Author: thibaudatwork

Here is a solution to write stand-alone scripts for Smart Office. Stand-alone scripts are interesting to create mini applications in Smart Office like widgets, or to create full blown applications like composite applications.

A stand-alone script runs independently of an M3 program, in its own instance, eventually with its own user interface. Whereas a regular script runs as part of an M3 program, for example inside CRS610.

I will illustrate how to write a stand-alone script by creating a Tiling Window Manager widget. It’s a continuation of my previous post on How to tile windows in Smart Office. The result will look like this:

Make sure to read my disclaimer before trying this as I’m using non-public APIs.

First, I will create an empty window with an icon in the Taskbar:

var task = new Task(new Uri('jscript://'));
task.VisibleName = 'Hello World';
var runner = DashboardTaskService.Current.LaunchTask(task, null);
runner.Status = RunnerStatus.Running;
var host = runner.Host;
host.HostTitle = 'Hello World';
host.Show();

The result will look like a regular Smart Office window, albeit empty:

Then, I will use HostType.Widget to change the appearance of the window and make it look like a small widget:

var task = new Task(new Uri('jscript://'));
task.AllowAsShortcut = false;
task.VisibleName = 'Tiling Window Manager';
var runner = DashboardTaskService.Current.LaunchTask(task, HostType.Widget);
runner.Status = RunnerStatus.Running;
var host = runner.Host;
var wrapPanel = new WrapPanel();
host.HostContent = wrapPanel;
host.HostTitle = 'Tiling Window Manager';
host.ResizeMode = ResizeMode.NoResize;
host.Show();
host.Width = 221;
host.Height = 85;

The host’s Width and Height must be set after host.Show().

The result will look like a widget:

Then, I will add three buttons to the widget:

var buttons: String[] = [' ← ', 'Tile', ' → '];
for (var i in buttons) {
    var btn = new Button();
    btn.Content = buttons[i];
    btn.Width = double.NaN; // auto width
    btn.Margin = new Thickness(3, 0, 3, 0); // ltrb
    btn.Padding = new Thickness(7, 0, 7, 0); // ltrb
    wrapPanel.Children.Add(btn);
}
wrapPanel.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Center;

The result will finally look like the desired widget:

Then, I will add an event handler for the buttons:

btn.add_Click(OnClick);
...
function OnClick(sender: Object, e: RoutedEventArgs) {
    if (sender.Content.Equals(' ← ')) {
        //
    } else if (sender.Content.Equals('Tile')) {
        //
    } else if (sender.Content.Equals(' → ')) {
        //
    }
}

Then, I will add the functions for tiling and shifting the visible windows horizontally on the screen.

var shift = 0;
...
/*
 Tiles the specified windows horizontally accross the screen.
*/
function tileInstances(instances: ArrayList) {
    this.shift = 0;
    for (var i = 0; i < instances.Count; i++) {
        tileInstance(instances[i], i, instances.Count);
    }
}
/*
 Shifts the specified windows horizontally, to the left or to the right.
*/
function shiftInstances(instances: ArrayList, increment: int) {
    this.shift += increment;
    for (var i = 0; i < instances.Count; i++) {
        var n: int = instances.Count;
        var j: int = (((i + this.shift) % n) + n) % n; // fix the JavaScript modulo bug
        tileInstance(instances[i], j, instances.Count);
    }
}

Then, I will deploy the script on the server.

For Grid installations the deploy folder is somewhere like:

\\hostname\d$\Lawson\LifeCycleManager\Service\XYZ\grid\TST\applications\LSO_M3_Adapter\webapps\mne\jscript\

For non-Grid installations the deploy folder is somewhere like:

\\hostname\d$\IBM\WebSphere7\AppServer\profiles\MWPProfile\installedApps\MWPProfileCell\MWP_EAR.ear\MNE.war\jscript\

Then, I will add a shortcut to the Smart Office Canvas to launch the script with this special syntax:

mforms://_runscript?name=TilingWindowManager

My final script is:

import System;
import System.Collections;
import System.Windows;
import System.Windows.Controls;
import Mango.Services;
import Mango.UI.Core;
import Mango.UI.Services;
import MForms;
import Mango.UI;

/*
	Thibaud Lopez Schneider
	Infor
	May 7, 2012

	This script opens a widget to tile and shift the visible windows horizontally in Smart Office.
*/

package MForms.JScript {
	class TilingWindowManager {
		var shift = 0;
		public function Init(element: Object, args: Object, controller : Object, debug : Object) {
			try {
				var task = new Task(new Uri('jscript://'));
				task.AllowAsShortcut = false;
				task.VisibleName = 'Tiling Window Manager';
				var runner = DashboardTaskService.Current.LaunchTask(task, HostType.Widget);
				runner.Status = RunnerStatus.Running;
				var host = runner.Host;
				host.HostContent = CreateWindow();
				host.HostTitle = 'Tiling Window Manager';
				host.ResizeMode = ResizeMode.NoResize;
				host.Show();
				host.Width = 221;
				host.Height = 85;
			} catch(ex: Exception) {
				ConfirmDialog.ShowErrorDialogWithoutCancel(ex.GetType(), ex.Message + '\n' + ex.StackTrace, null);
			}

		}
		function CreateWindow() {
			var wrapPanel: WrapPanel = new WrapPanel();
			var buttons: String[] = [' ← ', 'Tile', ' → '];
			for (var i in buttons) {
				var btn = new Button();
				btn.Content = buttons[i];
				btn.Width = double.NaN; // auto width
				btn.Margin = new Thickness(3, 0, 3, 0); // ltrb
				btn.Padding = new Thickness(7, 0, 7, 0); // ltrb
				wrapPanel.Children.Add(btn);
				btn.add_Click(OnClick);
			}
			wrapPanel.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Center;
			return wrapPanel;
		}
		/*
			Returns a list of the visible windows.
		*/
		function getVisibleInstances() {
			var instances = MainController.Current.GetInstances();
			var visibleInstances = new ArrayList();
			for (var instance in instances) {
				var window: EmbeddedHostWindow = instance.Host.Implementation;
				if (window.Visibility == Visibility.Visible) {
					visibleInstances.Add(instance);
				}
			}
			return visibleInstances;
		}
		/*
			Tiles the specified window at the specified index relative to the specified count of windows.
		*/
		function tileInstance(instance: InstanceController, i: int, count: int) {
			var window: EmbeddedHostWindow = instance.Host.Implementation;
			window.Width = instance.ParentWindow.Width / count;
			window.Height = instance.ParentWindow.Height;
			DashboardService.Window.SetPosition(new Point(window.Width * i, 0), window);
		}
		/*
			Tiles the specified windows horizontally accross the screen.
		*/
		function tileInstances(instances: ArrayList) {
			this.shift = 0;
			for (var i = 0; i < instances.Count; i++) {
				tileInstance(instances[i], i, instances.Count);
			}
		}
		/*
			Shifts the specified windows horizontally, to the left or to the right.
		*/
		function shiftInstances(instances: ArrayList, increment: int) {
			this.shift += increment;
			for (var i = 0; i < instances.Count; i++) {
 				var n: int = instances.Count;
 				var j: int = (((i + this.shift) % n) + n) % n; // fix the JavaScript modulo bug
 				tileInstance(instances[i], j, instances.Count);
 			}
 		}
 		/*
 			Handles the click on the buttons.
 		*/
 		function OnClick(sender: Object, e: RoutedEventArgs) {
 			try {
 				var visibleInstances = getVisibleInstances();
 				if (visibleInstances.Count > 0) {
					if (sender.Content.Equals(' ← ')) {
						shiftInstances(visibleInstances, -1);
					} else if (sender.Content.Equals('Tile')) {
						tileInstances(visibleInstances);
					} else if (sender.Content.Equals(' → ')) {
						shiftInstances(visibleInstances, +1);
					}
				}
			} catch(ex: Exception) {
				ConfirmDialog.ShowErrorDialogWithoutCancel(ex.GetType(), ex.Message + '\n' + ex.StackTrace, null);
			}
		}
	}
}

Voilà!

This solution showed how to create a stand-alone script in Smart Office, how to create a widget-like script, and how to tile and shift windows.

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Special thanks to Peter A.J. for the original help.

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This solution is interesting in scenarios where at runtime we need the current user’s password to dynamically integrate to external systems, for example to connect to a network drive, to connect to a secure website, to execute SQL, to call web services, etc. Also, this solution is interesting to call M3 API or to trigger PFI flows for early versions of Lawson Smart Office that don’t have those native adapters; late versions of Smart Office have native adapters to call M3 API and to trigger PFI flows without the need to obtain the user’s password.

Follow this link to Geiger’s blog to see the solution: How to get the user password in a Smart Office script.