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Maximo Work Centers

February 18, 2020

The Personas

The Work Centers are role based and there are a set of personas which you can find in a MAXDEMO database. I couldn’t find a picture for everyone.

ABBY belongs to BIZANALYST, DATASETDESIGNER, MAP security groups
ALVIN belongs to INSPECTOR security group
ANDY belongs to WEATHERADMIN security group
ED belongs to SUPERVISOR security group
FRAN belongs to SELFSERVICE security group
FRED belongs to STOREROOMCLERK security group
JOEO belongs to MAXADMIN and SYSADMIN security groups
MARCIA belongs to the RELENGINEER security group
MAYA belongs to WCDESIGNER security group
SAM belongs to the TECHNICIAN security group
THEO belongs to INSPECTORSUP security group

5 responses to “Maximo Work Centers”

Jan-Willem Steur

February 18, 2020

Hi Andrew, great article!!

In Maximo 7.6.1.1 it is also possible to enter meter readings and downtime. Similar to Work Supervision, the Work Execution provides a map feature (same left handed navigation pane), but only support MX spatial maps.

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George

October 12, 2020

Is there a way to open tasks on the Plans tab of Work Execution? The task description cuts off at 41 characters and has no long description. No sure if this is supposed to open when you select it.

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1. maximosecrets
  
  October 13, 2020
  
  Hi George – In Work Execution Work Center on Plans tab you will have a card for each task, the description can be longer than 41 characters, I saw one of at least 50 that was not truncated, and there is a Long Description button, that looks like an eye. This is grey when there is no long description and blue when there is. This was on 7.6.1.2. The tasks long description shows rich text formatting.
  
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  1. George
    
    December 7, 2020
    
    Thanks Andrew. I’m looking at a number of tasks that are being cut off in Work Execution. All of them display the first 40 characters of the task description, followed by 3 periods. Since the task description field is set to 100 characters OOB, the long description field will be blank unless there is a description that goes over that. The only solution I see would be to copy and paste every task description to the LD field so they can be accessible from Work Execution.
    
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  2. maximosecrets
    
    December 7, 2020
    
    Hi George, not exactly 40 characters of the task description before the … it is variable. It hasn’t truncated the description, use the hover over to see the full description of the task. I wouldn’t copy and paste into Long Description and I would test first with a mobile device or tablet as the behavior may be different depending on device. If this is still a problem, hover over for example wouldn’t work on a mobile device, then in first instance create a case with Support – saying that you can’t see full task description. It may be that they treat this is a bug rather than an RFE, I think it should be the former – there shouldn’t be any reason why in Work Centers you can’t see the full task description no matter what device is used. regards – Andrew
    
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