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Chon

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November 3, 2009

Filter Out Decommissioned and NotReady Locations in the Location Lookup

Question Prevent Decommissioned and Not Ready locations from getting displayed in the locations lookup Answer Workaround: 1. Go to the domains application. Create a new Table domain click New Row button. Enter the following: DOMAIN: OPERATINSTATUS Object: LOCATIONS List Where Clause: siteid=:assetsiteid and status in (select value from synonymdomain where domainid=’LOCASSETSTATUS’ and maxvalue=’OPERATING’) Validation Where [...]

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Chon

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November 3, 2009

Maximo cron tasks not running

If you are using Maximo 7 and having trouble getting the cron tasks to run, make sure you don’t have the Admin Mode turned on. To turn off admin mode, go to System Configuration -> Platform Configuration -> Database Configuration then click on Select Action -> Manage Admin Mode. From there, you can turn off the admin mode which will then start all your configured cron tasks.

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Chon

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November 1, 2009

Create MAXDEMO database for Maximo 7

Here are the steps to create a MAXDEMO database: The automated installation selected from the Launchpad defaults to creating an ‘empty’ maximo database. There are 2 ways to create a maxdemo database during the installation of Maximo 7. 1. Launch the installation executable passing parameters. a. From a command prompt and change to the location [...]

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Chon

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October 30, 2009

Maximo live demo sites

Most of you guys probably already knew this, but did you know that IBM has a live demo site for Maximo 6 and 7?  You can log in and play around with whatever modules you want.  For all of you potential future IBM clients, have a look at these demo sites before you go out [...]

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Chon

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October 28, 2009

Change status of a record with an inbound transaction

This article by IBM support explains how to change the status of a record with an inbound transaction with MEA or the MIF. Question How do I get the Integration Framework or MEA to change the status of a record in Maximo? Answer Status change is an operation that is performed on stateful Maximo Business [...]

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Chon

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October 28, 2009

MAXIMO BIRT Report Generator

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 [...]

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Chon

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October 26, 2009

Adding a Numeric Range Domain to control values on Regular Hours field

Here is an good IBM support article on adding a numeric range to the regular hours field for labor transactions.  [IBM Support]

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Chon

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October 22, 2009

Mismatches between labor, craft, skill level, vendor and contract are not allowed. Use the Select Value lookup to see a list of valid choices

If you have been playing around with the Maximo Enterprise Adapter (MEA) or even the Integration Framework in Maximo 7, and you have tried to load labor transactions against a workorder, you may have encountered this very random error: Mismatches between labor, craft, skill level, vendor and contract are not allowed. Use the Select Value [...]

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Chon

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October 21, 2009

WebCast: Maximo Work Order Flow Control

Abstract Audience: Level 2 Support, Level 3 Support services, GTS, Business Partners, Sales, Customers Abstract: This STE will cover: – Setup – Usage Presented by: May On Date: November 13, 2009 10:00 AM Eastern US Content This is the Powerpoint Presentation used for the live session: NOTE: Powerpoint will be available on the week of [...]

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Chon

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October 20, 2009

Link directly to workorder in Maximo from external application

We do a lot of custom 3rd party add on modules that all of our clients use and find very useful.  Of course all these add on modules have to integrate tightly with Maximo for it to function properly.  I have already shown how to automatically log in to Maximo and directly open the workorder [...]

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Chon

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October 18, 2009

Error adding security groups to new users

I was playing around the Security Groups and Users module and I came across an error message that didn’t really make sense to me.  I had logged into Maximo as a user that I created, actually duplicated from the Maxadmin user, so I have all the exact same rights as Maxadmin.  I opened the Users [...]

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Chon

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October 16, 2009

New Maximo 7 fix pack releases for October 16, 2009

Today IBM has release 4 fix packs for Maximo: Maximo for Calibration 7.1.1.1 Fix Pack (Download Link) The purpose of this fix pack is to fix issues with printed report output for Maximo for Calibration reports. Prerequisites Before you install this fix pack, ensure the following requirements are installed: Maximo Asset Management 7.1.0 Maximo Base [...]

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Chon

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October 14, 2009

Report list portlet not working

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 generated [...]

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Chon

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October 14, 2009

Edit dialogs not found in Application Designer

I recently got a great question from Ernie.  The question was this: Would you happen to know how to hide the Person Group tab on select ownership menu option? I need to be able to assign an owner and owner group. I have already creating a lookup field for person group and need to remove [...]

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Chon

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October 12, 2009

Wildcard searches in Maximo 7

You can use a “wildcard” character or characters with letters or numbers to indicate you want to find records that begin with, end with, or contain those letters/numbers. There are four characters you can use as a wildcard: the asterisk (*), the percent sign (%), the underscore (_), and the question mark (?). Use * [...]

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