Workflow v. Flow Control v. Field Control
Dion Marhue posted a great article on the differences of these configuration tools and gives a great explanation. It's worth a quick read. … Read More
Dion Marhue posted a great article on the differences of these configuration tools and gives a great explanation. It's worth a quick read. … Read More
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
In some cases, there are restrictions that organizations want to apply throughout the entire Maximo application server and there are a few ways to do this like applying a restriction to the 'EVERYONE' group, but a better way is to create a Global … Read More
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
In some use cases, some organizations want to remove certain statuses from the 'change status' dialog in the Work Order Tracking application. So the question is, how can this be done? In this scenario, we are going to remove the APPR status from … Read More
Here is a quick thought I want to put into your head. There are so many ways to do just this in Maximo, but what are the best ways and what are the affects of doing it a certain way? Database Configuration If you make a field required in the … Read More
There are many ways to configure and customize Maximo from the user interface down to the object level with Java programming. With so many options, how do you choose the right one? The Conditional Expression Manager, Automation Script and … Read More
These tips come from Bruno and are really useful. Here are some tutorials that I particularly like: Find all references to a conditional expression How to hide a field using conditional expressions How to change the color of a field using … Read More
Sometimes you just want to create a conditional lookup for certain fields. To do this, you would use the conditional expression manager [IBM Support]. … Read More
Here is a great tutorial from IBM Support that shows you step by step how to make classification attributes required using the conditional expression manager. … Read More