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 [...]
Separate user interface from escalations
March 24, 2011 By 1 Comment
To improve performance for large scale environment, it is best to separate different work elements in Maximo 7 from the user interface (UI). This example from IBM shows how to separate escalations from the UI in WebSphere. You can then use this method to separate other work related parts such as cron tasks and reporting. [...]
Change the field size in Maximo 6
March 21, 2011 By 2 Comments
I recently ran into an issue where a client wanted to change the field size in Maximo 6.2 when they are in the list view of a module. I found this nice article from IBM that shows how to do just that. This tell you that you can modify the file called ‘fieldsizegroups.jsp’ to fit [...]
Configuring conditional security in Maximo
March 17, 2011 By 1 Comment
Here are a couple flash videos with audio from IBM support that show how to setup some conditional security. This first video shows how to configure required fields using attribute restrictions. In this example, a required field is needed when the workorder is set to a certain priority. Watch Part 1 Video This second video [...]
