Required Fields Not Validated, if Configured by Application Designer

Symptom

From the Work Order List Tab, in Work Order Tracking application, when records are selected from the list, if a status change is processed to change status to APPR, none of the requirements for fields being "Required" in Application Designer application, are validated and the status change completes. Therefore there are Approved Work Orders with missing required data.

Work Orders can be created in the system with required fields (configured via Application Designer) not populated with data depending on the source record.

Example - Work Order was created from an Service Request application, on Select Action -> create Work Order process.





Steps to replicate:

1. Go to Application Designer application, search for the Work Order Tracking application
2. On the main tab, make the Work Type field as required. (Changing the Input Mode for that field to "Required")
3. Save changes
4. Go to Service Requests application, and search for any SR in a QUEUED status
5. Go to Select Action-> Create-> Work Order
6. Take note of the work order that was created.
7. Go to Work Order Tracking application and search for the work order just created.
8. Go to the main tab and note that even if the Work Type field was made required in Application Designer, Maximo allowed the work order to be created with null data on that field.
9. Go back to the list tab, and make sure the work order just created appears on the records list.
10. Click on the "Select Records" check box, and then select the work order just created.
11. Click on the Change Status button.

The Change Status process is performed


NOTE - The Work Order is now in Status "APPR" with the required field Work Type empty. Field validation was not performed on the status change, Work Type is still empty.