In our forum, Robert is having some trouble creating a person group object structure, so I figured I could write up a quick step by step tutorial on how create a MXPERSONGROUP object structure to import new groups. … Read More
To me the BIRT report logos are unnecessary and take up too much valuable space on a report where the data is the most important thing on there. But if you don't want to have the "tivoli" and "IBM" logos displayed, you can always remove them from … Read More
Sometimes I would randomly encounter a situation where the nodeagent in Websphere is not synchronized with the cell. Because of this, the MAXIMO application server would not start and would fail immediately. Now since your nodeagent is out of sync, … Read More
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 … Read More
Maximo's web service library can consist of services that are created from an Object Stucture, Enterprise Service or a Standard Service. A Standard Service is just that, it's an OOTB service that is prebuilt and predefined. There are roughly 10 or … Read More
Debugging BIRT reports can be a pain if you don't know where to start looking. You can't set breakpoints in your report and step through your javascript code, but this code snippet will help with all your report writing needs. … Read More
I recently got a chance to quickly play around with the Create Report button or Query Based Reports (QBR) in Maximo 7. At first look, creating a QBR report can be a bit daunting, but it's actually quite easy to use. This feature is very powerful … Read More
The conditional expression manager is a useful tool to use to conditionally display or hide data or fields. This helpful trick will show you how to make a field required based on some other values in other fields. In previous version of Maximo, … Read More
In a previous post on adding a laborcode field to the workorder we used a custom java class to get it to work. Our friend, PRiMoZ mentioned that we could also do the same thing with table domains, so this tutorial will walk you through setting that … Read More
Out of the box, when you create a new workorder, the reported by field is the current logged in user. But sometimes the user who is creating the workorder in Maximo is sometimes the service desk person that is on the phone with real user. If the … Read More
