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Using URL to link document to multiple assets

From: Klemenok, Eric (2014-04-15 15:44)

We have thousands of documents on a shared network drive which are structured with a basic Hierarchy of folders.
We have many situations where a specific pump is installed in 100 locations within a large plant.
The intent is to have the Pump Manual linked to all these Assets within Maximo.
Instead of attaching the document to 100 Assets, we want to use a URL path to the original document so we can maintain just one version....instead of 100.
You can put in a URL to any place on the web and it will work but a URL path to a file that is in a folder structure on a shared drive will not.
IBM says they never had that design in mind and don't support that approach.
Anyone have any suggestions ? Is this really just a security or access issue ? a Websphere issue ? or what ?
Anyone have this working ?
Regards,
Eric Klemenok 254 230 5399


From: wwilliams (2014-04-16 09:59)

Check out Launch in Context, I just got it working for a file share that was unreachable from the Maximo server.
 
-W
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We have thousands of documents on a shared network drive which are structured with a basic Hierarchy of folders.
We have many situations where a specific pump is installed in 100 locations within a large plant.
The intent is to have the Pump Manual linked to all these Assets within Maximo.
Instead of attaching the document to 100 Assets, we want to use a URL path to the original document so we can maintain just one version….instead of 100.
You can put in a URL to any place on the web and it will work but a URL path to a file that is in a folder structure on a shared drive will not.
 
IBM says they never had that design in mind and don’t support that approach.
 
Anyone have any suggestions ?  Is this really just a security or access issue ?  a Websphere issue ?  or what ?
Anyone have this working ?
 
Regards,
Eric Klemenok   254 230 5399