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...

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. ...