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 [...]
Calendar input shortcuts
Here is an interesting shortcut. If you have a field on the screen that uses a calendar, such as the target start date, you may dread using the calendar popup or don’t want to type in the whole current date into the field itself. Well, Maximo has a built in shortcut functionality that is really [...]
Install multiple maximo environments on one administrative machine
All of you have probably read my post on installing multiple instances of Maximo 7 using WebSphere. It is the third most popular post on this site. Now IBM, with it’s latest installer package, has enabled this capability. To read what they have provided, follow this link to their support site for more information.
Enable labor transaction future actual dates
Some of you may have seen the dialog message, “Actual Dates May Not Be In The Future”, when you try to enter labor hours that are considered future dates. This is the default functionality of Maximo, but there is a way to disable it if you want to. To disable this, open a connection to [...]
Monitoring License Compliance in Maximo 7
I’ve always been curious as to how IBM monitors user licenses in Maximo 7…
Enable Maximo audit tables
Electronic signatures and electronic audit records provide an additional level of security control and auditing capability within MAXIMO. The person(s) responsible for the content of the electronic records can control system access in several ways: Using the Login Tracking feature in the Signature Security application, you can control the number of allowed login attempts and [...]
Running a Smarter Business with Beaumont Hospital
Here is a video of Jack Porco from Beaumont Hospital in Michigan talking about their mobile based PM inspections program where we played a significant role in developing, testing and implementing.
EZDash with Google Map integration
We have added a new integration with Google Maps to our EZDash solution. This Babson EZDash integration simply shows the number of work request by building around campus. Check it out…
Display More Than 10 Rows of Asset Specifications
The Maximo default display of 10 can be changed to allow the Asset application’s Specifications table window to show more rows to the user without having to scroll. Go to Configuration | Application Designer In the Application field enter ASSET and hit Enter Open the record for the ASSET application by clicking on it Click [...]
Change the Default Behavior of the New Row Button
If the user presses the Enter key instead of the Tab key during data entry a new row gets created. The user desires that either the Enter key or the Tab key be designated for use during data entry to move to the next field. The default behavior of the New Row button within each [...]








