Create a Custom Maximo UI Control
I just found this blog post and found it very interesting. You can expand this to create any control you need. Creating your own UI Control using Dojo … Read More
Tag: Application Designer
Why doesn’t Labor Reporting Advanced Search STARTDATE field doesn’t work in Maximo 7.6?
You may not have noticed this in Maximo 7.6 but in the Labor Reporting application, in the Advanced Search dialog, the Start/Finish dates don't actually work as expected. This is clearly a bug in Maximo, but why is it? There is a big change in … Read More
Add labels to application tool bar buttons
By default, the tool bar buttons within any application are just plain icons, like the run report or route workflow icon buttons. You can change this to add labels to be more clear of what the buttons are for. Go to Application Designer and export … Read More
Maximo 7.6: Editing Hover Dialogs
Question How can you add/delete attributes in the Hover Dialog in Maximo 7.6? Answer Hover dialogs are a new feature in Maximo 7.6, but one issue is that you have to be comfortable with modifying XML files to get them to work. No application … Read More
Security enabled for Attached Document action
Question Is it possible to place security on the menu items found under the paperclip icon for Attaching Documents in Maximo? Answer See the answer from IBM Technote … Read More
Alter attribute LABEL dynamically
Under WOTRACK, and making use of REMDUR field (repurposed to capture DOWNTIME hours directly on the work order record).... Assumptions: (1) There is a PRIORITIZATION scheme that says PRIORITY 1 & 3 are assets that have experienced downtime; … Read More
Adding and Viewing DESCRIPTION_LONGDESCRIPTION e-Audit Data
In a previous post, I showed how to setup a view for your audit data which is great, but what happens when you want to audit the data for Long Description of an attribute? In Maximo Database Configuration, you can enable the auditing on the … Read More
Create a View for Work Order e-Audit Data
Maximo gives administrators the ability to record and audit changes to record and keep copies of the changes, thus producing an audit trail. But there isn't an easy way to view the data. Once you setup the audit table, you have to directly query … Read More
Adding a Default Value for Person Group Lookup
This is a simple modification to this tutorial here so the steps are the same. First export the LOOKUPS.xml and save it to disk. Do a search for the table with id="persongroup". All you have to do is replace that table with this: <table … Read More
Highlight Work Log Tab When a Work Order Has Work Logs
Sometimes it nice to quickly and visually get feedback on information when looking at a work order detail. There can be so many fields and tabs on a work order detail screen that it would be nice to know if the record has any work logs, or any other … Read More
