This support question came up in our forum and a member by the name "sckl" (Thanks!) has posted a great answer. I figured I'd post it here for everyone to read. Question: Sites have tens of thousands of documents in a hierarchy folder structure … Read More
How many times have you written an automation script and just can't figure out how to import classes using jython? I'm no jython expert, but I can't count how many times I've googled how to format strings or concat a string and number to print to … Read More
One of the tedious steps of using LDAP with Maximo is the fact that you have to map users/groups to the Enterprise Application after you deploy the maximo.ear file everytime and if you forget, then your users won't be able to login to … Read More
For some reason, after upgrading to Maximo 7.5 some SYNONYMDOMAINS are missing such as LINETYPE, TOOLBARICONS, and ATTEMPTRESULT. You will see an error in the SystemOut.log for these missing values on Maximo startup. Here is the script to insert … Read More
I have recently been working on a Maximo upgrade from 6.2 to Maximo 7.5 and I have come across this error that doesn't really say much. Google didn't help much either and IBM support site has nothing on it. Eventually I figured out how to get … Read More
This has been asked in our forum (How to change default attach type for maximo 7.5, and thanks to Menno for the great tip that lead to this post) and it's probably one of the biggest annoying issues with Maximo. Have you ever noticed that when you … Read More
Maximo installations have come a long way since Maximo 5.2 as they have become much easier over the years. Maximo 7.6 improves on that even more. Here is a great detailed series on how to install Maximo 7.6: Installing Maximo 7.6: A first … Read More
There many ways to do this as I have talked about using global data restrictions before, but here is another great way to do it provided by Belinda Fuller using conditional expressions. This trick is a good one because I never really noticed the … Read More
Dion Marhue posted a great article on the differences of these configuration tools and gives a great explanation. It's worth a quick read. … Read More
I have posted about changing the Maximo skin before. But the question is, what are the available skins for Maximo 7.5? Well, there are officially 3, but there is really 4. The 4th one is for mobile.... classic (old and unsupported) … Read More
