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User1974
User1974

Reputation: 396

Maximo Linear: Define work order start/end measures by clicking map?

I have the Linear add-on in Maximo.

The Linear add-on allows me to define work orders on portions of linear assets. (This technique is known as linear referencing.)

Example:

I am able to define the Start Measure and End Measure in the work order by manually typing numbers into the fields:

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However, it would be more practical if I could define the Start Measure and End Measure by clicking the start point and end point on the line in the map (instead of entering/guessing manually).

How can I define WO start/end measures by clicking on the map?

(Version 7.6.1.1; Maximo Linear; Maximo Spatial 7.6.0.5)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 353

Answers (2)

Milton
Milton

Reputation: 121

Spatial is intended as a framework for customization. You would need to build a widget that understands the relationship between the geometry layer and the linear value set up in maximo. Hopefully this data would be synced so it would match fairly exactly, Maximo linear length = shape.length in GIS. After that you have to set up snapping to the line and evaluate the chosen point against length. We had issues with lines drawn the wrong direction when building this for a dataset and had to do a big data clean before deploying.

Upvotes: 2

Preacher
Preacher

Reputation: 2145

Linear and Spatial are completely independent products with some "functional space" overlap. They overlap because they both have coordinates, but they are otherwise quite different in where data gets stored, which system does what work, and what system of reference is used. If both are used, I expect there would be a lot of data inside Maximo in Linear that was a duplicate of what was outside Maximo in the Spatial service provider (usually ArcGIS).

To solve your problem, you would need to define some line-type feature class in Spatial and configure it for use by work orders. Then, for work orders of that feature class, you could have an automation script (invoked from a button?) to translate that Spatial-Line information into the Start Measure and End Measure data you want for your Linear. And that's assuming you can have the WO be flagged as both Spatial and Linear -- which I think you can do, but I could very well be wrong.

Upvotes: 1

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