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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 […]
Here is the IBM Maximo product roadmap (September 2019). Trends are: UI modernization, mobility (Anywhere and Work Centers), APM (asset Performance Management), inventory optimization, Cognos analytics… View the Webcast Download the PDF
I want to share a small trick I have learned from this presentation. It is an undocumented feature of Automation Scripts that will automatically launch a script based on a special naming convention. For example if you want to run a script each time a ASSET object is saved you just have to create an […]
Sometime you have a complex workflow with many nodes. In these situations is not always easy to troubleshoot an issue or to modify the workflow for a changing business need. For example we may have several nodes in the workflow setting the work order status to CANC. We know that we use the WO CANC […]
Maximo has several interrelated objects People, Person Group, Users, Labor, Craft, Qualifications, etc. Sometimes is difficult to understand the real differences between them. In this post I will provide a quick overview of these concepts. For more details you can refer to this excellent Maximo Secrets application Map. People A person record contains basic information […]
We all know IBM Maximo is not a monitoring console and has no auto-refresh feature in the start center or in the applications. However, in some situations, we may need a Refresh button to reload the content of a table in a Maximo application. In this example I have added a button to refresh the […]
A very useful feature of Maximo is the ability to send emails to recipients from many applications like Work Order Tracking or Service Requests. The Create Communication action can be used to fill the email data (To, CC, BCC, Subject, Message , attachments). In this context it is very useful to have define Communication Templates […]