How to change Maximo skin

As you probably know, in recent versions of Maximo IBM has introduced a new look of the user interface.
The two available skins are called classic and tivoli09. The following screenshots show the two looks.

Skin: classic

Skin: tivoli09

The new skin is available starting from Maximo 7.1.1.5 although it may not be set as the default one.
You can easily switch between the different skins in several ways described hereafter.


Set the skin globally
The setting used to determine if the new skin should be used is different depending on the Maximo version:
The procedures to change this setting are obviously different.

TPAE 7.1

TPAE 7.5


Set the skin for a single user session

To use a specific skin you can append the following parameter (prefixed by a & character) to the link used to launch Maximo.
For example to use a classic skin on Maximo 7.5 you can use a link like this: http://[MAXIMOHOST]/maximo/webclient/login/login.jsp?welcome=true&skin=classic


Set the skin for a specific application

To apply the new GUI skin to an individual application, perform the following steps:

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