BiLog: Reducing complexity in alarm clocks...and in Direct Duplex Printing

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My relationship with my alarm clock is complex.  Like my love-hate relationship with our office printer, I have implemented a system to smooth the abruptness of our interactions.  The actual time on the alarm is set to a time that I would like to see when I wake up – not the actual time.  This false alarm clock time has been derived over years and years of wake ups, and is not a simple value of 1 or 2 hours ahead.     However, when its loud alarm this morning caused me to go thru the multiple mathematical calculations to derive the actual time…I started questioning…isn’t there any easier way?

To enable this functionality prior to Maximo 7.5.0.3, you either had to add a single attachment to your record set or always include a dummy record set with an attachment as noted here.    While these work arounds enabled the functionality to work properly, they involve extra steps that are cumbersome for the user to perform and remember.

Now in Maximo 7.5.0.3, by simply setting mxe.report.birt.PrintSeparateRecord to true, when you direct print a report, each record will automatically start on a new piece of paper, while utilizing both sides of the paper.   No extra attachments have to be made.

To find a full listing of report property settings, including a downloadable pdf file, for the Maximo 7.5.0.3 release and earlier versions, click here.