Creating GIS Objects in Maximo Spatial 7.6 with Feature Services

Answer

To create an object this way, you will need to use a map service that has the Feature Services available and enabled. If this is not enabled, this process will not work.

For an example, let's use the Feature Service provided by Arcgis Online:

http://sampleserver6.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/rest/services/Water_Network/MapServer

Please follow the steps below:
1) In the Map Manager application, create a new Map (or open an existing map)
2) Select the Map Provider (Maximo Spatial)
3) Select the Site that will be used for the Map. You can choose to set the Initial and Full extents


It should look similar to the image below:

Moving forward, let's now prepare the Map Service:

1) In the Map Services section, create a new row
2) Enter a name, and in the URL field, paste the feature service referenced above
3) Enter Order: 1 and set the Map to be visible.

This should now look like the following:

Now let's create the Objects!
1) In the Service layers, click "Select Layers"
2) Select the Layer you are going to use as a Service layer. (Water Hydrants for example)
3) Open the details of the Service layer you've added, and you should see a few required fields
4) In the "GIS Object Name", specify a name for the GIS Objects you'll create. Eg: WHYDRANT
5) Select the Parent MBO this object will be associated to (assets, location etc). In this case, select asset.

Notice that the System of Record is automatically chosen. For Assets, Locations, and Service addresses the system of record is usually ArcGIS. Workorders and SRs are usually Maximo

You should see similar to the following:


And Finally, click the "Execute GIS Configuration"

Notice a page with Select Attributes appears. Select the Attributes that you would like to display and then click OK. This will now create the Object

Now, let's define it's relationship to the Maximo Object and our Identifier will be the FacilitiesID

1) Go to the DB Configuration application
2) Search for, and bring up Assets object
3) On the attributes, click new row
4) In the "Same as Object", select the WHYDRANT we've created and "Same as Attribute" as FACILITYID



Save the record, and apply the configuration changes for the DB.

Finally, let's go back to the Map Manager application. In the Service layers, click the "create/update GIS relationship configuration" and then "new row" button

Add the Attributes as follows and then click OK:


And That's it! Your feature object is now created and configured!

In the future, if you need to migrate these configurations across another Maximo Spatial 7.6 environment, instead of configuring these all again, you can follow the link below:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21981228