Choices.   Every aspect of our lives is packed with them.    Firefox, Chrome or IE?   Small, Medium, Large or Jumbo?   Mouse or touchpad?   Blueberry pie – with or without ice cream?     Shoes, Sneakers or flip flops?   To tweet or not to tweet?    Keeping with that trend, we are now enabling you additional choices for your development of V7 reports with the delivery of Portrait Report Templates.  Report Templates are one of a few different ways your report developers can create custom reports in the Version 7 Report Design Tool.... [More]

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 QBE (Query by Example) is an excellent way for you to quickly take the results of your application query and/or filters and export them to Microsoft Excel.  You can then view each of the list tab fields, and perform additional analysis, combine the data with other queries, print, or save. However, often users want to see additional fields in the exported data.  And the fields that one user may want to see are not the same as fields another user may want to see.  You can modify the list of fields that displays with the Application Designer. ... [More]

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Recently there are some requests for information on, how to increase the Drilldown limit in Maximo and I have created this document that explains how to do that.   Drilldown Limit can be changed in two ways in Maximo, one is global level that effects for system and another way is by modifying the value (overriding the global value) for the tree control of the specific Drilldown. You can review the  Drilldown Limit or https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/maximo/Drilldown+Limit+in+Maximo

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  Problem     In Maximo we provide the capability to send Role based emails. A role is defined in the Roles application and is typically attached to a communication template while sending an email. Behind the scenes Maximo resolves the email addresses of the members in a role and sets the "TO:" field with a list of email addresses. However there is always a chance that one or more of these addresses on the list could be invalid due to a variety of reasons. When there are one or more invalid email addresses on the "TO:" list... [More]

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  While getting our English Bulldog ready for Halloween on Saturday (reference last week’s BiLog entry on an unexpected snow storm which delayed the Halloween Happenings!)....I kept thinking that in contrast to Max’s very stubborn demeanor….his costume is amazingly simple and flexible.     Max is a reindeer for Halloween, a reindeer for Christmas, and a reindeer again when we ring in the New Year! Just like Max’s diverse, flexible reindeer costume, Maximo reports are very flexible in that they can be executed against three different sets... [More]

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Maximo Asset Configuration Manager (ACM) is designed to manage the configuration management requirements of complex assets operating in the aerospace, defence and rail sectors where safety and regulatory compliance is of primary importance. One of the central components of Maximo ACM is the Build Data Interpreter (BDI). At it's most basic level the BDI analyses configuration managed Assets position by position to ensure that they comply with the configuration rules established in the corresponding model. That said the BDI is a pretty... [More]

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Dynamic Scheduling were introduced in Maximo Scheduler 7.5.2 release That allow clients identify new emergency work that has entered the schedule. Alert the user that emergency work has been found and that there are resources identified that are available to be assigned. Allow the user to choose an appropriate available resource or optionally make the assignments automatically. Users can configure what constitutes an 'Emergency' work order within their environment.   An example bringing Emergency Work Orders on Graphical Assignment... [More]

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Are the target dates for your SLA not calculating as expected? The setup of your calendars and shifts plays an important part in calculating the target dates for SLA.   Take a look at this new post and have it everything running smoothly.

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One W separates brownies from bronies.   Brownies are incredible, delectable chocolate goodness, while bronies are followers of a children's TV Show.  Bronies and their collections of Little Ponies have become increasingly popular in the Software Development world thru their features in Wired Magazine .   While I’m not a bronie, whenever I hear about software and collections, my mind jumps over to data collection.    Last week, I talked to a client about long descriptions, which are available in the various Maximo applications to collect large... [More]

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