Adding Custom Hovers On Field Using Relationships | IBM Maximo

IBM Maximo has provided default Hover windows for some fields. We will explain how to add custom hover window in maximo using custom relationship.

If you want to display the PR Line Item record hovering. The custom relationship can be used with PRLINE object relationship to INVENTORY to retrieve storeroom item information.

• Go to Database Configuration
• Object: PRLINE 
• Create Relationship: PRL_INVENTORY
• Child Object: INVENTORY.
• Where Clause: itemnum=:itemnum and itemsetid=:itemsetid and location=:storeloc and siteid=:siteid

• Go to Application Designer
• Open PR application
• Select the item field right click go to properties
• Add the below information Hover Window ID PRLITEM_RECORDHOVER
• Hover Window Attribute PRL_INVENTORY.ITEMNUM

• Now export the RECHOVERS system XML file and add the below.

<!-- New added -->

 <recordhover id="PRLitem_recordhover" relationship="PRL_inventory">
  <recordhoversection id="prl_item_rhs_1" label="Item Details">
   <recordhoversectioncol id="prl_item_rhsc_1">
    <recordhoversection id="prl_item_rhs_2">
     <recordhovermultiparttextbox dataattribute="item.itemnum" descdataattribute="item.description" id="prl_item_rh_1" label="Item"/>
     <recordhovertextbox dataattribute="minlevel" id="prl_item_rh_4" label="Min Reorder Point"/>
     <recordhovertextbox dataattribute="orderqty" id="prl_item_rh_5" label="Economic Order Qty."/>
     <recordhovertextbox dataattribute="binnum" id="prl_item_rh_11" label="Bin"/>
    </recordhoversection>
   </recordhoversectioncol>
   <recordhoversectioncol id="prl_item_rhsc_2">
    <recordhoversection id="prl_item_rhs_3">
     <recordhovertextbox dataattribute="invbalances.curbal" id="prl_item_rh_2" label="Current Balance"/>
     <recordhovertextbox dataattribute="lastissuedate" id="prl_item_rh_6" label="Last Issue Date"/>
     <recordhovertextbox dataattribute="issueytd" id="prl_item_rh_7" label="Year to Date"/>
     <recordhovertextbox dataattribute="issue1yrago" id="prl_item_rh_8" label="Last Year"/>
     <recordhovertextbox dataattribute="issue2yrago" id="prl_item_rh_9" label="2 Years Ago"/>
     <recordhovertextbox dataattribute="issue3yrago" id="prl_item_rh_10" label="3 Years Ago"/>
    </recordhoversection>
   </recordhoversectioncol>
  </recordhoversection>
 </recordhover>

Note : The relationship entered in the header level if the relationship used in the recordhoversection it will have invalid bindings. If you had as below:

 <!-- New added -->
 <recordhover id="PRLitem_recordhover">
 <recordhoversection id="prl_item_rhs_1" label="Item Details" relationship="PRL_inventory">
  <recordhoversectioncol id="prl_item_rhsc_1">
   <recordhoversection id="prl_item_rhs_2">

• After adding the PRLitem_recordhover to the XML save and import.
• Now go to PR application, bring up a record
• Hover to the Item field the information correctly displayed.

Umar Adil