /wizards

Creating Portal ShortCuts to your Custom Forms and Portal Pages

Deploying or Custom Forms and Portal Pages via Portal Bookmarks

Footer: Supplementary : Course Documents/Notes, Reference Documents , Links to References and Sample Programs are accessible in the folder “ Course Resources” .