Alternative way of generating reports in IBM Maximo using JavaScript

Posted on April 24, 2018April 24, 2018 by Artyom Shimanski

By default, IBM Maximo comes with several reporting tools: BIRT, Cognos Reporting, and Query Based Reports (Ad Hoc). The platform allows you to integrate external reporting systems, such as: Hyperion, Information Builders, SAS, Oracle BI and many others. We have already covered in our previous article how to extend the standard functionality of the IBM Maximo system (Ad Hoc) and allow users to download data from tables with a given set of attributes in Excel. In this article will talk about an alternative way of generating Excel reports in IBM Maximo. Standard reporting systems have a numbe...

Adding new item to the Maximo Application Designer palette

Posted on February 8, 2018February 8, 2018 by Artyom Shimanski

In the previous article, I explained how to create a custom progress bar control for IBM Maximo using the magic of the Twitter Bootstrap framework. Within the framework of this article, you will learn how to add custom controls to the Application Designer palette. Creating an MBO object for temporary storage of control properties Each control that is present in the Application Designer palette has a number of properties that can be changed by the developer after adding the control to the workspace of the Application Designer. In order to define a dialog which will be used to specify control'...

Creating custom progress bar control for IBM Maximo using the Twitter Bootstrap framework

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Artyom Shimanski

In this tutorial I will show how to create custom components and controls for IBM Maximo system. The presentation XML of any application consists of tag elements which are controls. The control is an object that enables user interaction or input, often to initiate an action, display information, or set values. The control is based on one or more components linked together. In other words, the component is part of the control. At the beginning of this article I'll tell you how to register new components and controls, which files to modify and then we go through the steps of creating progress ba...