Maximo

Does anyone know whether Maximo Mobile Technician app supports Workflow?

If not, any plans for it to do so?

If no-and-no, if you have work order workflow should this mean that you stop workflow around the point where the scheduler has scheduled (or before) so that work assignments/reassignment/rescheduling are outside of workflow and that INPRG and COMP status are set by the technician using native status changes. If necessary Workflow is picked-up again from COMP status? Note. This assumes the work order is planned rather than a dispatching process where the foreman/supervisor can continue the workflow.

Any thoughts?

Today we have support for auto initiating a workflow when a record is created similar to how it would function in a core application like WOTRACK (where after creation, the record immediately enters workflow). There is no progression of the workflow (IE completing an assignment) out of the box today. 

If customers want to manually start a workflow on a record (IE the route workflow in core Maximo), that is relatively easy for a customer to add. I'll try and get it documented on our community files (link available from here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6408032). 

If customers want to progress the workflow (complete an assignment, handle a manual input node, etc.), which it sounds like you need based on your use case, that's going to be a significant amount of effort. The REST API supports it so it's something the customer can add but it adds a dependency on connectivity that we try to avoid in Maximo Mobile today. Ignoring the multiple user problem (user A could complete an assignment that user B is going to try to complete), you can't handle a conditional node offline for example because that could be calling an automation script or executing database queries on data that you don't have on the device. Even completing the assignment can trigger notifications or actions that need to fire on the server.  The REST API process is documented in the Maximo REST API Guide here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/asset-facilities/viewdocument/maximos-rest-api-aka-json-api-os?CommunityKey=ed77c224-45e2-47b0-b574-cc31496f9a41&tab=librarydocuments

Does anyone know whether Maximo Mobile Technician app supports Workflow?

If not, any plans for it to do so?

If no-and-no, if you have work order workflow should this mean that you stop workflow around the point where the scheduler has scheduled (or before) so that work assignments/reassignment/rescheduling are outside of workflow and that INPRG and COMP status are set by the technician using native status changes. If necessary Workflow is picked-up again from COMP status? Note. This assumes the work order is planned rather than a dispatching process where the foreman/supervisor can continue the workflow.

Any thoughts?

Today we have support for auto initiating a workflow when a record is created similar to how it would function in a core application like WOTRACK (where after creation, the record immediately enters workflow). There is no progression of the workflow (IE completing an assignment) out of the box today. 

If customers want to manually start a workflow on a record (IE the route workflow in core Maximo), that is relatively easy for a customer to add. I'll try and get it documented on our community files (link available from here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6408032). 

If customers want to progress the workflow (complete an assignment, handle a manual input node, etc.), which it sounds like you need based on your use case, that's going to be a significant amount of effort. The REST API supports it so it's something the customer can add but it adds a dependency on connectivity that we try to avoid in Maximo Mobile today. Ignoring the multiple user problem (user A could complete an assignment that user B is going to try to complete), you can't handle a conditional node offline for example because that could be calling an automation script or executing database queries on data that you don't have on the device. Even completing the assignment can trigger notifications or actions that need to fire on the server.  The REST API process is documented in the Maximo REST API Guide here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/asset-facilities/viewdocument/maximos-rest-api-aka-json-api-os?CommunityKey=ed77c224-45e2-47b0-b574-cc31496f9a41&tab=librarydocuments

Does anyone know whether Maximo Mobile Technician app supports Workflow?

If not, any plans for it to do so?

If no-and-no, if you have work order workflow should this mean that you stop workflow around the point where the scheduler has scheduled (or before) so that work assignments/reassignment/rescheduling are outside of workflow and that INPRG and COMP status are set by the technician using native status changes. If necessary Workflow is picked-up again from COMP status? Note. This assumes the work order is planned rather than a dispatching process where the foreman/supervisor can continue the workflow.

Any thoughts?