My name is Chon, feel free to ask me any question regarding Maximo. I will try to answer them as best as I can.
If you have used the built in Maximo Assignment Manager module, you probably wanted to pick up your computer and throw it out the window. In my opinion, the assignment manager module and far from being user friendly and all it’s meant to do is associate a name to a workorder. Of course [...]
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I recently received a question regarding the ability to edit the Service Request detail screen in the application designer in Maximo 7. Actually, it was more along the line of where can I find the detail screen in the application designer? Of course, adding fields and modifying fields is somewhat straight forward in the application [...]
You can set default filters for workorders in Maximo, by setting the default where clause in the application designer. You can set it so that when a user first opens the workorder module, only the PM worktypes are queried. The user can still requery the workorders by using the advanced search. Read the whole article [...]
In Maximo 4.1.1, you used to be able to select a laborcode or craft on a workorder. Now in Maximo 6 and 7, you can’t even select either one. You now have to select a person ID for the lead field on the workorder. I am not completely sure why IBM got [...]
The workorder assignment manager already has a built in color code scheme where it changes the font color of the rows depending on what the priority of the workorder is. We can expand this functionality to other modules as well such as the Workorder Tracking module. We can change the row color of [...]
I recently got a great question from Ernie. The question was this:
Would you happen to know how to hide the Person Group tab on select
ownership menu option? I need to be able to assign an owner and owner
group. I have already creating a lookup field for person group and need to
remove the option to select [...]
An iframe control can be useful in many ways to add extra functionality to your existing Maximo implementation. You can use this method to host our EZDash solution. This little tip on how to create an iframe control in Maximo doesn’t involve any custom java code to be written. It’s actually quite easy to create [...]
I found this great IBM support site that has a few short flash demos/tutorials for doing various tasks in Maximo 7. Here is the complete list of flash videos.
Before version 6.2.2, you can have more than 2 icons for Direct Print reports in the Application Toolbar. After this release, you can no longer to that unless you modify the system XML to do so. You can modify the library XML to do expand the asset/location drilldown limit as well.
So to customize the report [...]
February 9, 2010
