IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
In a previous post I have explained how to force the reload of a the start center for a specific group of users.I have now developed a useful automation script that can be invoked from the Security Group application to automatically perform this task with just one click.Register the script as a Script with an […]
We all know that Maximo allows the definition of new internal values for synonym domains. A common example is the LOCTYPE domain that defines the allowed values for the LOCATIONS.TYPE field.If we want to implement a special business logic for the OPERATING type of locations we can write something like this in our automation script. loctype […]
In my last project I had to implement a customization to send SMS messages using Skebby. The service APIs are obviously based on REST and JSON so I ended up writing an automation script to integrate Maximo with the Skebby service.In the process of writing the code I have faced (and solved) some interesting issues […]
Maximo has a feature that automatically populates the asset when a user enters a location and viceversa. This is a feature may be useful for most clients but some other clients don’t like this behavior. Unfortunately Maximo does not have a built in switch to disable this. The best solution to solve the problem is […]
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 […]
The Mbo class exposes a lot of setValue methods but we can categorize them in two big groups. The first group accepts only two arguments that are the name of the attribute to be set and its value. The second group of methods have three arguments that allows to pass an additional accessModifier flag.The values that can be passed into […]
Scripting is a powerful new feature that was introduced in Maximo 7.5.Checkout this hidden Scripting with Maximo guide from IBM lead developers. A very comprehensive list of examples is available here.My colleague Mathias has also a very interesting blog on scripting. Other articles and resources Launch report Automation scripting and email listener All scripting articles […]