22
Jul
2009
Siebel – Automating Merge Records by script – II
I call this Part II, as I have already introduced the Merge Records Siebel functionality, and discussed its usage in his post. One of the interesting discussions we had was how such a data could possibly be inserted into the Siebel system, since Siebel has so many mechanisms to prevent Data Corruption. We had also zeroed in on EIM and EAI as the basic culprits which could possibly insert inconsistent data into the Siebel Database.
17
Jul
2009
Siebel – FINS Teller UI Navigation
Siebel is POWERFUL! Now, need I even say that? And, in all its beauty and glory is the vanilla functionality. I keep coming across something new and novel everyday, and wondering, what percentage of 1% of Siebel do I now understand?!!
Here is another such Business Service that I came across the other day, “FINS Teller UI Navigation”. It has the following methods (my uncalled personal analysis is mentioned herewith):
31
May
2009
Siebel – FINS Industry XML Query Service
“Extracting values from a tag deep down in the Hierarchy.” How many times have you come across this problem, and how many times have you wished that Siebel has an OOB method to help you extract these values?
Well, here it is. The “FINS Industry XML Query Service” in Siebel does just that. I am covering this here because of lack of documentation on the same by Oracle, and the immense use that this can be put to. This BS can save you a lot of headache of writing custom scripts to parse the entire XML Hierarchy in Siebel eScript, which can be a real pain in the neck.
This blog post will target the detailed usage of the BS, “FINS Industry XML Query Service” in Siebel CRM. This BS can be used directly in a Siebel Workflow, since this is vanilla. No scripting is needed which is as per the recommendations of Siebel Best Practices.
10
May
2009
Siebel – Reading data directly from Siebel SRF
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
