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July 2026

July 2026

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

“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Trending Topics

This month, we revisit some older yet still very relevant topics from LawsonGuru.com. A happy summer to everyone!

Limit available values in Manager Self-Service based on Action

Our managers have the ability in MSS to enter a TERM VOL or TERM INVOL action that allows them to select a new status from the list of 12+ statuses available through HR03.1. Our issue is that the managers are supposed to only select TP for Term Pending, but they keep selecting TF for Term Final and that messes up Payroll and does not allow their last pay to be completed timely if HR does not correct the status to TP. Is there a way to limit the statuses available based on the action being taken? Read More

FSM/Cloudsuite Close Process Documentation

We are implementing FSM/Cloudsuite/v11 (pick a name) from S3/Lawson/v10. We've been given some basic close process documentation, but the documentation was not as thorough as we'd like. We are looking to supplement the documentation; does anyone have anything they could share? Looking mainly for AP, GL, AM & Recurring journals, but will take whatever anyone is willing to share. Thanks so much! Read More

Compass JDBC Driver

I was wondering if there was a way to configure the Compass JDBC Driver to work with Excel. We create a lot of end user tools in Excel with S3 and now that we're moving to Cloud Suite I was hoping there was a way to continue doing this with the data lake. A lot of our current tools include vba code to interact with the data. Even if we had to start using java for these tools that would be fine. Read More

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Sincerely,

John Henley

Decision Analytics

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