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May 2026

May 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

"Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled."

-- Emily Dickinson

Trending Topics

Need to 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, like TERM VOL and TERM VOL be restricted to only TP, but if they do a STATUS action, they can still select LV for someone going on Leave? Read More

Lawson HR170 Jobs Index

I am new in my role. The organization has been using Lawson for about 20 years, and we have accumulated a lot of HR170 jobs/reports over those years.

I am looking for a report that would pull the list of all jobs created (including the author, description, last time processed, etc) that we could audit and index? Read More

LPL INSTR Functions

I'm writing a simple report using the Create Report function in Infor Cloudsuite. I'm needing a column on the report that simply lets me know if the information in one field exists in another field and return true or false. I've tried a number of things in the Add Compute field and nothing seems to work. I've looked at LPL documentation and seen references to INSTR and a number of different string functions such as StringContains and none of them seem to work. If anyone can guide in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated. Documentation sould be wonderful. Read More

Worthwhile Reading

CIOs are caught between employee AI fatigue and leadership expectations

As technology rapidly evolves, boards are pressuring leaders to quickly deploy AI and deliver results, but at the risk of frustrating and burning out their employees.

CIO, April 15, 2026

7 biggest healthcare security threats

Healthcare organizations can expect ransomware, botnets, cloud misconfigurations, web application attacks, phishing, AI usage, and smart devices to be their top risks.

CSO, April 3, 2026

Healthcare CIOs rethink AI rollout

As ambient documentation and gen AI spread across clinical workflows, healthcare IT leaders are reassessing governance, security, and architecture to safeguard protected health information without slowing innovation.

CIO, April 8, 2026

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John Henley

Decision Analytics

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