Author : Bruno Portaluri

This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. Adding validation to the virtual (aka Nonpersistent) mbos (on execute 7609 feature). In this sample we are going use the change status dialog from the Asset Application to validate if the memo is filled in when the Asset status is set to BROKEN. […]

This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. Starting 76 we can write scripts for cron tasks too. It follows the same principle as the endpoint handler. We have a cron class – com.ibm.tivoli.maximo.script.ScriptCrontask that helps achieve this. We need to register that class as a new crontask in the crontask […]

This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. We can control whether we can add or delete a Mbo using scripting Object Launchpoint “Allow Object Deletion” and “Allow Object Creation”. Can Add This is an Object Launch Point – “Allow Object Creation” where you can control whether you can add a […]

This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. Say we want to hold the reference of work order from which we created (copied from) a new work order. We would create a custom attribute called “copiedfrom” in the WORKORDER object. We would then need to customize the duplicate process of the […]

This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. Maximo 7.5 scripting supported only the “Before Save” events in the Object Launchpoint. Although that is the most common place where we do customizations, we often see the need to attach some customizations at the after save and after commit events – mostly […]

This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. YNC (Yes, No, Cancel) interactions can now be implemented using automation scripts. We need to do some prep work before writing the script. First we need to define a message that support the YNC interaction. Make sure you have the message as informational […]

This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. Maximo errors in 7.5 version used to get done by setting errorgroup, errorkey and params variables (full example here). Setting those did not stop the execution, as the execution will continue till the end of that script and then it will check the […]