IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
There are several situation where you need to quickly notify a set of users sending them an email. These are few examples of such situations. There is a urgent maintenance activity to perform on Maximo that requires to enable the admin mode and logoff all the users. You are going to rollout an additional validation […]
You know IBM Maximo has a lot of fields and sometimes can be boring entering data. Here are some keyboard shortcuts that can ease the pain. I have highlighted in bold the most common and useful ones. Tab > The most important keyboard shortcut is the TAB key. It allows you to move across fields […]
Maximo search features are quite advanced but often neglected. By using the advanced search techniques described in this post it is possible to find relevant records easier and faster. Equal The equal ‘=’ operator can be used to find only records that match that a word or number exactly. In other words ‘=’ means “exact […]
The Assets/Locations drilldown dialog is one of the most longstanding and criticized features of Maximo. This dialog is almost unchanged from release 6.1 and definitely lacks some important capabilities to provide a unified view of assets and location hierarchy. However, we can make few minor improvements to the standard dialog to make it slightly better. Increase […]
A common requirement in Maximo is to track changes made by users on a specific object (database table). In Maximo terms this is called ‘Audit Tracking’.In this post I will describe how to enable audit tracking for a specific set of attributes of an object and how to display the updates in a separate tab […]
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 […]
In this article I explain how to attach/associate an action to a push button in an application. Create the Action you have to call if not already done (Go To – System Configuration – Platform Configuration – Actions). Open your application with the Application Designer and create a Signature Option with the same name of […]
One of the customer that I’m working with is heavily relying on work logs. Unfortunately, the work logs are displayed in a standard table so there is no way of quickly displaying all the logs entered by the users. The solution I have designed is a QuickSummary tab in the Work Order Tracking application that […]
Using Maximo search functionality can be sometimes complex or even frustrating. Several customers have asked me if there is a simple Google-like functionality to search for all the objects that contains a specific set of words. This article describes how to implement such feature in the Work Order Tracking application. The solution described in this […]
NOTE: This techniques requires Java programming. A similar article describes how to achieve the same results with scripting. One of the customer that I’m working with is heavily relying on work logs. Unfortunately, the work logs are displayed in a standard table so there is no way of quickly displaying all the logs entered by […]