1. NA LESC 2.0 End User Training
Bill Luken –
August 2017
@billuken

2. EMEA LESC 2.0 EUT Training – Agenda
LESC 2.0 Key UI Enhancements
Screen Shots LESC 2.0
Demo
Q&A

3. LESC 2.0 Key UI Enhancements

4. LESC 2.0 Key UI Enhancements
Breadcrumbs
Drop down menus
Customize Model
Product family navigation (click on picture)
Find parts for a Model
Updated Essential Links
Lenovo Press (Product Guides)
xREF
System x Power Configurator, etc
Product Family with Data Sheets
Break-out of features for readability
Contextual Help
Tabs for grouping (similar to x-config)

5. LESC 2.0 Key UI Enhancements
Accordions for each set of components
New ABCD feed coming (align with PC)
Configuration summary with lead time
Configuration Tree shows standard and added options
Modal and Non-Modal pop-up windows
PreCustomized model translation button
translate from CTO to a LFO (preconfigured model)
output formats are XML & XLS
Translation Report button
output format is CSV
Manufacturing Validation button
validate the configuration against Lenovo manufacturing configurator

6. LESC 2.0 Screen Shots

7. LESC 2.0 Home Page
Product Drop Down – select CTO or Pre-configured model
Product Family Catalog – click on to access full product catalog
Import save configuration – can use XML or CFR
Settings – choose your language, country and currency
Search for a model or machine type
Find a part – search for compatible parts for a server

8. LESC 2.0 Home Page
Find prices – can also export all the prices in a .csv file
Model Translation Settings – create an xml file for translating CTO to LFO (preconfigured model)
Find withdrawn parts – can set the parts availability back up to 6 months
Essentials links – useful pre-sales tools

9. LESC 2.0 Product Page - Family Category
Breadcrumb trail
Product Category – Rack and Tower Servers
Data Sheets – Sales and Marketing information

10. LESC 2.0 Product Page – Product Selection
Breadcrumb
Customize – in this example the x3550 M5
Import – you can import a saved XML or CFR file
Preconfigured models table

11. LESC 2.0 Configuration Page
Breadcrumb
Configuration Summary – contains Configured Price & Configuration Availability (based off of longest lead time part)
Configuration Tree – Shows base components and added parts
Hide/Show PN’s & Expand/Collapse Accordions
Tabbed Component Grouping
Accordions – currently collapsed
Part Number column
Feature Code column
Contextual Help

12. LESC 2.0 Configuration Page – Non-Modal Pop-Up
Non-Modal pop-up window – can be moved and issue can be addressed without closing. Pop-Up will automatically close once issue is resolved
Go To – you can jump to issue, the window will remain open
Alert indicator on the tab
Alert indicator on part
Error message – you can hover over the feature codes to help locate issue
Alert indicator on part – you can increase memory to clear error

13. LESC 2.0 Configuration Page
16. No alert messages showing
Name the server configuration
Continue – choose continue when all parts/options are added and there are no alert messages or errors

14. LESC 2.0 Summary Page
Important Messages – In this example there is a message showing the configuration as Non Redundant and where to find the Power Configurator Tool
Configuration Summary – showing total system price and availability
Manufacturing Validation – validate configuration against manufacturing configurator
PreCustomized Options – Translate from a CTO model to a LFO (preconfigured model)
Translation Report – Report from a successful CTO to LFO translation
Customize – select this option if changes are needed to the x3550 M5 configuration
Detail – this is where you can find all the features and prices in the configuration
Export – here you can choose the various formats to export
Save – when completed save the config in XML

15. LESC 2.0 PreCustomized Options Pop-Up
Select ‘PreCustomized Options’ from right navigation bar – this will launch the CTO to LFO translator and identify any comparable LFO model(s). Mainly based off of CPU SKU
CTO model being translated
Multiple models found in this example, you can choose which one best fits your requirements and requires less PN removal
Export configuration in XML and/or XLS

16. LESC 2.0 PreCustomized Options Reports
XLS translation output showing what is required to build a comparable model using a preconfigured model (LFO)
Translation Report using the CSV output format

17. LESC 2.0 Modal Pop-Up Home – choose home to exit summary page
Modal Pop-Up Window – modal pop-up window has to be addressed before any action can be taken, notice greyed out background
Must choose Lose It (exit to home) or Cancel (make some changes to configuration/solution)