I recently received a question regarding the ability to edit the Service Request detail screen in the application designer in Maximo 7. Actually, it was more along the line of where can I find the detail screen in the application designer? Of … Read More
You can set default filters for workorders in Maximo, by setting the default where clause in the application designer. You can set it so that when a user first opens the workorder module, only the PM worktypes are queried. The user can still … Read More
In Maximo 4.1.1, you used to be able to select a laborcode or craft on a workorder. Now in Maximo 6 and 7, you can't even select either one. You now have to select a person ID for the lead field on the workorder. I am not completely sure why IBM got … Read More
The workorder assignment manager already has a built in color code scheme where it changes the font color of the rows depending on what the priority of the workorder is. We can expand this functionality to other modules as well such as the Workorder … Read More
I recently got a great question from Ernie. The question was this: Would you happen to know how to hide the Person Group tab on select ownership menu option? I need to be able to assign an owner and owner group. I have already creating a lookup … Read More
An iframe control can be useful in many ways to add extra functionality to your existing Maximo implementation. You can use this method to host our EZDash solution. This little tip on how to create an iframe control in Maximo doesn't involve any … Read More
I found this great IBM support site that has a few short flash demos/tutorials for doing various tasks in Maximo 7. Here is the complete list of flash videos. How to edit screens in Application Designer How to add objects and attributes … Read More
Before version 6.2.2, you can have more than 2 icons for Direct Print reports in the Application Toolbar. After this release, you can no longer to that unless you modify the system XML to do so. You can modify the library XML to do expand the … Read More
Have you been in the location or asset drilldown dialog box and seen the node "...This level has reached the set display limit..."? That is because the drilldown limit for child nodes is set to 50. You can change this limit to 5 or even 200. This is … Read More
To enable long description functionality to a field in application designer, you must first set the field to be a long description owner. After you've done that, you set the 'Lookup' property to LONGDESC for the field in application designer. I will … Read More
