Configuring apps with the Anywhere Administration application

As an administrator, you can use the Anywhere Administration application to configure data and settings for the mobile apps.

About this task

Using the Anywhere Administration application, you can perform the following configurations:
  • Specify global properties that apply to all apps. For example, you can set the default upload path for attachments or set timeout values for all apps.
  • Define queries for your primary work lists. These queries determine which records can be retrieved from the server by mobile users.
  • Narrow the scope of queries for lookup data. For example, you can use a WHERE clause to filter the result set of a query to match custom criteria.
  • Configure map settings.
  • Configure push notification events.
  • Manage your deployed apps. For example, you can activate a previously deployed version of an app.
When you define data resources, such as work list queries and map settings, in the Anywhere Administration application, these resources override any provided resources that are set in the app.xml file. You can define the group that can see the modifications to the apps, so that different users can see different types of data.

When you use the Anywhere Administration application to configure mobile apps, you do not need to rebuild and deploy the apps.

Procedure

  1. Access the Anywhere Administration application from the Integration module within Maximo® Asset Management and select the Maximo Anywhere app that you want to modify.
  2. Select the tab for the type of data that you are changing:
    Tab Data
    List Data Work list queries
    Lookup Data Downloaded
    Settings Maps
    Notification Events Push notifications
    Deployment App deployments
  3. Optional: To set the group for a data resource, in the row for that resource, select the Detail Menu icon, and pick a group from the list.
  4. To create a new query, click New Row and create a query. To modify an existing query, select the Detail Menu icons for that row, and pick new values for the query.
  5. Optional: To see a list of all the global properties that can be modified for the Maximo Anywhere mobile apps, click Anywhere Global Properties. Group settings are not enabled for these properties.
  6. On your mobile device, log out of the modified app and then log back in to it again to see the configuration changes in that app.