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 …
Getting ISO Date & Day of Week in BIRT
I was recently asked a very specific request from an end user about a date format in a report. The requirement was to have the the date in the report come out as ISO 860 date format and include the day of the week in parenthesis. So if the date …
Getting multiple records to show inline in BIRT
One of the first rules I learned when creating reports was to get your report's select
statement to do as much of the work for you. When the select
statement is properly formatted, the statement can do a lot of the functional work you'd have to setup in BIRT. This …
Creating a Row Number in a Grouped Detail
I've been working on a way to review with my power users how they've setup their Start Centers. The goal was to ensure suggested Start Center setups were in place and to see if any custom setups should be shared with other sites. This required getting a snapshot of what …