Export to Excel from UI table with customized set of attributes

Posted on March 27, 2018March 27, 2018 by Anastasiya Air

Basic Maximo functionality of downloading UI table content allows to export only the attributes displayed on the interface as table columns. Sometimes it may be necessary to export data with additional attributes that may belong either to the table MBO or to related MBO's. For example, we want to export related work orders from Service Request application. If you export data via the “Download” link, the output xls file will contain only fields that are displayed in the table as columns: - Work Order - Description - Class - Status - Relationship The problem is that there is no...

Using Java to start/stop workflow in Maximo

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Anastasiya Air

Sometimes you may need to start a workflow automatically but the standard functionality of escalation is not satisfying the needs of business logic. For such situations you can use a cron task to search the records and system service WorkFlowService to start a workflow. For instance, we need to start a workflow (process name PMWF) for periodical maintenance record (custom mbo PMCUST) when there comes a time specified in PLANNEDYEAR, PLANNEDWEEK attributes. Here is an example of the cron task: If you need to stop a workflow in java code, first you should get the workflow instance. ...