Maximo - Configuring and Customizing Administration Applications

When it comes about the configuration and customization in Maximo, its mostly about the business concerned applications. I have hardly seen any configuration for any administrative application at least among 5-6 projects I have worked with.

One of the opportunity to configure an admin app , I see in Security Groups Application under the Application Tab. When one need to grant access to multiple options for multiple groups for example during the first implementation it really becomes a very irritating job that need lots of patience as Maximo performs very slow here and does not allow you to move to next option unless the previous one is checked following all the internal validations.

We have done few things here that really saves lots of time.

1. Added a row highlighter to identify if a signature option has been configured to be granted for EVERYONE group (red color), for the same group opened on the screen (blue color) and rest the default black color. It really helps to identify easily what signature option has been configured for an specific group including EVERYONE that must be granted access and hence helps in other groups to exclude these signature options (related to EVERYONE group).
2. Added a field from CTRLGROUP.GROUPNAME Table through relationship from SIGOPTION Table. This helps to filter all the records of either type from point 1. So if I am on EVERYONE group, I just need to filter data using EVERYONE word and it will list all the options that must be granted. Similarly in other groups I can exclude options related to EVERYONE group.
3. Added the field SIGOPTION.OPTIONNAME before the description. This might not help admins if they are not involved in designing application Designer but its very useful for developers when they need to work as admin.
4. A button at the bottom most table labeled as "Grant Listed Options for This Application" configured with the help of automation script, similar to the button in above two tables on the same screen. Since this button works on automation script , it does not refreshes the screen like other OOB buttons but simply it works perfectly. I was having a task to deal with 60 Groups with 13 options for 3 different applications and this saved a lot of time converting 13 clicks into 1 with the help of filter and this button.

This was just one of the example of an opportunity to configure an admin app.There might be many more. Would be happy to hear from others experience.