IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
Today I faced an interesting problem. My customer asked to be able to search work orders with specific values in one of the custom fields I have added few weeks ago to the Work Order Tracking application. Easy I said. I know I just need to add that custom fields in the ‘searchmore’ dialog of […]
Have you ever wondered what’s the difference between ‘Validation Where Clause’ and ‘List Where Clause’ in the Maximo Table Domain definition dialog? I believe this is one of the most common misused features in Maximo. I have see so many times tables domains defined in the wrong way. Let me show a good example of […]
In this post I’m sharing an automation script to generate a BIRT report automatically and attach it a work order. I my scenario I have triggered it from the workflow but it can be also triggered from an escalation.
In the two previous posts (first, second) about escalations we have seen what are escalations and how to tune them. In this post will give you some hints bout how to monitor escalation execution.We know that escalations are background tasks to execute actions on a specific set of records. Some of these actions may be […]
In our first Maximo escalations demystified post I have described the general functionality of Escalations. We will now dig into some details that will help you using this powerful feature at its best. The Repeat flag When defining an escalation you always have to create an escalation point and then you can assign actions and […]
Escalations are one of the most common (and easiest) way we use to automate actions in Maximo. They are well known by Maximo specialists but there are some tips to better use them and some undocumented feature you may like to use. The simplest definition of an escalation is the following. An escalation is a […]
Automation scripts are undoubtedly a powerful feature but we all know there are some limitations. For example automation scripts cannot be used to handle user input in a custom dialog box. This is because the scripting engine runs in the businessobjects layer which is below the maximouiweb layer that can handle DataBeans and user interface […]
Have you ever struggled migrating configurations from Development to Test environment and then to Production?If the answer is yes, you are not alone. I think this is the one of the most common issues when managing multiple environments in medium-large Maximo projects. Keeping several Maximo environments in synch while ensuring a fast release cycle required […]
Work Logs are a very useful feature in Maximo and Control Desk products to allow users to keep notes of the progress of work. A very nice feature of work logs is that Maximo displays all work logs for the current record an related ones. Lets make an example. If there is a work log […]
A common requirement from my clients is to track how much time work orders have been in each status. IBM Maximo already has the Work Order History dialog that displays the date and time of each status change. Unfortunately it may be not straightforward for a user to calculate the time spent in each step […]