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Maximo 6.2.6
I am trying to make a custom app. In that app, I want either a hyperlink or a pushbutton -- I don't care which -- to open another app. I can't seem to get it right. Can someone help me out here? (Yes I've read the App Designer documentation and searched IBM's online info and searched through this forum).
The best I've gotten so far is that I can get it to launch the other app in a new window. Instead, I want to leave my custom app and launch the other app in the same tab, same window. If it helps, I want it to take the user to the Issues and Transfers app, for now. Until I build a clone of it; then I'll want it to go to the clone.
Travis Herron
Not sure how to implement the exact same thing you were looking for. Having
said that, did you check out the option of using Hyperlink on a textbox ?
-Praveen
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Travis Herron <therron@pcci.edu> wrote:
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> Maximo 6.2.6
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> I am trying to make a custom app. In that app, I want either a hyperlink
> or a pushbutton -- I don't care which -- to open another app. I can't seem
> to get it right. Can someone help me out here? (Yes I've read the App
> Designer documentation and searched IBM's online info and searched through
> this forum).
>
> The best I've gotten so far is that I can get it to launch the other app
> in a new window. Instead, I want to leave my custom app and launch the
> other app in the same tab, same window. If it helps, I want it to take the
> user to the Issues and Transfers app, for now. Until I build a clone of it;
> then I'll want it to go to the clone.
>
> Travis Herron
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I am not sure if you have already tried this but Maximo has a Launch in Context feature. You can achieve what you are looking for using this feature. You have options to define if you want the app to open in the same browser or a new one.
Ravi
From: Travis Herron
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 10:06 AM
To: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [MAXIMO List] help with pushbutton or hyperlink
Maximo 6.2.6
I am trying to make a custom app. In that app, I want either a hyperlink or a pushbutton -- I don't care which -- to open another app. I can't seem to get it right. Can someone help me out here? (Yes I've read the App Designer documentation and searched IBM's online info and searched through this forum).
The best I've gotten so far is that I can get it to launch the other app in a new window. Instead, I want to leave my custom app and launch the other app in the same tab, same window. If it helps, I want it to take the user to the Issues and Transfers app, for now. Until I build a clone of it; then I'll want it to go to the clone.
Travis Herron
I did, but there's no textbox value I'd be supplying. I need just static text in some way.
I basically want to present the user with two choices. These are static text, and I don't care if it is presented to the user as static text, a link, a pushbutton with text on it, or whatever.
If you click one choice, it needs to take you "somewhere," in the same window, same browser tab. Click the other choice and it would take you to a different "somewhere," but still in the same browser window/browser tab.
Those "somewheres" -- I'd like them to be custom apps, but I'd settle for different Maximo application tabs in the current application if I had to. I can get it to move forward one tab or backward one tab, but I'd at least need it to be:
I'm on tab 1. If I make choice A, take me to tab 2 (and I can do that). If I make choice B, take me to tab 3 (which I can't get it to do).
Travis Herron
--- In MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com, Praveen M <praveen.muramalla@...> wrote:
>
> Not sure how to implement the exact same thing you were looking for. Having
> said that, did you check out the option of using Hyperlink on a textbox ?
>
> -Praveen
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Travis Herron <therron@...> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Maximo 6.2.6
> >
> > I am trying to make a custom app. In that app, I want either a hyperlink
> > or a pushbutton -- I don't care which -- to open another app. I can't seem
> > to get it right. Can someone help me out here? (Yes I've read the App
> > Designer documentation and searched IBM's online info and searched through
> > this forum).
> >
> > The best I've gotten so far is that I can get it to launch the other app
> > in a new window. Instead, I want to leave my custom app and launch the
> > other app in the same tab, same window. If it helps, I want it to take the
> > user to the Issues and Transfers app, for now. Until I build a clone of it;
> > then I'll want it to go to the clone.
> >
> > Travis Herron
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Are you trying to open a specific record in the application or just essentially adding a "shortcut" to the other app?
If you use a Hyperlink Control, you could set the URL to something similar to this: http://hostname:port/maximo/ui/?event=loadapp&value=appname
Replacing the hostname, port, and appname. This will open the application like you want, but when I tested, it was in a new tab / window. Not sure how to make the hyperlink control override the current window. Perhaps playing around with a Lauch In Context to add a button to the toolbar or something along those lines will get you what you're looking for.
--- Sean Clark-McCarthy
From: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Travis Herron
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 9:41 AM
To: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [MAXIMO List] help with pushbutton or hyperlink
I did, but there's no textbox value I'd be supplying. I need just static text in some way.
I basically want to present the user with two choices. These are static text, and I don't care if it is presented to the user as static text, a link, a pushbutton with text on it, or whatever.
If you click one choice, it needs to take you "somewhere," in the same window, same browser tab. Click the other choice and it would take you to a different "somewhere," but still in the same browser window/browser tab.
Those "somewheres" -- I'd like them to be custom apps, but I'd settle for different Maximo application tabs in the current application if I had to. I can get it to move forward one tab or backward one tab, but I'd at least need it to be:
I'm on tab 1. If I make choice A, take me to tab 2 (and I can do that). If I make choice B, take me to tab 3 (which I can't get it to do).
Travis Herron
--- In MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com<mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com>, Praveen M <praveen.muramalla@...<mailto:praveen.muramalla@...>> wrote:
>
> Not sure how to implement the exact same thing you were looking for. Having
> said that, did you check out the option of using Hyperlink on a textbox ?
>
> -Praveen
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Travis Herron <therron@...<mailto:therron@...>> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Maximo 6.2.6
> >
> > I am trying to make a custom app. In that app, I want either a hyperlink
> > or a pushbutton -- I don't care which -- to open another app. I can't seem
> > to get it right. Can someone help me out here? (Yes I've read the App
> > Designer documentation and searched IBM's online info and searched through
> > this forum).
> >
> > The best I've gotten so far is that I can get it to launch the other app
> > in a new window. Instead, I want to leave my custom app and launch the
> > other app in the same tab, same window. If it helps, I want it to take the
> > user to the Issues and Transfers app, for now. Until I build a clone of it;
> > then I'll want it to go to the clone.
> >
> > Travis Herron
> >
> >
> >
>
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Yep, essentially a shortcut, either to another app or another application tab (not a browser tab) in the same app.
I could only get the hyperlink to work by opening a new window, as you said.
Launch-in-context is something in 7.x. I'm still on 6.x.
I guess I'll have to put this on the shelf until we upgrade.
Travis Herron
--- In MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com, Sean Clark-McCarthy <smccarthy@...> wrote:
>
> Are you trying to open a specific record in the application or just essentially adding a "shortcut" to the other app?
>
> If you use a Hyperlink Control, you could set the URL to something similar to this: http://hostname:port/maximo/ui/?event=loadapp&value=appname
>
> Replacing the hostname, port, and appname. This will open the application like you want, but when I tested, it was in a new tab / window. Not sure how to make the hyperlink control override the current window. Perhaps playing around with a Lauch In Context to add a button to the toolbar or something along those lines will get you what you're looking for.
>
> --- Sean Clark-McCarthy
>
> From: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Travis Herron
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 9:41 AM
> To: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [MAXIMO List] help with pushbutton or hyperlink
>
>
>
> I did, but there's no textbox value I'd be supplying. I need just static text in some way.
>
> I basically want to present the user with two choices. These are static text, and I don't care if it is presented to the user as static text, a link, a pushbutton with text on it, or whatever.
>
> If you click one choice, it needs to take you "somewhere," in the same window, same browser tab. Click the other choice and it would take you to a different "somewhere," but still in the same browser window/browser tab.
>
> Those "somewheres" -- I'd like them to be custom apps, but I'd settle for different Maximo application tabs in the current application if I had to. I can get it to move forward one tab or backward one tab, but I'd at least need it to be:
>
> I'm on tab 1. If I make choice A, take me to tab 2 (and I can do that). If I make choice B, take me to tab 3 (which I can't get it to do).
>
> Travis Herron
>
> --- In MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com<mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com>, Praveen M <praveen.muramalla@<mailto:praveen.muramalla@>> wrote:
> >
> > Not sure how to implement the exact same thing you were looking for. Having
> > said that, did you check out the option of using Hyperlink on a textbox ?
> >
> > -Praveen
> >
> > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Travis Herron <therron@<mailto:therron@>> wrote:
> >
> > > **
> > >
> > >
> > > Maximo 6.2.6
> > >
> > > I am trying to make a custom app. In that app, I want either a hyperlink
> > > or a pushbutton -- I don't care which -- to open another app. I can't seem
> > > to get it right. Can someone help me out here? (Yes I've read the App
> > > Designer documentation and searched IBM's online info and searched through
> > > this forum).
> > >
> > > The best I've gotten so far is that I can get it to launch the other app
> > > in a new window. Instead, I want to leave my custom app and launch the
> > > other app in the same tab, same window. If it helps, I want it to take the
> > > user to the Issues and Transfers app, for now. Until I build a clone of it;
> > > then I'll want it to go to the clone.
> > >
> > > Travis Herron
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