Your series on customizing dialog boxes is certainly timely! I am working on a customization to the move/modify assets dialog which is contained in the library.xml (version 7.1.) I am adding three new attributes on the Users and Custodians ‘modify all’ tab.

Would I modify the bean class as above, or do I need to modify the mboname referenced in the XML (assetusercustdflt)?

Henry,
It depends on what you are trying to do. If you looking to add some special processing to the attributes, then the MBO Class would be the place to do that. If you wanted to add special processing to a field on the screen only, then you would need to create a custom field class. The DataBean class is for adding functionality to buttons and events on a screen.
MikeC

Thanks for the clarification, Mike.
What I am doing is adding three fields to the screen which will be updated whenever a user/custodian changes. These new fields will end up in the assetlocusercust table, but one of these may end up in the asset table. Would I use a custom field class to do that?

Henry,
Yes, you would add a custom user field class to the user/custodian field that would populate the your new fields. If you add the class to the field at the MBO, then it will work when a change is made from the screen or from other methods (like teh MEA, etc).
MikeC

Hi Mike,
This is still giving me an issue. I’ve done some experiments with changes to the bean as well as the AssetLocUserCust MBO.  In debugging, I can see that if I make a reference in the save method of my extension to the AssetLocUserCust MBO to the MBO referenced in the XML file like this:

AssetUserCusDfltSetRemote my_remote = (AssetUserCusDfltSetRemote) getMbo();

–  and then do something like this:

setValue(“MY_HAND_REC”, myRemote.getString(“HAND_REC”));
then I can see the value entered in the XML, but it isn’t saving into the table (AssetUserCusDflt, attribute HAND_REC).
I’ve tried the same thing with some dummy text instead of going after the value entered in the dialog, but without success.
If I were to re-do this using a field class, what method would I extend, since there does not appear to be a save() method? Would I use the same technique as above to get the value entered?
Thank you for your time and patience. I am still new at this, and information seems hard to find at times.

I tried this as a field class, but found that it didn’t fire.

Hi Guys,.... wonder if anyone can help,..

I have created a custom pop-up box in the Incident application.

This has a relationship to TKCHANGESTATUS

I have added the ‘memo’ field on to the popup box which is from the
TKCHANGESTATUS mbo,. This all works well and the status changes and any info i
put in memo appears in the view status history…. which is great,

What I am having issues with is,.

I also wanted to add on 1 incident field,.. (a custom date field). To get it on
to the pop-up box without getting any invalid binding errors I had to add a
section and link this to the INCIDENT mbo,... I was then able to add my field.
The issue is that If I type anything in to this incident field, it doesn’t
actually write it to the table,? or if this value is already populated, when I
open the popup box I would expect it to be populated?....

I have the ok button on the bottom of the pop-up box, which I would assume would
save the changes?

Hi Matt, I have come acros a similar situation and the only way I could get around it was modifying the maxattributes directly in the database.
In 7.1 I add a new MBO that is persistent ( I wanted to have the view in the database) and based it on a view.  When you create a new persistent view you have to specify the object you are extending in my case the PO table.  Adding the extra fields as attributes I retrive from the view the default is to set them as non persistent and user defined.  This means they do not get populated from the view.  After setting them in maxattributes to persistent and not user defined, they will be populated if they have a value in them, and although I am only using them as display, I would forsee that they then do get written to the database.  I am not sure if this is a bug or I am just not seeing the option in my system.
But setting the maxattribute fields to persistent not user defined worked for me.  Make sure you set them in maxattributecfg as well and make a change in the database configuration so that the meta data etc is built correctly.

Let me know if this works for you.

Cheers,
Jason

Hi

  I’ve extended the combobox’s showmenu.jsp to include a new event.  How can I extend the DataBean class to call that new event.  I decompiled DataBean and threw the new method in there and it worked, but that’s not good.  I’d rather extend vs. overwrite DataBean.

Hi, I just stumbled across this blog looking for some information. I know this is totally unrelated to the post above, but I figured there should be some people reading this that are knowledgeable about Maximo. I am looking for a list that contains contidional properties and their values that tells me what I can and cannot use in the conditional properties of a field, button, or any object in App Designer (as in inputmode - required, for instance).
IBM (whom we have a support contract with) told me they do not have such a list - be it internal or available to the public.
Is there anyone who knows, at least some, of these properties and their values?

I would forsee that they then do get written to the database.  I am not sure if this is a bug or I am just not seeing the option in my system.

Christian,

The best I can do is point you do the IBM docs (but I am not sure you will find what you are looking for. I have put together some links to IBM documents: http://www.planetchrisman.com/maximo.html.

MikeC

Speaking of dialog boxes….
When adding a new file in Add New Attachements Dialog box, is there any way to get the ‘Select a Folder’ (DocTypes) to come back sorted?  IBM did not include an order by - and Oracle will not bring back the data sorted.

Any ideas>

Indy,

Sorry, no idea.

MikeC