Application development

You can modify existing applications using the Application Designer application. You can also use Application Designer to export XML presentations, which you can then modify using a text editor before importing them with Application Designer.

To configure existing applications in IBM® Maximo® EAM SaaS, you use the Application Designer application in a non-production environment to modify application presentations. You can request the nonproduction environment from IBM support.

In a nonproduction environment, Application Designer provides features to update application presentation files. In addition, there are features in the Database Information and Object Structures applications that you can use when configuring applications. To facilitate configuration, extra supplemental attributes are also provided for some objects.

After you complete configurations in the nonproduction environment, you export the presentation file or files from Application Designer.

To implement changes in your production environment, first back up the existing application presentations in the production environment. Then, import your modified presentation files and review the results.