How to add the Map control from Maximo Scheduler to any Maximo application

Author: Rafael Thomas Goz Coutinho, Advisory Software Engineer

Maximo Scheduler 7.5.1.0 introduced the new Map component. The Map component allows users to visually see Maximo entities with actual geographic locations. This empowers the user to have a geographic information system (GIS) in Maximo and to be able to easily establish geographical relations to improve the decision-making process.

This article describes how to add the new Map control to any Maximo application using Application Designer.

Adding Map Control to a Maximo application using Application Designer

Application Designer is a tool that lets you configure the user interface for Maximo applications to meet your specific business needs. The easy-to-use Application Designer interface enables you to change the appearance of Maximo applications without editing a line of code. The drag and drop functionality built into Application Designer greatly simplifies the process of using this tool. The Map component is available in the Application Designer toolbox making it easy to add to any Maximo application.

In this section we describe how to add a new tab to the Item Master application.

Open Application Designer:Go to -> System Configuration -> Platform Configuration -> Application Designer.
Filter the application column with Item string. Select the Item Master entry and click on the Workspace tab.

On the Workspace loaded with the Item Master application design open the Control Palette using the toolbar menu:

Use the Control Palette items to create a new tab (using the Tab control), click on that newly added Tab and add a section inside the new tab. You can also click on the new tab properties and set its label to "Map".

Now you can add the Map control into the new section using the Map Control component from the Control Palette:

The Map Control has properties that allow users to deeply customize this component. See references for the links to the documentation of all the properties.

To enable the ability to set a marker on the map edit the map control and uncheck the Map is read only check box

Save the design for Item Master.

Having a valid Map Manager configuration go to Item Master application (Go to -> Inventory -> Item Master). Open a record and click on the Map tab.

The Map is added to the application.