Yesterday Jason Snell (@jsnell) shared a link to his post about a Shortcut he found that will review your calendar and give you a list of dates/times you're available. At first this seemed like a "kinda of ok" Shortcut after I read Jason's post because the Shortcut only pulled …

The long holiday weekend allowed me to catch up on some reading ¹ and some more ideas on matching my macOS automations for my iPad. In preparation for upcoming posts, I started looking at ways to get image links easily formatted for my site.

Since I write in Markdown, inserting …

I've continued to experiment with the use of Maximo BIRT's hidden parameter. In my previous post I was able to display values that were generated by related information of the Maximo user who ran the report. But the original data selection used the hidden username parameter in the SQL where …

One of the common queries used by Maximo power users is:

siteid = (select defsite from maxusers where userid = :user)

This selection limits records to the default site the current Maximo user is checked into. So if a query is saved for future use, it will work with any site a …

One of the analogies I've used over the years is that out of the box Maximo is a giant lump of clay - it's fun to play with in its raw form, but needs to be skillfully molded to be useful. One of these molding steps is to put your organization's …