12
Aug
2009
Siebel – Symbolic Strings
Consider this a brief introductory tutorial on Symbolic Strings in Siebel. Symbolic Strings are from amongst the most commonly used entities in Siebel, especially in Siebel Multi lingual deployments.
They can greatly reduce the job of initializing, deploying, tracking, modifying all the plethora of error/warning messages that you may generally come across in a typical Siebel CRM application.
11
Aug
2009
Siebel – Vanilla Functionality
What is Siebel Vanilla functionality?
Somebody recently asked me this question. Though trivial, it could be quite foxing for somebody new to the Siebel Development community. It is a part of the normal Siebel jargon.
7
Aug
2009
Siebel Configuration – A day in life
Consider this article as a simple overview of Siebel Configuration. We will cover how a typical day in the life of a Siebel Configurator is most likely to be like.
Siebel is a Tool in itself. It is a Customer Relationship Management system, which Oracle has kept as close to the global standards as it could, and it has done a good job at that, I must say. In most cases, it is similar to any customized CRM software you may come across, just that most of the views, and Data Organization that you would yearn for, would be available Out of the Box when you install Siebel CRM.
6
Aug
2009
Siebel EIM – USING SYNONYMS
Performance is always a major issue in most of the Siebel Intallations. In a project where large scale EIM Processing is needed, rest assured, Performance would be the from amongst the most discussed topics, at least from the Acceptance Testing phase, if not before!
EIM Data loads can turn out to be for millions of records, and many tens of GBs of Data being imported is a common sight (talking in terms of the Oracle Database Data File footprint). The customer has to be around that size, if he is actually going in for a Siebel CRM implementation I guess!
5
Aug
2009
Siebel – Automatic User Logout
Logging out a user automatically, when the user does not explicitly logoff.
This one came up as a request from NP on GeeksBlogging@dotCOM. I believe this would possibly be a very frequent issue and a common problem in almost all the Siebel Installations. The users generally come from a Sales background. They hardly care how they actually close the Siebel Application. In most cases, they just press the (X) button on top of the Browser window, rather than explicitly selecting File -> Logout.
4
Aug
2009
Siebel EIM Career – A day in Life
Consider this article as a simple overview of Siebel EIM. We will cover how a typical day in the life of a Siebel EIM Developer is like.
Usage of Siebel EIM is guaranteed as soon as a Siebel project is to be implemented, in most cases. The only exceptions that I can think of are the Siebel Upgrade projects in some cases, or in case the client never had any information organizing of Contacts and Leads for this line of business before (Rare, and highly unlikely!!).
28
Jul
2009
Siebel – Autosave Opportunity data – Sample Code
This is a follow up post on my previous post, Siebel – Autosave Opportunity data – The concept where I introduced the concept and analysis of the following problem statement:
“System should have capability to automatically save opportunity (RFPs) data in Draft state after a certain interval.”
Following is the sample code for solving the above problem statement.
27
Jul
2009
Siebel – Autosave Opportunity data – The concept
Requirement:
System should have capability to automatically save opportunity(RFPs) data in Draft state after a certain interval.
Presumption:
1) The Business Component to be used for the UI applet should not have any required fields at the Table or BC level itself or All the required fields should be pre-defaulted with some unique values.
24
Jul
2009
Siebel – Merge Records – Checklist
I call this Part III, and concluding part of a series of my posts on the Merge Records functionality in Siebel CRM. You may want to take a look at the previous 2 parts below:
Siebel – Merge Records functionality
Siebel – Automating Merging Records by script – II
Though this looks like a very interesting and useful utility from the face of it, it can be dangerous too.
24
Jul
2009
Siebel – Fetch Active view properties – III
I will discuss a practical example, and the corresponding Inputs as a usage example for the “FINS Data Transfer Utilities”. If you have not already done so, I would suggest going through the previous posts for a better understanding:
Siebel – Fetch Active view properties
Siebel – Fetch Active view properties – II
23
Jul
2009
Siebel – Fetch Active view properties – II
We discussed about fetching the values from the active view in my post yesterday.
However, I also felt that it was a very crude way of doing it. We can only get the information we need, by writing a small script for it. Moreover, the information was very limited.
22
Jul
2009
Siebel – Fetch Active view properties
Hi,
Working on a typical requirement recently, I came across a need to fetch the properties from the user’s active view. This was an attempt to recognize the user, and the details about the Siebel view/screen he was in.
On research we can see that there are a number of Application level methods which we have at our disposal.
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.
