This entry is part of the Conditional Expressions HowTo.
A very typical customization task is to restrict the visibility of data within Maximo/TPAE applications based on certain conditions.
For example you may wish to hide all the purchase orders that have a total costs higher than 1000$ for a specific group. Here is a small tutorial about how you can achieve this.
Open Administration - Conditional Expression Manager application and create the following conditional expression.
- Condition: POCOST
- Description: Total cost is less than 1000
- Type: EXPRESION
- Expression: totalcost<1000
Now go to the Security - Security Groups application. Choose the desired group and open the Data Restrictions tab.
Create the following Object Restriction:
- Object: PO
- Type: QUALIFIED
- Reevaluate: true
- Condition: POCOST
If you now logon with a user belonging to the chosen group and open the Purchase Orders application you will see that only POs with a total cost of less than 1000 will be listed.
There are three types of object restrictions that may be used to accomplish different goals:
- Hidden: The objects for which the condition is evaluated to true will be displayed as XXXXX and cannot be selected.
- Qualified: The objects for which the condition is evaluated to false will be hidden.
- Readonly: The objects for which the condition is evaluated to true cannot be updated.
Labels: application, conditional expression, intermediate, tpae
