My name is Chon, feel free to ask me any question regarding Maximo. I will try to answer them as best as I can.
To me the BIRT report logos are unnecessary and take up too much valuable space on a report where the data is the most important thing on there. But if you don’t want to have the “tivoli” and “IBM” logos displayed, you can always remove them from the report designer when developing the report, but [...]
Abstract Audience: GRT, Level 1 Support, Level 2 Support, Support Planning, AVL, All Services, All Sales, Technical, Enablement, All Business Partners, Customer This STE session is a continuation of the earlier session on the changing relationship between Maximo and Actuate. – Will detail different reporting options available for clients enabled thru Maximo’s Open Reporting Architecture [...]
If your reports are getting stuck in the BIRT processing queue, you should read this help document [IBM Support]
I am happy to announce that we have started a MAXIMO support forum. This forum will be used for all support questions. Please refrain from posting support questions in the blog comments. For all of you that already registered here, you should be able to post new support topics in the forum. And for those [...]
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 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…
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 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.
I just started to play around with this again and noticed that even in Maximo 7.1.1.6 this feature is not enabled by default. So, you have to enable it yourself. You have to download a package file and rebuild and deploy EAR for this to show. Read the full article here…
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.
Check out this new YouTube video for the BIRT mobile framework for iServer. [YouTube]
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 [...]
Here is a guide document on how to add the user name of the person executing a BIRT 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 [...]
September 3, 2010
