Accessing UI methods from automation scripts

In Maximo 7.6.1.1 IBM has greatly improved the service implicit variable to provide a lot of useful methods to interact with the user interface. Two good examples are:

service.openURL(String url, boolean newWindow)service.launchDialog(String dialogId)

For a full reference of the service methods refer to this page.

There is very important method that can be used to get a reference to the current user session:

wcs = service.webclientsession()

This will return a reference to a WebClientSession object. Explore the JavaDocs to find out what can be done.

Among others, the getCurrentApp() method will return a reference to the AppInstance object that has tons of other useful methods:

app = service.webclientsession().getCurrentApp()

All these functions need quite good experience to be leveraged successfully but certainly brakes any barrier to the use of automation scripting for any kind of customization.