Maximo 7.6 New User Interface Features

For existing clients upgrading to Maximo 7.6 they may miss some new features of the user interface (UI) because they are controlled by system properties set to zero for existing clients but set to one for new installations. The UI changes in Maximo 7.6 are:

• A new skin - tivoli13
• Start Center and Go To buttons are on the left
• Breadcrumb and List tab presentation changes
• Label positioning
• Hover dialogs
• Inline menu buttons
• Side navigation bar
• Recent applications
• Using relationships in Result Set definitions
• Guest login
• Improvements to clients using test automation tools
• Edit Mode – locking a record for editing

The main objectives behind some of these changes are to make Maximo more intuitive for a new user by adopting a more standard web UI design, reducing unnecessary information, and to improve efficiency for users, making it faster, reducing clicks, whitespace and horizontal scrolling. Some of these changes might be a bit of a shock for existing clients, hence why they can be optionally set and gradually introduced, or not at all. But there are some items here which are just simply great.