March 16, 2010Change canvas size in workflow designer
If you have used the workflow designer, you know as much as anyone that the canvas size is too small to be really useful. Here is a tip to make that workflow canvas size bigger.
Posts Tagged ‘Maximo’
Maximo Cognos Integration Installation
If you have installed Maximo 7.1.1.6 and want to use Cognos BI, then this Maximo Cognos Integration installation guide will help you through the process.
Maximo search methodologies
Using Maximo to search for workorders, for example, can sometimes be a task in and of itself. So the question here is how does Maximo search for records in the database and what is the best configuration for performing searches? The article from IBM, Understanding Search Methodologies, can help explain the methods used by Maximo [...]
BIRT onDemand and BIRT Mobile Viewer for iPhone
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 [...]
Creating Additional Continuous Queues and MDBs
Here is a good article on creating additional continuous queues and MDBs for Maximo 7 MIF.
Maximo links of interest 3-3-2010
Maximo links of interest: Emailing the latest worklog for a ticket. Functionality of Job Plan duration. Auto-numbering Items
Setup linked documents in Maximo 7
This guide will help you setup linked documents in Maximo 7 for Linux and Windows.
Maximo and Cognos integration
If you have Maximo 7.1.1.6 then you can use Cognos with Maximo. Here are some helpful links to setting that up. Maximo Cognos Integration Installation Maximo Cognos Integration
Setup an Integration Object for Inbound Failure codes
If you have gone through the process of importing data with MIF, you may have noticed that there is not integration object for failure codes. When I was importing data, I didn’t have to worry too much about it because I didn’t have that many failure codes to import, but if you do, it can [...]
Delete an item from Item Master in Maximo 7
OK, the title of this post might be a bit misleading, but in Maximo 7, you can’t actually delete items from the Item Master. This is not a bug and it’s actually meant to be this way. In order to “delete” an item, you basically just have to change the status of the item to [...]
Change text box screen sizes without making database field size changes
Most of you know that you can change the field size of any value by going into the database configuration and changing the size to either are larger or smaller number. But in doing this, sometimes the field on the screen doesn’t change in width if your field size changes are very minimal. If you [...]
BIRT: Add user name of person executing report
Here is a guide document on how to add the user name of the person executing a BIRT report.
Dynamically change the file name of a BIRT output 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 [...]
Maintain System Properties When Moving or Copying a Database
Here is a good article for you system administrators. If you do a lot of development like we do around here, copying and moving Maximo databases can be a pain. This article on maintaining system properties when moving or copying databases should help ease the pain applies to Maximo 7. [IBM Support]
An improved Maximo Assignment Manager
If you have used the built in Maximo Assignment Manager module, you probably wanted to pick up your computer and throw it out the window. In my opinion, the assignment manager module and far from being user friendly and all it’s meant to do is associate a name to a workorder. Of course it is [...]
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