IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. Maximo 7.5 scripting supported only the “Before Save” events in the Object Launchpoint. Although that is the most common place where we do customizations, we often see the need to attach some customizations at the after save and after commit events – mostly […]
This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. YNC (Yes, No, Cancel) interactions can now be implemented using automation scripts. We need to do some prep work before writing the script. First we need to define a message that support the YNC interaction. Make sure you have the message as informational […]
This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. Maximo errors in 7.5 version used to get done by setting errorgroup, errorkey and params variables (full example here). Setting those did not stop the execution, as the execution will continue till the end of that script and then it will check the […]
I want to share a small trick I have learned from this presentation. It is an undocumented feature of Automation Scripts that will automatically launch a script based on a special naming convention. For example if you want to run a script each time a ASSET object is saved you just have to create an […]
Today I faced an interesting problem. My customer asked to be able to search work orders with specific values in one of the custom fields I have added few weeks ago to the Work Order Tracking application. Easy I said. I know I just need to add that custom fields in the ‘searchmore’ dialog of […]
Automation scripts are undoubtedly a powerful feature but we all know there are some limitations. For example automation scripts cannot be used to handle user input in a custom dialog box. This is because the scripting engine runs in the businessobjects layer which is below the maximouiweb layer that can handle DataBeans and user interface […]
A common requirement from my clients is to track how much time work orders have been in each status. IBM Maximo already has the Work Order History dialog that displays the date and time of each status change. Unfortunately it may be not straightforward for a user to calculate the time spent in each step […]
One of the fist lessons I have learned through all these years as Maximo consultant is that every time there is a default value for a field the user will not change it. A very common example of this is the Folder field of the Add Attachment dialog. The value of this field will always […]
I have to admit, I’m a big fan of automation scripts.Recent updates released with Maximo 7.6.0.9 have almost covered all the possible customization needs including library scripts, REST APIs, MIF processing, before/after save event. All the new features are well documented in this somewhat secret document. However whatever nice feature will be added in the […]
Today I had to face an issue deleting a large set of records from a Maximo table using an automation script. My script was something like this. mboSet = MXServer.getMXServer().getMboSet(“MYTABLE”, mbo.getUserInfo())mboSet.deleteAll()mboSet.save() Unfortunately the table I had to purge (MYTABLE in the example) was having more than 5000 rows so when I launched the script I […]