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.
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How to create a REAL multi select data bean in Maximo
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....
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Perl script to observe MBO usage statistics
I think that almost everyone who work with TPAE based products have to deal with SystemOut.log files and could observe MBO usage statistics being logged every minute. I mean the lines like that:
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[INFO] [MXServer] [] PLUSPAPPLLOC: mbosets (14), mbos (14)
[INFO] [MXServer] [] PLUSPAPPLSERV: mbosets (5), mbos (8)
[INFO] [MXServer] [] PLUSPBATCHSTHIST: mbosets (1), mbos (1)
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There is a Perl script that parses SystemOut.log files, fetches the lines like above and generates graphs that displays MBO/MBOSET allocation statistics. Simply run the mbouse.pl against a directory with a set...
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