Sometimes you need to ensure the uniqueness of a certain database column in the Maximo database. A common example of this scenario is to ensure that asset’s serial numbers are not duplicated. This can prevent the creation of duplicate assets. In this post I describe two techniques to achieve this using a unique database index […]
Send Work Order Calendar invitations
In this article I will show how to send calendar invitations to workers with work order details and reminders for the activities. The calendar event can have a link to Maximo in order to report progress or close the work order using the standard Everyplace or Work Centers interface.
Improved Automation Scripts application
Maximo automation scripts are a very useful tool to implement custom business logic for your customer. After time you may have many scripts to maintain and it may become hard to understand all the logic you have implemented on a specific object. I easy and useful trick I always use is to modify the Automation […]
Maximo Scripting – Library Scripts
This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. Library scripts are good for encapsulating some re-usable logic. In Maximo 7.6, we can write library scripts as just simple scripts. We can write these scripts in any language and then call from another language. Lets make a library script for making HTTP […]
Service object methods in automation scripts
The service object has been added in Maximo 7.6 script and is very useful in several scenarios. Here is a list of available methods. For more details refer to this page. Logging getLogger(loggerName) log_debug(logMsg) log_debug(logMsg, java.lang.Throwable t) log_error(logMsg) log_error(logMsg, java.lang.Throwable t) log_fatal(logMsg) log_fatal(logMsg, java.lang.Throwable t) log_info(logMsg) log_info(logMsg, java.lang.Throwable t) log_warn(logMsg) log_warn(logMsg, java.lang.Throwable t) log(logMsg) logError(logMsg) […]
Maximo 7.6 Scripting
Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide is a great source of information but it has been released only in PDF format so it’s poorly indexed by Google. I have split it in small articles and shared here in order to be easily searched over the internet. Library Scripts Warnings and Errors Yes/No/Cancel dialog Before Save, After […]
Maximo Scripting – MMI
This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. Maximo Management Interface provides a set of apis (REST/JSON apis) that helps a system administrator gets some insights on the state of the maximo runtime. The root url for that api is: GET /maximo/oslc And then you can dive deeper into each server […]
Maximo Scripting – The mbo.add() method
This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. It’s a common thing to conditionally set some defaults when a new mbo gets added. We have so far leveraged the Object Launchpoint Init event to do that. We would need to check for onadd flag there to make sure we are adding […]
Maximo Scripting – Validation of non-persistent MBOs
This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. Adding validation to the virtual (aka Nonpersistent) mbos (on execute 7609 feature). In this sample we are going use the change status dialog from the Asset Application to validate if the memo is filled in when the Asset status is set to BROKEN. […]
Maximo Scripting – Cron Tasks
This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. Starting 76 we can write scripts for cron tasks too. It follows the same principle as the endpoint handler. We have a cron class – com.ibm.tivoli.maximo.script.ScriptCrontask that helps achieve this. We need to register that class as a new crontask in the crontask […]