Moving Maximo business logic from Java classes into Automation Scripts on an example of generating custom Workflow Assignments

Posted on November 8, 2018 by Dzmitry Trubach

Maximo starting with version 7.5 allows customizations using scripting languages. This possibility significantly speed-ups deployment process, since no Maximo restart needed. Although the documentation limits the cases where automation scripts can be used with a several types of launch points, in fact you may invoke an automation script from any place of your business logic. In this article I’ll show you how to use a single automation script to generate assignments for all task nodes within a workflow process. This approach has the following advantages: You need only one custom role per w...

How to create a REAL multi select data bean in Maximo

Posted on April 16, 2015February 28, 2017 by Dzmitry Trubach

There is a multi select data bean (psdi.webclient.system.beans.MultiselectDataBean) exists in Maximo. It is actually used everywhere where you expected to select multiple rows from a list. However, the way it is implemented sometimes make users surprised. The most obvious problem that users complain about - is that whenever a filter is applied to the list - all currently existing selections in the dialog are lost: I understand, that per maximo design, setting a filter for the list forces reset of the current MboSet, so the existing selection cannot be kept. So, when users want to add e....