Author: Umar

Maximo: How to fetch selected records from an Automation Script

Maximo: How to fetch selected records from an Automation Script

In most Maximo applications like Work Order Tracking or Assets, the list of selected records can get retrieved as follows: where service is an implicit variable automatically defined by the framework. It could be a bit tricky to get selected records in uniquely designed applications like Assignment Manager. The way to figure it out is…

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Adding user-defined operations to a Maximo application

Adding user-defined operations to a Maximo application

We can have user-defined operations in Maximo by adding menu items to an application using Application Designer. The functionality of the menu item can be implemented in various ways: invoke an action launch a dialog invoke an automation script invoke a method in Java class Here is how to implement each one of them: Add…

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Load Testing with JMeter – Tips and Tricks

Load Testing with JMeter – Tips and Tricks

Increasing the heap size By default, JMeter uses 1 GB of heap memory. This may not be enough and you may encounter an Out of Memory exception. Maximum Heap memory size can be increased to say 2GB by adding the following line in JMeter startup script: Xmx2g means maximum heap size is set to 1…

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JMeter: Use multiple user logins for load testing

JMeter: Use multiple user logins for load testing

Thread Group simulates a number of virtual users putting the load on the server. Often one of the initial requests is user login and depending on the user credentials specified in the login call, all threads will be using the same login. If you want each thread spawned by the Thread Group to use a…

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Introduction to Load Testing with JMeter

Introduction to Load Testing with JMeter

JMeter is a load testing tool to measure the performance of web applications. It is open-source and written in Java. Key concepts in JMeter JMeter test script is developed by adding components in the Test Plan pane on the left side. To get a general idea about the components and what can be achieved, let’s…

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Mind Mate v0.7 Released: Built-in and custom Themes

Mind Mate v0.7 Released: Built-in and custom Themes

Download Link: MindMate 0.7 The major enhancement in this release is the support for themes. There are 11 built-in themes: A built-in theme can be applied from the following option: Now, there is also a capability to customize themes or create your own. Using the Default Format dialog, we can set the default font, colors…

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CSS in Svelte

CSS in Svelte

Svelte is a front-end framework for web development, you can find more about it here. This post is about using CSS in Svelte. CSS in Svelte Components CSS styles specified in Svelte components are scoped to the component itself, meaning they don’t affect anything outside the component. Svelte compiler achieves this by making appropriate changes…

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Svelte – a difficult kind of UI Framework

Svelte – a difficult kind of UI Framework

Svelte is a front-end framework for web development like React, Vue and Angular. In a short time, Svelte has become very popular as you can see from ‘State of JS’ survey or the stars on it’s GitHub repo. Single Page Application (SPA) These UI Frameworks enable us to create single-page applications where most of the…

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Create Masonry Layout with CSS (Grid with variable-sized contents arranged in columns)

Create Masonry Layout with CSS (Grid with variable-sized contents arranged in columns)

Source code for examples in this article can be found at https://github.com/umaranis/css-masonry-layout In Masonry layout, variable-sized items are arranged in columns. It is different from a regular grid in the sense that it doesn’t have fixed-sized rows. Pinterest is a popular example of the masonry layout. The layout looks beautiful and makes efficient use of…

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