For a long time I've always promoted the idea that a report should have flexibility with date ranges. Either the report should allow a user to select a date range or include rolling date ranges. To match this philosophy, we have have several reports that include rolling date range, but …
Incorporating Location Hierarchy on WO Print
My company has recently been challenged with how we're using Maximo. On one front we're deploying Maximo to new sites that are transitioning off of another EAM platform. On the other front we have a facility that's tripling the size of the installed asset count. Both sites are dealing with …
Maximo's Built In Sharing Service
One of the challenges in my Maximo environment is an efficient way to keep and store 'living documents'. A lot of us have Dropbox, Box, SharePoint, etc., but most of those services are either restricted from widespread access (Dropbox) or have a versioning system (SharePoint) that can make keeping living …
A conference that turned into a community
Community
It’s not normally the word you’d think of when describing your experiences at a conference. A conference is supposed to be about travel hassles, hotel reservations, PowerPoint slide decks, and bad diet choices. But this conference felt different before I even arrived. MaximoWorld 2017 was held at …
Using Maximo to help train users on queries
One of the challenges Maximo administrators face is getting a good user to get to the next level of experience in using Maximo. The biggest gain I think a power use can make is being able to transition from searches using the List Tab/Advanced Search to modifying searches in …