How To Create A Custom Dialog Box In Maximo Allowing User To Email BIRT Report

This is a comprehensive tutorial on how to create a custom dialog box in Maximo allowing user to email BIRT report as attachment. While this tutorial is about a very specific functionality, the overall aim is to use this example as a segue to introduce a few useful and common concepts to those who are new to Maximo/MBO customization,such as:

• How to create a custom dialog box in Maximo.
• How to associate a custom dialog box to a custom toolbar button.
• How to add functionality to the dialog box via custom AppBean class.
• How to programmatically assign default value to dialog box controls.
• How to programmatically retrieve data from the current MBO record and also from the dialog box.
• How to generate a report programmatically.
• How to work with logger.
• How to display custom message to user via message box.
• and etc.

As mentioned, this is a comprehensive tutorial. Meaning it will be lengthy as I walk you through the entire process from start to finish. Since it is impossible for me to cover every single detail, I expect you to know some basics.

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