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July 2025

July 2025

Thought-Provoking Commentary for the Lawson Software Community

Welcome to the latest issue of The LawsonGuru Letter, a free newsletter providing provocative commentary on issues important to the Lawson Software community. The LawsonGuru Letter is published by--and is solely the opinion of--John Henley of Decision Analytics.

Quote of the Issue

“If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.”

-- Roald Dahl

Trending Topics

Self-Serve Customization and Modification

I want to add new links and customize the ESS (self-serve). Also need to change few fonts and highlight some upcoming changes on the home page of self-serve. We are using V9 LID for Lawson S3. Can anyone please suggest how to make the changes and what all access I will need to make those changes. I am a beginner. Read More

Company Group Security

Is there a way to write a rule that looks up a company group and checks the companies attached to compare in value to COMPANY CONTROL? Example...GL95 allows the usage of company groups, but if a company exists in that group that the user would not have access to, how would a rule be able to be written to prevent that user access?

Excel Upload (.uwf) template for AP20

Looking to see if anyone would be willing to share their .uwf template file if you have already created one to upload invoices into AP20. I also have read on here about AP52 / AP520 but not sure I understand how that one works yet, so would love it if someone could or would be willing to share their template file. Bottom line, looking for a way to increase our productivity without vouchering one by one. Read More

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CIO, May12, 2025

How to conduct an effective post-incident review

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CSO, June 20, 2025

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Sincerely,

John Henley

Decision Analytics

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