UI Conditional Expression Manager in Maximo and IBM Control Desk

In Assets application

Asset 12345 is an IT asset. It will have the following features:

• Label of Asset field is blue and says ‘IT Asset’
• Safety Tab is displayed
• Change Status is enabled
• The ‘Usage’ field has 7 values in the lookup
• Serial Number is a required attribute

Asset 12346 is a Facilities asset. It will have the following features:

• Standard label
• Safety Tab is not displayed
• Change Status disabled
• The Usage field has 2 values in the lookup
• Serial Number is not required

Configuration

Conditional Expression Manager

• Condition – TYPEIT
• Description - Asset type is IT
• Type – Expression
• Expression - :assettype = ‘IT’

Application Designer

New SIGOPTIONS for Asset application

• SAFTAB with the description Safety Tab

New Control Properties

• Safety Tab 
• SIGOPTION of SAFTAB
• Asset field

·         SIGOPTION of READ

·         Conditional Properties

·         Group = CUIGRP

·         Condition = TYPEIT

·         two true properties

1.    Property – label

·         Property Value – IT Asset

2.    Property – labelcss

·         Property value – txtblue

Security Groups

·         CUIGRP Group

o   Applications Tab

§  Assets Application

·         Change Status granted in condition TYPEIT

·         Safety Tab granted in condition TYPEIT

o   Data Restrictions Tab

§  Attribute Restriction

·         Object:= Asset

·         Attribute = SERIALNUM

·         Type = REQUIRED

·         Condition - TYPEIT

Domains

• USAGE domain
• BaseWS, StandardWS, SalesWS, Server and ProWS  values have TYPEIT condition
• FLEET and MOTORPOOL values have no condition