Contracts rates Vs rates on PRs/POs

If you have mentioned a direct issue item with rate (unit cost) & suggested vendor in a Work Order and approved it. If there exists a contract for the same item and also during reordering process, if Consider Contracts When Creating PRs/POs? checkbox is checked, MAXIMO’s reorder process will ignore the rate and vendor mentioned in Work Order, and will consider the rate and vendor from Contract.

Courtesy: An old compilation from Infy Team

Filtering records in maximo

You use List tab in an application to search a particular record based on search criteria mentioned in list tab or advanced search. Hence, you can search for all the approved Work Orders by mentioning status as "APPR" in search criteria, which internally works as SQL LIKE statement. 

If you want to search all the work Orders which are either waiting for approval or are approved, you can mention "WAPPR, APPR" in status field of search criteria, which internally works as SQL LIKE OR statement.

Similaly, you can mention "=WAPPR, =APPR"  or "%APPR%".

Courtesy: An old compilation from Infy Team

Duplicating a record in maximo

Maximo provide a functionality to duplicate an existing record (like Work Order, Assets, Location, etc). By using this, MAXIMO copies almost all the information from the existing record into the new record. Some of the fields which are very specific to the existing records are not being copied like Schedule, Target Dates in a WO.

If you have created some extra customized fields in an application, then new field information also get copied to the new record.

Courtesy: An old compilation from Infy Team