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Allow Technicians to View Work Order History on an Asset Without creating a new Work Order

The added business value is to provide fast and intuitive access to the asset work history, via the Technician Role Based App. Via Maximo Manage, this is already possible, using the Work tab in the Assets application. Via the Technician Role Based...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Mobile / Technician Not under consideration

Enable Zoom In/Out Functionality in Maximo Mobile Windows Client

We request the ability to zoom in and out within the Maximo Mobile Windows Client application, similar to the browser zoom capabilities available in desktop web browsers (for example, Ctrl + Plus, Ctrl + Minus, Ctrl + Mouse Wheel, and Ctrl + 0 to ...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Mobile / Technician Under review

Start and Complete assignments in Maximo mobile without affecting the work order status

In Maximo 7.6 and Anywhere, with customization it is possible to work with Assignments when having one or more technican working on a work order. The planner creates work orders, assigns labor resources and approve the work order. The technici...
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Mobile / Technician Under review

Technicians need to be able to add a URL attachment

Currently the Technician app only allows a user to add a new file attachment to a work order. They can see URL based attachments and launch the external link when online but they cannot create a new URL Link. Experienced Technicians who see that a...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Mobile / Technician Not under consideration

Technician (RBA) - User should be able to define their default query which is used each time they log in to the app.

Some customer sites will work on a different basis to using the standard query based on Assigned Work - My Work Order may be a better query for them. A user at the start of the day may need to work on - PMs due this week - as a priority over other...
11 months ago in IBM MAS - Mobile / Technician Planned for future release

Enable Asset downtime reporting

Technicians currently can report asset downtime on a Manage WO in WOTRACK via the More Actions >> Report Downtime. Within that resulting dialog, there are entries for asset status change with coding, which TECHMOBILE currently has, as well a...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Mobile / Technician Planned for future release

User-Controlled Online and Offline Mode for Technician Application

Currently, the Technician application operates in Offline mode by default. Users must manually select “Check for Updates” to synchronize transactions with the server, which can be time-consuming and inefficient. We would like to introduce an optio...
10 months ago in IBM MAS - Mobile / Technician Functionality already exists

Ability to add planned labor and/or assignments to "Create Work Order" and "Create Follow Up Work Order" screens

When an adhoc work order is created via Mobile (or Follow Up Work Order), there is no ability to leverage core Maximo's planned labor or assignments functionality. In a real world scenario, a technician identifies an issue, can create a SR or WO (...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Mobile / Technician Functionality already exists

When user selects a Push Notification, the specific Work Order referenced in the Notification should open to the Work Order detail screen.

The Technicians are asking for a simpler navigation experience from a Push Notification to the related Work Order. Current behavior:1. Push Notification displays successfully on a Mobile Device.2. The Notification also successfully displays in the...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Mobile / Technician Planned for future release

Improvement to Material Request from Technician - Item selection

While requesting material (unplanned) in Technician- user need to know additional info - Remaining quantity of item in stock, lotnumber etc to choose item from storeroom
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Mobile / Technician Future consideration