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Commodity codes are standard classification codes for products and services used to detail where money is spent within a company. In Maximo commodity codes are used to define similar types of items, tools, or services. Commodity codes are also grouped together in commodity groups. A commodity group contains a grouping of individual commodity codes.Commodity groups […]
This article is outdated! Please go to Load failure codes with MxLoader. This entry is part of the Maximo Integration Framework series. Creating and maintaining the hierarchy of failure codes can be quite complex using the standard Failure Codes application. Unfortunately there is no common solution to import Maximo failure codes. This evening I have […]
Maximo Everyplace is the easiest solution to go mobile with Maximo however there is one little thing that always annoys me (and mobile users). After having created mobile versions of the Maximo apps, the administrator has to define a mobile start center with a Favorite Applications portlet to access them. Unfortunately, there is no way […]
Italy may not be the strongest economy in the EU but certainly offers some benefits.I will stay for the next three weeks in a wonderful place in the south of Italy where I can enjoy some sun and sandy beaches like this. Maximo and EAM are both my job and my hobby so I will […]
This was a tough week but I have learned many things. I have been two days in Florence and other two days in Montebelluna near Venice. Now I am in the train going back home for a well deserved vacation at the beach. Today I have discovered a nice way to embed Maximo UI in […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Integration Framework series. How many times you have asked yourself: Should I upgrade?Maximo Integration Framework has been improved a lot in the recent versions and fixpacks. Look at this list of features and you may find a good reason to upgrade. 7.5.0.3 OSLC – Link and share data […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Integration Framework series. Publish Channels in MIF allows to send daya to external systems using a variety of protocols. In this article I will demonstrate how to automatically export new or updated assets into CSV/XML files. Those files can then be processed by an external application to perform […]
SmartCloud Control Desk 7.5 and Maximo 7.6 have introduced new UI skins and navigation behavior. There are four new System Properties which control the left navigation pane and other related visual attributes. mxe.webclient.homeButtonHeaders – Moves Goto menu to left of the screen and adds Start Center button to the header mxe.webclient.systemNavBar – Enables the lefthand […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Java Development series. You may have noticed that there are some fields that cannot be modified once an object is saved. An example of this behavior is the ASSET.ASSETNUM field. When you create a new asset you can set it’s ID but once you have saved it it […]
To set the date format in Maximo, you use the setting.DISPLAYDATE system property from the System Properties application.When you enter a date format for this property, it overrides any system settings for displaying date formats in Maximo If you do not set the system property with DISPLAYDATE, then the display format is based on the […]