My name is Chon, feel free to ask me any question regarding Maximo. I will try to answer them as best as I can.
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 behind BIRT™, [...]
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, [...]
If you guys want to easily develop some BIRT reports, then this plugin is for you. This tool/utility has been brought to my attention by Christian (Thanks!) and it looks very promising! Here is a brief description of the plugin:
Code generator for IBM Maximo Report Developer
MAYR-MELNHOF Karton Gesellschaft mbH and CoSMIT GmbH jointly developed a [...]
I haven’t researched this much, but I got the report list portlet to show up on the Start Center in Maximo 7, but when I click on the report to run it, it gives me an error saying something like this “The request pages for these reports has not been generated”. I have already [...]
Barcoding can be useful for many things, such as putting one on a workorder details report and when the work is completed, the person at the front desk can quickly scan those barcodes and change the status of the workorder to complete. This guide for enabling barcode fonts in BIRT will walk you through setting it up on the client development machine as well as the server running your BIRT reports.
Maximo 7 comes with BIRT automatically installed. The problem with this is that if you have a high traffic production environment, having all reports run on the same machine can be taxing and cause performance issues. There are a few options to consider to improve BIRT performance.
These tutorials and resources are great for those of you who are just starting out with the development of BIRT reports.
If you are upgrading your Maximo to the latest fixpack version 7.1.1.5, you are gonna be using the new BIRT version 2.3.2. Of course, along with any new version comes the tedious task of upgrading old files. By upgrading to the latest version of BIRT, the patch just overwrites the out-of-the-box reports with the new [...]
IBM WebCast introduction to the BIRT framework. This presentation covers topics ranging from installing BIRT designer to the architecture.
March 9, 2010
