Maximo Anywhere notes to rememmber

MaximoAnywhere App development points that some people might find to be useful:

1. Use an xml editor like in eclipse with xsd validator to avoid errors
2. The App XML XSD is very useful in finding out possible attributes/values and elements while designing the application
3. Different types of events in Application elements include click|changestate|datachange|render|validate
4. Resouces in the Anywhere Application use OSLC Resources defined in Maximo environment
• OSLC Resources use Integration Objects (consumedby=OSLC)
• Integration Objects have OS Security Authorization
• OS Security can be either App Based or OS based, it can be configured by using the Configure Object Structure Security and selecting the below checkbox.

• When its APP Based Access to that OS can be granted from Security Groups App using application authorizations tab
• When its OS Based you can grant using Object Structure authorization tab in Security Groups App.

1. Use might have to use eventContext.viewControl.refresh() sometimes after updating DOM in the application to avoid undesirable glitches
2. For setting fields to Required/Readonly on the screen use

var mbo = CommonHandler._getAdditionalResource(eventContext,"sr").getCurrentRecord();

var person = incident.getRuntimeFieldMetadata('person');

person .set('readonly', true);

person .set('required', false);

1. Sample Validate method
validateFieldtype: function(eventContext){


			var currSR = CommonHandler._getAdditionalResource(eventContext,"workorder").getCurrentRecord();
			var fldType= currSR.getPendingOrOriginalValue('myfield1');
			
			if(!inctype) {
				currSR.set('myfield','');
				return;
			}

			var myFieldsDomain = CommonHandler._getAdditionalResource(eventContext,'myfieldsDomain');

			CommonHandler._clearFilterForResource(eventContext, myfieldsDomain);
			

                        //Searches the value being set in the resource

                        //find method searches the value against the expression below
			var isValidType = myFieldsDomain.find('value == $1', fldType);
			
			if(isValidType.length == 0){
				currSR.set('myfield2','');
				throw new PlatformRuntimeWarning('invalidType');
				return ;
			} else {

                                //Set related field using the value in the resource
				currSR.set('myfield2',isValidType[0].description);
			}
			return;
		}

Installation notes:

1. App Container and Maximo Anywhere can be installed without any access to Maximo environment using the existing files.
2. You can build android/ipa files using the AppContainer without any Maximo Access as long as all the configuration and steps are followed as per IBM and all compatible libraries are available.
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