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Siebel – Symbolic Strings – Change default ‘X_’

This is a smaill tip I was working on, which got me interested in Symbolic Strings all of a sudden. We have already discussed previously about the Symbolic Strings
Siebel – Symbolic Strings
Siebel – Symbolic Strings – Usage

In the usage section we outlined how every new record is automatically prefixed with ‘X_’. This could be a typical problem, as in most of the projects we follow a specific naming convention for all the custom objects. This is also a recommended practice by experts for easy identification.

Let’s see if we have a requirement such that all custom objects in Siebel must begin with ‘GEEK_’ in place of ‘X_’, how we may implement this in case of Symbolic Strings.

Navigate to your tools.cfg corresponding to the your Siebel installation where you want to change this.
Navigate to the section titled, ‘[Siebel]‘.
Look for the parameter, “SymStrPrefix”

My guess is, you would find the following as per Siebel vanilla:

[Siebel]
; SymStrPrefix parameter needs to be X_ for Siebel Customers.
SymStrPrefix = X_

Now, change this value from ‘X_’ to ‘GEEK_’. The section should now look like:

[Siebel]
; SymStrPrefix parameter needs to be X_ for Siebel Customers.
SymStrPrefix = GEEK_

Save and close.

Voila! Now, if you try to create a new Symbolic String, it would be preceded with ‘GEEK_’ rather than Siebel OOB, ‘X_’.
Hope it helps somebody, someday!

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