IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
This post explains how to extract a set of attachments from the server. First of all you have to find the root folder where the attachments are stored. This can be found in mxe.doclink.doctypes.defpath system property (System Configuration – Platform Configuration – System Properties). Unfortunately, from the file names you cannot understand to which records […]
As I have already discussed in a previous post I always tend to adopt an Agile Development approach in my projects. My own motto is: Start Small, Grow Fast. I always use this as a very simple guiding principle when working on customer projects. Some months ago I came across this nice picture that perfectly […]
Maximo 7.6 has a lot of interesting features. One of these is the new installation technology.Richard Lesses has published a useful set of articles with a step-by-step guide of how to install Maximo 7.6. Installing Maximo 7.6: A first look, part 1Installing Maximo 7.6: A first look, part 2Installing Maximo 7.6: A first look, part […]
Many times Maximo users and administrator lacks database skills. These are important in several situations: Write ‘where clause’ statements to filter data in Maximo UI. Develop complex SELECT statements to extract data from multiple tables when developing report. Optimize existing queries to solve performance issues. If you need to improve your SQL skills I suggest […]
Here are some nice presentations that I use during basic education sessions for new Maximo users. Introduction – PowerPoint – SlideShare Getting Started – PowerPoint – SlideShare Asset Management – PowerPoint – SlideShare Work Management – PowerPoint – SlideShare Inventory Management – PowerPoint – SlideShare I tried to use a pretty template and a common […]
Gartner has recently published its Magic Quadrant for Energy and Utilities Enterprise Asset Management Software and guess what?IBM Maximo Asset Management is positioned it the ‘Magic’ corner! Read the full report here.
You probably know that Preventive Maintenance module in Maximo allows to schedule periodical maintenance activities in order to keep your assets running efficiently.In other words you can use the Preventive Maintenance to schedule the automatic generation of work orders. Work orders can be generated manually using the ‘Generate Work Orders’ action in the Preventive Maintenance […]
Some fields in Maximo are linked to a domain that allows to set its value from a predefined set of values. In some cases however, when the value does not provide enough information, you may wish to also display the description of the domain value that you have chosen. For example lets consider the STATUS […]
To add the long description to the message of an email sent through a communication template you have to perform a few configuration steps. The example below is related to WORKORDER object but can be applied to any main object. First of all you have to create a relationship in Database Configuration between the WORKORDER […]
The title of this article is quite scaring right? Let’s describe the scenario… You have an external application that needs to query or update data in Maximo using a Web Service call. In the real world the outbound XML schema of the caller is different from the Maximo inbound interface. How can you transform the […]