All Things Maximo
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 rid of that [...]
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 each workorder [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Have you been in the location or asset drilldown dialog box and seen the node “…This level has reached the set display limit…”? That is because the drilldown limit for child nodes is set to 50. You can change this limit to 5 or even 200.
To enable long description functionality to a field in application designer, you must first set the field to be a long description owner. After you’ve done that, you set the ‘Lookup’ property to LONGDESC for the field in application designer. I will guide you through setting this up in Maximo 7. First, go to the [...]
We already have a login page to authenicate users, so now the first action we want to implement is a way for users to create a new work order. This … [Read More...]
I am starting a mini series on building a mobile friendly app for Maximo. This will be a lightweight mobile framework so it won't be as powerful as … [Read More...]
To all of our loyal readers, I know you are all Maximo experts by now :) but we are looking for a Java developer that is familiar with web … [Read More...]
