Today’s tip may come in handy when you need to quickly export a single report from Maximo. This one only applies to Maximo 7.5 (and 7.1 if you still live in the past). If you are 7.6 you likely won’t need to use this approach since 7.6 allows you to export from the UI.   This tip will be useful if you need to see the report that is running from Maximo but don’t have easy access to the server to run the command line export utility. I wouldn’t recommend this approach for multiple report designs but if you just need... [More]

This is a pesky little issue that may arise after an upgrade. We have a KB article for it, but given that we continue to get PMRs for this issue I think this blog entry is warranted. It’s a very simple solution – rebuild the request pages   You will know you have this issue if you see the following screen when you open the Run Reports menu:                   You will also see something similar to this in the system log: [7/31/14 14:44:48:033 EDT] 0000008c servlet E... [More]

This BLOG was edited on July 8, 2018. There have been some excellent comments and suggestions that I wanted to highlight in the body of the BLOG.  Refer to the Comments section for any additional information. Today we will discuss a couple of reasons why your users may be receiving multiple emails for a single scheduled report from Maximo. For example, the user has a weekly report sent to them yet, for some unknown reason, they get 2, or more copies of the report in their inbox. The "unknown" reason is usually one of two things.... [More]

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There is a known compatibility issue between Eclipse and Internet Explorer 11. The problem is that you do not see your parameters when trying to preview your report.  All you see is this:     Which is not very helpful!   IBM support has provided a workaround option that, initially, seemed to resolve the problem – at least with the Eclipse 371 release for Maximo 7.5. It seems that these changes do not always work with Eclipse 431 (Maximo 7.6). This solution goes as follows: 1) Close the Birt Designer and open the... [More]

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10 minute Tip - Birt Report Only Server (BROS) For this session we will discuss the Birt Report Only Server, or BROS (pronounced “B-ROS”, or “BROSE”, take your pick). Enabling BROS will balance report load processing and can improve overall system performance. The BROS will be utilized for most of the report processing – regardless of what clustered server the user may be currently connected to.                           A BROS server is, for all intents and purposes, another Maximo JVM. In this case, however, the JVM is not used for UI... [More]

The question of whether .msg file type is printable from any Maximo application has been raised in the past, more than once. This file type is only, currently, viewable by MS OUTLOOK( mainly used as an email application ), and if the user does not have this application installed, they won't be able to open and view .msg file type.   The expectation for this file type is to be able to attach, view and print successfully from Maximo application. However, this is a misconception when it comes to this particular file type. After further... [More]

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We use bind variables a lot in maximo. We are familiar with relationships like “ LOCATION=:LOCATION and SITEID=:SITEID ”, and conditions like “ :CLASS='INCIDENT' ”. “ :LOCATION ”, “: CLASS ” are maximo bind variable. They are resolved to the actual value of the specified attribute of the current business object. Current business object means the object that the expression is evaluated against. Depending on the context, it is the parent object that the relationship is defined on, or the object a condition is evaluated against. Less familiar to... [More]

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Conditional UI is a powerful tool that can change the behavior of your user interfaces based on the state of the current record or the role of an individual user.  See the Application Configuration Best Practices page for more details on what Conditional UI can do for your users. To implement some conditional user interface use cases, Maximo 7.x allows you to conditionally change the property values of your widgets.  This is controlled in the Application Designer application by launching the “Configure Conditional... [More]

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Is it possible to make a YORN field required?   This cannot be done with a YORN type attribute. The "required" input mode works when the field is null. So you cannot save the record if the field is null, because a value is required. However, the YORN field is never null. If the field is not checked, the value in the DB is "N". If checked is "Y".

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