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TPAE 7.5 has introduced a nice Rich Text editor control for editing and formatting long descriptions. This applies to both Maximo and SmartCloud Control Desk starting from version 7.5.This feature is very cool in some cases but may cause some troubles. I personally do not like the effects of pasting text into such RTF text […]
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 […]
In a previous post I have described how to correctly manage a child table in an application using the Application Designer. However, there are better ways of achieving the same goals so I will analyze all the available options to correctly link records in a parent-child relationship. If you are a creating custom objects and […]
This article is obsolete. Please refer to this one. If you are a creating custom objects and applications in TPAE you may need at some point to create a child table like the Subassemblies in the Assets application. Let’s pretend we have a parent table called TB1 and a child table called TB2. TB1: Parent […]
Maximo stores labels in multiple places. When you add a label to a field, tab or section in Application Designer, Maximo stores this in the application XML in the MAXPRESENTATION table and in the MAXLABELS table. For fields, labels are stored in Database Configuration, in the Title field of the attribute (MAXATTRIBUTE table). For example, […]
There are five ways to set the default value of a field in Maximo. Database Configuration The first way is to set the default value at the database level using Database Configuration.All you have to do is the object and then the attribute for which the default is to be set. In the right hand side of the […]
Many Maximo applications have a default sort in the tables that displays objects both in the ‘List’ tab and in the details of the objects. Those default order by clauses can be easily changed with the Application Designer.This technique, used in conjunction with the automatic display of table results, can greatly improve the usability of […]
An outstanding tutorial from Daniel Ng explaining how to create a custom dialog box to send a report via email.The tutorial is very detailed and explains a lot of Maximo/TPAE stuff including: Create a custom XML dialog box Attach the dialog box to an application Associate a signature option to the dialog box Associate the custom dialog box […]
This entry is part of the Conditional Expressions HowTo. A very typical customization task is to restrict the visibility of data within Maximo/TPAE applications based on certain conditions.For example you may wish to hide all the purchase orders that have a total costs higher than 1000$ for a specific group. Here is a small tutorial […]
Maximo does not allow to delete applications from the Application Designer. However, there is a trick well hidden in the Application Developer Guide to accomplish this task using a SQL client. Note that only user defined application should be deleted. Out-of-the-box applications can be hidden using the standard Maximo security mechanism. It is better to […]