WebCast: Changing relationship between IBM and Actuate: Impact to customers, 1 of 2

Due to the fact that IBM will no longer support Actuate media, they will have a presentation on their change relationship with Actuate, and how it will affect customers.  Save the date if you want to join the session. Audience: GRT, Level 1 Support, Level 2 Support, Support Planning, AVL, All Services, All Sales, Technical, [...]

IBM withdraws from Actuate support for Maximo products

IBM has announced that it will stop support for Actuate and no longer provide updates for their media.  The official date is October 1, 2010 where IBM will no longer offer Actuate media or updates to the Actuate software.  IBM will continue to support Maximo products.  Read the full article here…

Live Web Seminar: Reduce Costs and Risk of Your Upgrade to Maximo v7

Join Chris Forti, Director of Maximo solutions at Actuate on June 22 as she discusses how to reduce migration costs and risks, and add value to your current reporting infrastructure using BIRT. Attend to learn how to: *Eliminate expensive rewrites of existing Actuate reports in a new technology *Avoid the change management costs of implementing [...]

Debugging BIRT reports

Debugging BIRT reports can be a pain if you don’t know where to start looking. You can’t set breakpoints in your report and step through your javascript code, but this code snippet will help with all your report writing needs.

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Create report button (QBR) in Maximo 7

I recently got a chance to quickly play around with the Create Report button or Query Based Reports (QBR) in Maximo 7. At first look, creating a QBR report can be a bit daunting, but it’s actually quite easy to use. This feature is very powerful useful feature to have in your reporting arsenal.

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BIRT mobile framework for iServer

Check out this new YouTube video for the BIRT mobile framework for iServer. [YouTube]

BIRT onDemand and BIRT Mobile Viewer for iPhone

Today Actuate brings us BIRT onDemand and BIRT Mobile Viewer for the iPhone.  These applications allow users to view BIRT generated content on the iPhone or iPod Touch. BIRT Mobile Viewer Delivers Rich, Interactive Content For Enterprise Users on the iPhone San Mateo, Calif. – March 9, 2010 – Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU), the people [...]

Dynamically change the file name of a BIRT output report

I have been looking for this functionality for a while and now I have finally found it. This feature is available for BIRT 2.3.1, which means you will have to have Maximo 7.1.1.5 or above installed as it comes with BIRT 2.3.2. You will have to write some java for this to work, but at [...]

WebCast: Maximo 6 Actuate Overview

Since we are on the topic of report with Maximo, I figured some of you might still be on Maximo 6, so here is a webcast provided by IBM on Actuate 8.

How to fix “Assert statement failed” error in Actuate reports for Maximo 6

If you have developed or deployed Actuate 8 reports for Maximo 6, you have undoubtedly encountered this error many times.  The problem is usually due to the fact that there is a connection problem to the database and it is the user account name that is causing this error.  So when you try to run [...]