This tip from IBM Support is very useful for adding a true/false lookup dialog for a parameter on the BIRT report request dialog. In the Maximo 7.1.1.4 release (and higher 7.1.1. fixpacks) and 7.5 releases, a lookup has been added for Yes or No values (YORN type). This lookup can therefore be used in BIRT [...]
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This STE will cover: – Understand Maximo’s Reporting Options – Understand the benefits of each option, and how they can be applied in your unique environment – Review Maximo’s Open Reporting Architecture and Options – Detail Report Upgrade Considerations 3. Enable interactive client question and answer period for any reporting question Date: September 20, 2011 [...]
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If you are already familiar with BIRT 2.3.2 then you probably don’t need to read this, but if not, then you can read up on it… To respond to today’s dynamic Business Environment critical business information needs to be immediately available. This business information can come in a variety of formats, and is often required [...]
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What are the out of the box reports that are delivered with Maximo 7.5? Over 140 reports are delivered in V7.5. These reports span the variety of applications, and include Analysis, Drill Down, Hierarchical, and Graphical Reports. The booklet contains information on each report’s file names, parameter, application toolbar settings, grouping, sorting and descriptions along [...]
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Here is a question that was brought to me and it’s an interesting one of course. I would assume that most places would probably find this useful especially when a PO or PR is approved and having it email a BIRT report in Maximo 7 automatically.  It would be a great feature to have. I [...]
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As some of you may know, IBM is no longer supporting Actuate as of October 2010, so if you are on Maximo 6.2.3 or below and you upgrade to 6.2.7, you will lose the ability to run Actuate reports.  Well, you won’t lose complete functionality but you will lose a lot of features as IBM [...]
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To me the BIRT report logos are unnecessary and take up too much valuable space on a report where the data is the most important thing on there.  But if you don’t want to have the “tivoli” and “IBM” logos displayed, you can always remove them from the report designer when developing the report, but [...]
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If your reports are getting stuck in the BIRT processing queue, you should read this help document [IBM Support] Related Posts:Maximo links of interest 7-28-2010Maximo links of interest 3-3-2010Hiding Sensitive Data via Data RestrictionsSetup FailureCode inbound integration objectCreate and setup a calendar in MaximoPowered by Contextual Related Posts Subscribe to the comments for this post? [...]
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