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The most common technique to force a reload of an MboSet (and thus refresh a table on the UI) is to call the MboSet().reset() method. context = UIContext.getCurrentContext()wcs = context.getWebClientSession()wcs.getDataBean(“assetmove_t”).refreshTable() In some cases you don’t need to reload the MboSet or you just cannot do it because you haven’t yet saved the MboSet. In such […]
Maximo conditional expressions use an SQL-like syntax allowing to replace the value of a specific attribute using the “:” notation. For example, you can have an expression like this: At run time, the second wonum is replaced with the value of the wonum attribute for the current record. The value of an attribute of a […]
We all know that Maximo has moved to OpenShift platform and is evolving to a more web-based documentation system but sometimes I feel a little bit old and I prefer to study in the “old way”. In this page I’m sharing to old IBM Maximo 7.5 documentation in PDF format. I know it’s quite old […]
If you are collecting a lot of photos with service requests or workorder you may start wasting a lot of disk space in the DOCLINCS folder. Here is a small script I have developed for one of our clients to resize JPEG files in the doclinks folder using ImageMagick open-source software. Download the application from […]
I’m copying here a very insightful explanation by Steven Shull on MoreMaximo forum about of the different types of REST APIs available in Maximo. It is (as always) really well written and worth posting here as well. MIF is the abbreviation for the Maximo Integration Framework. All the integration possibilities (flat file, table, SOAP, REST, […]
Maximo allows to create predefined queries in applications that can be used to filter records based on specific criteria and reuse them in Start Centers. However, there are some limitations in the capability and manageability of these queries. In this post I will describe how to create a Query Manager application to centrally manage application […]
MxLoader 8.5 has some improvements regarding the capability to upload and download files from Maximo. REST and OS services behavior is now aligned and upload/download is fully supported. MxLoader provides two special tags to manage files: Downloading files To download files you must specify the FileTxt/FileEnc tag in the header. MxLoader will recognize that you […]
Writing automation scripts in Maximo is easy and almost every Maximo specialist has some ort of skills to develop customizations using Python/Jython scripts. Every error in your code will be handled by Maximo and displayed to end user as an error message. However, in some cases you need to handle exceptions in order to explicitly […]
Today I clicked the Apply Settings action from Logging application and I have received the following error: BMXAA5189E – Failed to load logging settings from the database. String index out of range: 0 After a long search I have discovered that it is caused by a misconfiguration of the logging appenders. click Manage Appenders action […]
Maximo automation scripts became more and more powerful during the last years so we heavy rely on these capabilities to extend Maximo features and fulfill customer needs. When the amount of script code grows, it’s easy to end up into some sort of spaghetti code so you need a practical way split the code into […]