Once you have imported users into Maximo, the next step is to import labor codes.  This is a simple tutorial that will show how  import labor codes into Maximo with the Integration Framework.  If you are migrating users from one Maximo system to another or just plain upgrading, you can import labor codes and also [...]
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I have previously shown you how to import users so this tutorial will show you how to import data via interface tables and set the users security groups.  You will be able to set a users security group to defaults such as EVERYONE, DEFLTREG and even MAXADMIN security group. Related Posts:Import data with Maximo Enterprise Adapter [...]
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Maximo has a powerful feature that can take the load off of both user and administrator. A common example of a request a Maximo administrator may get is, ‘Is there anyway I can avoid typing in this list of 286 new inventory items into Maximo?’. In older versions of Maximo (e.g. 4.x and 5.x), an [...]
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There is a built in object structure called MXCLASSIFICATION that we will use to import classification hierarchies and also the classification attributes using the Maximo Integration Framework (MIF). I will be using my default method of importing data which is by way of interface tables. If you aren’t familiar with interface tables, you can read [...]
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In this tutorial, I will show you how to setup object structures and enterprise services to import PM’s that use PM sequencing. PM sequencing or job plan sequencing is when you want to use a different job plan on one PM when the it is generated into a workorder. The topic of job plan sequencing [...]
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There seems to be some trick to really getting the locations and location hierarchies to be imported into Maximo correctly with the Integration Framework.  I have tried many things to get this to work and I here is what I have come up with.  This tutorial comes with an excel file that I manually created [...]
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There is already a guide to import failure codes with Maximo 6 and MEA but it seems as though this guide isn’t really useful for Maximo 7 and the Integration Framework.  Initially, I thought it the guide provided by IBM for Maximo 6 would of been enough, but when I tried to create an import [...]
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This tutorial will show you how to export a PERSON record into excel or a CSV file that you can use as a template for importing PERSON records with Excel. Firstly, this process is pretty much the same as a previous tutorial I did on exporting and importing with XML files and also a screencast [...]
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