Thursday, 14 April 2016

DOCLINKS Configuration (Attachments) | IBM Maximo

1. Create your doclinks folder
Create a folder, e.g. c:\doclinks
and a sub-folder, e.g. c:\doclinks\default

2. Configure System Properties
You need to configure the following system properties
  • mxe.doclink.doctypes.defpath => c:\doclinks\default
  • mxe.doclink.doctypes.topLevelPaths => c:\doclinks
  • mxe.doclink.path01 => c:\doclinks=http://<servername>/doclinks

Restart your MXServer.

3. Change httpd.conf (e.g. in my case C:\IBM\HTTPServer\conf\httpd.conf)
Open the httpd.conf and add the following section to the end of the file
Alias /doclinks "D:/doclinks"
<Directory "D:/doclinks">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>


Restart the HTTP Server.
You can than check if you can access your doclinks folder by entering http://<servername>/doclinks (e.g. http://localhost/doclinks) in your browser.

4. Configure Attachment folders in Maximo
Open any Application in Maximo (e.g. Assets) and select "Attachment Library/Folders > Manage Folders" by using Select Action.
Change the Default File Path for each folder in this list
suppose for images folder to c:\doclinks\images.
If the folder doesn't exist, it will be automatically created for you. Only c:\doclinks has to be already present.


9 comments:

  1. You can bypass step 3 if you make your defpath as part of htdocs (publically web access URL).

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  2. yes you are right, but If and only If one use default path.

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  5. Ken you will have to modify the Doclinks relationship on workorder object. please see the following link, this might help:
    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22002900

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  6. Good evening Umar, I follow all the steps you suggest in this post for the environment below:

    Maximo 7.6.1
    IBMHTTPServerV8.5
    IBMWAS85Service

    But when I try to view the attached file I received this message in the newly open tab.

    about:blank#blocked

    Can you help me with this issue, please.

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  7. How can we setup the shared doclinks in a the maximo cluster environment?
    Please suggest.

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    1. Same as this one. do it on one of the cluster nodes

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    2. I followed the above instructions & created the doclinks folder in one of the node. But when I tried login to another node I am able to see the document in assets but not able to read or fetch the documents. Can you please suggest any better way approach for these type of cluster environment.

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