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Siebel Admin Mode Flag – II – Issue Log

Madhvi Arora — Mon, 17 May 2010 04:19:54 +0000

In the last post I described about Admin Mode Flag. However, the Admin mode flag is not always the Best way to go forward. It also comes with lots of perils of its own.

We faced certain problems on setting Admin Mode Flag which are:
1) Product Configurator does not work properly in Admin Mode. It throws error on loading as “Cannot load active Business Component”. So we had to remove the option of customizing products in Admin View
2) Since BC User properties do not work in Admin Mode, if you have invoked any method using Named Method, it will not work. You will need to invoke method through some other way in Admin view.
3) When we navigate from a Admin View to non-admin view in the same screen (if both non admin and admin views under same screen), BC User properties will be ignored even in non-admin view as we have navigated from admin view. So, this effects the functionality implemented for Non Admin view.
4) Related to same point above, if you are navigating from Admin View to non-admin view in the same screen, visibility settings will be ignored and all records will be visible under Non Admin view.

Please share your comments if you have faced any other problems in Admin View. Looking forward to a healthy discussion around this.

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Siebel EIM – Nomenclature of Custom Column

Himanshu Bajpai — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:40:45 +0000

Previous post regarding new custom columns mapping in EIM table seems very useful for Siebel developers. Especially, the ones that are planning a new move to this territory of Siebel. Brijesh has written it beautifully which you can read from the link below:
SIEBEL EIM – CUSTOM COLUMN MAPPING

I have also applied the same tips given in SIEBEL EIM – CUSTOM COLUMN MAPPING. In one of our implementations, we have number of custom columns in S_ORDER table and have the requirement to update two of the existing custom fields X_TEST_DUMMY_COLS_VALUE and X_TEST_VAL.

I have used EIM Table Mapping wizard and applied the changes on EIM_ORDER table for validating upon the two custom column I have found two new EIM column respectively named-
ORDTESTDUMMYCOLSVA and
ORD_X_TEST_VAL.

It is quite strange for me because why Siebel has also used discrimination like human being!

Then we have analyzed the Siebel mechanism and it is given below – Siebel will allow only 18 characters for EIM column Name. If it exceeds the length then first Siebel erase the “_” from right. If still it is not fit within 18 character then it will be truncated from right. It prefixes EIM columns as ORD or AST to the EIM_ORDER, EIM_ASSET. So guys now if u designs a custom column then make its length short to recognize respective EIM column easily with some standard name.

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Siebel EIM – Custom column mapping

brijesh — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:45:03 +0000

It’s a very basic concept explaining how we can generate EIM mapping for custom columns. You need to follow some steps as mention in the post below.

This topic was a Tutorial Request from one of the associates on GeeksBlogging@dotCOM. The associate had asked as to how do we map the custom columns created in the BC to the EIM tables.

1. In object explorer select “Table” and query for base as well as for corresponding EIM table. For example here I am taking example of S_ORG_EXT and corresponding EIM table EIM_ACCOUNT. Lock both these tables.

2. Select S_ORG_EXT and right click for “EIM Table Mapping…”

3. “Interface Table Mapping” window will open now you have choice of column prefix name that is optional, because it will be automatic taken care by EIM. Second select EIM table that you have locked. Here it is EIM_ACCOUNT.

4. Click next and verify table and column and click finish.

5. Unlock both these tables.

6. Check for you custom column mapping. EIM will generate mapping for all unmapped custom columns.

7. Once this mapping is generated apply and activate the same on server or if you are working on local then do it at your local DB.

Your entire table mapping is completed now enjoy with your custom column.

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Siebel – Looping multiple records – Query and Process

Nitin Jain — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:10:40 +0000

In my last post, I discussed as to how we can query and update multiple records in Siebel Database. You can find it in the link below:
Siebel – Looping multiple records – Update.

Today, let’s see if there are some good ways to loop through multiple records in Siebel in Query mode, and process the data in each of the records one by one. Let’s assume the requirement statement is, “To query for these multiple records and send them to external interface one by one”.

One of the easiest solutions, use scripts! I am extending the example I used in the previous post:

var bo_Order = TheApplication().GetBusObject ( “Order Entry (Sales)” );
var bc_Order = bo_Order.GetBusComp ( “Order Entry – Orders” );

with (bc_Order)
{
ClearToQuery();
SetViewMode(AllView);
ActivateField ( “Status” );
SetSearchSpec ( “Account”, “Nitin Test Account” );
ExecuteQuery ( ForwardOnly );

var IsRecord = FirstRecord();

while (IsRecord)
{

// Call another workflow / BS to process the data.. send to external interface in this case..

IsRecord = NextRecord();
}
}
return (CancelOperation);

Anybody who can possibly think of a better solution?

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Siebel – Looping multiple records – Update records

Nitin Jain — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:56:51 +0000

Hi,

We often come across a requirement where we need to loop through multiple records satisfying a certain search spec on a particular BC.

Let’s assume a simple search spec, for eg. to update the Status of all Sales Orders to Submitted which have their Account as “Nitin Test Account”.

One easy way to do it through Siebel scripts is maybe a pseudocode as follows:

var bo_Order = TheApplication().GetBusObject ( “Order Entry (Sales)” );
var bc_Order = bo_Order.GetBusComp ( “Order Entry – Orders” );

with (bc_Order)
{
ClearToQuery();
SetViewMode(AllView);
ActivateField ( “Status” );
SetSearchSpec ( “Account”, “Nitin Test Account” );
ExecuteQuery ( ForwardOnly );

var IsRecord = FirstRecord();

while (IsRecord)
{
SetFieldValue ( “Status”, “Submitted” );
IsRecord = NextRecord();
}
}
return (CancelOperation);

Or, a more elegant approach which I personally prefer for the above solution, use a workflow. Use the step Siebel Operation.
The Siebel Operation, Update operation, will automatically update all the records satisfying that particular Search Spec fed in as Input.

One line solution to nearly 10-15 lines of script!

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Siebel – Reading data directly from Siebel SRF

Nitin Jain — Sun, 10 May 2009 18:05:25 +0000

SRF or the Siebel Repository File as it is more commonly known, is the binary representation of data in Siebel Tools. Siebel Application refers this file for many of the objects and data in Siebel. This greatly helps performance as the data is already available in compiled form to the runtime instance at the time of execution. On the other hand, there are many other objects or data houses in Siebel which don’t form a part of the SRF, and are compiled at runtime. And thus, are slower. For eg. Client side Business Scripts.

“Every now and then, there comes about a thought powerful enough, to make me sit straight in my chair and start hitting the keyboard!!” – Nitin Jain

When I first looked at this problem statement on one of the public forums, it got me thinking. I had already been thinking about it for some time, just that wasn’t really implementing the possible solution to this. In this blog post, I will demonstrate how I read the data from the Siebel SRF, and exposed its objects to me.

I did this with the Business Services which are from one of the objects that you generally compile from Siebel Tools into the Siebel SRF.

I noticed that Siebel generally accesses all objects in the Siebel SRF using special Business Components (dare I call them virtual!!).
For accessing the Business Services, it uses the Business Component called, “SRF Service”. From my experiments, it seems that this Business Component returns the list of all the Business Services compiled into the SRF, and also, those that are present in Siebel Web Client.

Similarly, siebel uses the BC, “SRF Service Method” to get the list of all the available Business Service Methods from the SRF.

I noted that these Business Components are not mapped to any particular Business Object in Siebel. So, for my experiments, I created some custom Business Objects using these Virtual BCs exposing the Siebel SRF functionality. After creating Applets, Views, etc. you can see what I ended up with in the image below:

Siebel SRF - List of all BS

Similarly, for all the different entities in Siebel Tools, which upon compilation go into the Siebel SRF, Siebel has exposed the list through these Business Components. You can see the complete list by typing out, “SRF*” against Business Components in Siebel Tools.

Let me know what you think about it. You can add your comments to this thread.

From when I started working on this problem, I got this within the first 10 minutes. So, I guess this is very very limited and there must be much more. I would appreciate if people with better insight could add to the understanding for all of us here.

“Knowledge is the only thing in the world which grows by sharing”. So, “Let’s Share!!”

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Siebel – Unable to launch Local Client

Nitin Jain — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:09:20 +0000

Hi all,

I was making a fresh install of Siebel yesterday, when something very strange happened. I could not launch my Local Client. This was even more strange because:
1) I could successfully launch my Sample Client
2) I could successfully launch my Local Client when invoking it in Debug mode from within Siebel Tools!

I was installing an instance of Siebel 7.8.2 for the concerned. My operating system in use is Windows XP.

My Sample client was opening successfully. This meant my Internet Explorer settings are fine, and the executables to execute one after the other are installed fine.

I could launch my local client from within Tools using the same CFG file and the login parameters indicated that my configuration of the CFG file was fine, and I was using the correct login credentials. This also concluded that it was not an issue of license keys. I was left in the blue unable to think of as to what the possible reason could be.

I tried increasing the Logging level to maximum, trying to find out what is really hampering the launch of local client. I noticed that there were no errors being indicated in the log files being created. Just that the log files would be created successfully for some time, and then, the entire process would halt. The log files stopped being updated after a certain point, without indicating any error.

On comparing the log files of client launch in debug mode and without debug mode, the only difference was that the log file size in Debug mode was much larger, the log files were being updated properly right till the end and that the debug mode Local client was working fine.

Now, the million dollar question: then how was the problem resolved?

On top of the base install of 7.8.2, I installed the patch 7.8.2.8.
When I tried launching the Local client now, it worked beautifully without hanging.

I am still hunting for the possible difference that the patch installation made, which enabled the successful launch of my Local Client. Any pointers from anybody?

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Siebel – Unable to check out objects

Prachi Sharma — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:34:29 +0000

I will discuss the following most prominent ways to enable or disable object level check-outs in Siebel here:
1) EnableObjectCOCI parameter
2) Allow Object Locking

I will explain these terms here.

Siebel brings about lot of new features in every new release. One of the very useful improvements in Siebel 7.8 was “object level check-out” in Siebel Tools. For those who started working directly on Siebel 7.8 and above, uptill Siebel 7.7.x, Siebel had the concept of Projects. A project in Siebel was a logical grouping of various objects – Workflows, Business Services, BCs, Applets, etc. We had custom projects for EAI, Configuration, Pricing, B2B, etc. And, we could only check out or check in projects! This was really time consuming.

I remember waiting for days in some cases, for someone to check in the project, because I wanted to work on some other object that she was not working on, but was in the same Siebel project. With object level locking, an individual can work on individual objects (an Applet, BC, or Business Service, etc.), and some other member can simulaneously check-out some other object whether or not in the same project. This greatly increases productivity, speed, and quality.

However, I had a lot of friends coming upto me, that even though they had Siebel 7.8 or above installed, at times their object level check-out was not enabled for some objects. Either it was not enabled at all, or for some particular objects.

There are two parameters in Siebel which control the Object level check out in Siebel

1) EnableObjectCOCI parameter
This parameter is present in the ‘[Siebel]‘ section (generally present on top) of the tools.cfg file. Your tools.cfg file would be located in the folder, “/Tools/BIN/ENU”.
This parameter must be set to TRUE to enable the object level check out.

1) Allow Object Locking
This is a new column in Siebel Tools against Projects in Siebel Tools. For most projects, this flag is ticked TRUE by default. But, I have noticed that for Upgrade related projects, it is set to FALSE. In case you created custom project in Siebel Tools, this flag must be set to TRUE.

Though this has helped increase speed, it has still not solved the problem. I still have to wait for long period sometimes for my friends to check-in the commonly used objects like ‘Quote Item’ BC and the like. I am wondering about one thing now. What is the real use of having projects now? If I can check out objects, why do we still have projects? I can’t think of any place where we cannot do with objects, and projects are still required. After all, projects are only a logical grouping of some objects. Right?

Though checking out objects is trivial at times, and taken for granted, I have also had a few of my friends discussing about checking out Workflows in Siebel. I have also heard people claim that is one thing still not possible without checking out the entire project. I will try to cover this problem in future posts.

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