Retrieving arguments from an API

The maintenance management system may provide an API to retrieve data from the user’s session. For example, Maximo 5 provides such an API in its JavaScript pages. This is the technique that the Asset Management Module uses for its Maximo 5 integration. The following example JavaScript expression retrieves the equipment number for the currently selected equipment.

<%=linkdoctree.getParent().getString("eqnum")%>

The returned value can then be integrated into the URL by writing code similar to the following example in the JavaScript page.

src=http://<ServerName>/ExplorerClient/Home.aspx?eqnum=<%=linkdoctree.getParent().getString("eqnum")%>

If the maintenance management system provides a similar API, this is the recommended way to obtain data from the user’s session.