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There are many blog posts in the Maximo technical community describing how to develop an automation script and schedule execution using a cron task (link1, link2). However, a custom cron task may run for a long period of time and this may block the system when trying to enable administrative mode. In this case you […]
I was recently struggling understanding how enable password expiration in Maximo when using native authentication. This IBM TechNote explains very well how the standard Maximo expiration configuration works but there is a very tricky sentence: In the case of a user belonging to any groups not containing a password expiration, the user’s password will never […]
In a previous post, I demonstrated how the Maximo audit tracking can be used to display the updates made on a record enabling the audit and adding a “history” tab in the application. This technique is quite common but has a major drawback; it displays all the audited field in a row even if only […]
Maximo provides a useful action in many applications to create a follow-up work order or a linked service request from many applications. The same result can easily be automated using the WO.createWorkorder() or the Ticket.createWorkorder() API methods. The standard WO2WO or TICKET2WO crossover domains can also be used to copy some attributes from the source […]
Many large clients require to deliver an as-built document as part of the deliverables to be produced before the go-live. This is typically a Word document where all the Maximo configurations must be listed and described. I think this document has little real value for several reasons: In this article I will propose a better […]
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If you need to handle workflows (start, stop, route, etc.) from an automation script you can use the following two Maximo API classes: WorkFlowService and WFInstance. Here are few examples. The WorkFlowService.initiateWorkflow metod can be used to start a workflow: To stop an active workflow you can use WFInstance.stopWorkflow method: To route a workflow I […]
Being efficient in our job should be always a top priority. As Maximo administrators and developers, we are logged many hours on the web interface and navigating around the UI. A properly configured MAXADMIN’s start center is one of the important things to set up. Here is a typical start center of one of my […]
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: 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 […]
Today aI want to share two simple but useful queries to be created in the Users application. The following where clause will list all active user sessions excluding system: I always add a result set on MAXADMIN start center with this query to see how many users are logged on the production environment or how […]