Automation Script - get current date and time.

In automation script, there is no implicit variable available to get current date and time. I followed below procedure, to get current date and time to set date time field.

from java.util import Calendar

#Create a instance for Calendar
cal = Calendar.setInstance();

#Get Current date and time by using cal.getTime()
currentDateTime = cal.getTime();

#AS I AM APPLYING THIS SCRIPT TO WORKTYPE OF WORKORDER, ALREADY DECLARED VARIABLES FOR WORKTYPE as worktype AND TARGSTARTDATE as tsd

if worktype="CM":
 tsd = currentDateTime


Hope it helps to someone who are new to set date time in automation script.

 

Route stops data loading

While loading route stops, make sure below fields are exist in your file:

ASSETLOCORGID
ASSETLOCSITEID
ROUTESTOPID (This field is to provide sequence number of route stop for a respective route)

If those fields are not exist and trying to load route stops with locations, error will appear "XXXXX is not a valid location".

ROUTESTOPID will help to avoid routestop duplicates.
For example:
ROUTE,ASSETNUM,LOCATION,JPNUM,STOPSEQUENCE,SITEID,ROUTESTOPID
1001,,LOC1,,10,SITE1,1
1001,,LOC2,,20,SITE1,2
1002,LOC21,,10,SITE1,1
1002,LOC22,,10,SITE1,2
1002,LOC23,,10,SITE1,3
1002,LOC24,,10,SITE1,4

if you don't provide ROUTESTOPID, when doing routes data loading second time, it will add duplicate records.
Below format will create duplicate records in route stops:
ROUTE,ASSETNUM,LOCATION,JPNUM,STOPSEQUENCE,SITEID
1001,,LOC1,,10,SITE1
1001,,LOC2,,20,SITE1
1002,LOC21,,10,SITE1
1002,LOC22,,10,SITE1
1002,LOC23,,10,SITE1
1002,LOC24,,10,SITE1 

PM Records data loading

While data loading PM records, make sure USEFREQUENCY = 1 for frequency based PMs.

Otherwise, problem is, even though you saved the record, it will ask again to save the pm record. PM Work orders will not generate.

Actions in Maximo Integration Framework

Add – Add records
AddChange – Add or update existing records
Change – Update existing records
Delete – Delete records
Replace – Substitute existing records
null – Add records or replace records depending on whether the primary record exists in the database.

• If the primary record does NOT exist in the database, the system performs an Add action
• If the primary record DOES exist in the database, the system performs a Replace action.

Automation script syntaxes and examples

IBM provided automation script knowledge base 

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLKT6_7.6.0/com.ibm.mbs.doc/autoscript/t_ctr_automate_routine_app_tasks.html?lang=en

Maximo training videos

IBM Maximo Education Assistant:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/#!/tivoli_iea/com.ibm.iea.mam/mam/7.6/content_list.html 

Increase list of display applications in "My Recent Applications"

System properties has a property called "webclient.maxRecentApps".

Default value is 8.
Increase/decrease the value and save the record. Click on the 'Live Refresh' and click Ok.

The property will now be updated.

If you want to disable this option. Set value to 0 and save the record. Click on the 'Live Refresh' and click Ok.