Have you ever struggled migrating configurations from Development to Test environment and then to Production?If the answer is yes, you are not alone. I think this is the one of the most common issues when managing multiple environments in medium-large Maximo projects. Keeping several Maximo environments in synch while ensuring a fast release cycle required […]
The hidden features of Work Logs
Work Logs are a very useful feature in Maximo and Control Desk products to allow users to keep notes of the progress of work. A very nice feature of work logs is that Maximo displays all work logs for the current record an related ones. Lets make an example. If there is a work log […]
Attachments (DOCLINKS) Configuration
This procedure describes how to set up attached documents in Maximo 7.1 and above with IBM WebSphere Application Server. In this procedure I will use [IHSDIR] and [DOCLINKSDIR] tags to identify IBM HTTP Server and attachments home directory respectively. Replace those tags according to your environment. Here are the default values. Windows [IHSDIR] – C:\Program Files\IBM\HTTPServer […]
SCCD 7.5 and Maximo 7.6 user interface System Properties
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 […]
How to set the date format in Maximo
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 […]