This STE will cover:
- Understanding the products and versions needed to upgrade Maximo.
- Verified process of upgrading through each stage of the process.
- Error handling strategies and getting help.
WebCast: Upgrading Maximo 4, 5, 6, 7 and beyond
April 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
WebCast: Maximo 7 Logging
April 20, 2011 By 1 Comment
Audience: Customers, Level 2 & 3 Support, Services, GTS, ITD, GBS, Business Partners and Sales
This STE will cover: Setup, Logging and System Properties applications, test, reference.
Maximo 6 Go To navigation sub menu not working
April 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Recently there have been a lot of questions regarding why suddenly the Maximo 6 go to navigation menu stopped working. The culprit is a Microsoft security update. IBM is aware of this issue and is working on a resolution. The temporary solution is to remove the Microsoft security fix KB2497640. [Maximo navigation not working via IBM [...]
How to edit CLOSED workorders in Maximo 7
April 19, 2011 By 3 Comments
I have seen this many times where users ask me, “how can I edit closed workorders in Maximo?” They want to be able to go into a closed workorder and add labor hours or materials on them for some reason or another and if you have used previous versions of Maximo, you can’t edit closed [...]
Change the display date format in Maximo 7
April 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Here is an interesting article on changing the date format in Maximo 7. This actually explains the logic behind the dates in Maximo and how it’s derived when it’s displayed to the user. [IBM Support]
Customize login page with MaxMessages
April 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Our friend Chris Q has come up with a brilliant solution for customizing the default Maximo login page with his own messages. I have shown you how to modify the login page before, but Chris made note of the ‘welcomemaximomessage’ key is used in the <title> tag of the page and you can’t put HTML [...]
Maximo business object (MBO) development
April 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Here is a link to a great resource for getting started with MBO development
How to integrate your enterprise applications with Maximo
March 31, 2011 By 1 Comment
I just found this article that describes how to integrate other systems with Maximo 7. It talks about what is the Maximo Integration Framework then walks you through setting up Maximo workorder web services then working with it.
What is the ‘additionalevent’ attribute?
March 29, 2011 By 2 Comments
The ‘additionalevent’ and ‘additionaleventvalue’ are attributes that you can use to tell Maximo what event to call and what are the parameter to pass to that event. For example, you can automatically load the workorder tracking application just by click on a hyperlink that is formatted as such: http://server/maximo/ui/login?event=loadapp&value=wotrack As you can see the attributes [...]
