4
Sep
2009
Siebel – Installer hangs midway
In my website statistics, I see somebody trying to find a solution to the above problem. The Siebel Installer starts, when you start an installation. However, it doesn’t complete and it hangs somewhere in the midway. I write this just when I was having the exact same problem today (I hope that explains the smiley which opens this post!).
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.
15
Jul
2009
Siebel – Refresh Applet retaining existing context
RefreshRecord() does not work in all cases, does it?
This is a very common requirement I have seen in almost all Siebel EAI implementations. We have data flowing IN and OUT of the Siebel CRM system. It is updated in the Database alright, but, how do we update the user on the UI. I am assuming a quick data interchange in Real-time using a VBC or a Web Service or something similar. Whenever we update the Database using a Workflow or a script here, the UI will not refresh automatically, and though the process would end successfully (I hope it does), the user would never come to know about the successful updation until he manually does a Query + Go on the Applet, or uses the famed Alt+Enter Hotkey.
9
Jul
2009
Siebel – EAI Siebel Adapter – Looping Multiple Records
This is a follow-up post on the post, Siebel – Looping Multiple Records – III. We are looking at possibly more conventional methods to loop through multiple records in Siebel, than the SIA BC Utility Service.
We will make use of EAI Siebel Adapter’s QueryPage method to achieve the same. Knowledge of Siebel Workflow processes is essential to understanding this post.
The QueryPage method allows us to input an additional parameter, NumOutputObjects, to define the number of records that we want to output. Why not set this value to ‘1′?
Following is an outline of the Dummy Workflow I used to achieve this.
8
Jun
2009
Siebel – EAI Siebel Adapter Search Spec
Hi,
I can bet that for anybody who has worked on Siebel EAI, ‘EAI Siebel Adapter’ is not an Alien term. This post is about EAI Siebel Adapter’s Query method.
How to restrict the number of Child records returned in Siebel adapter’s Query.
Scenario – Order and related Order Line Items
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.
28
May
2009
BI – Actuate Reports in PDF format in Siebel
Hi all,
Siebel is well integrated with Actuate Reports, used for reporting and Business Intelligence (BI) perspectives.
Today’s post has been contributed by Tapan Chitkara, a regular visitor to GeeksBlogging@dotCOM. Tapan has deep expertise in Siebel Actuate Reports.
By default, when a report is generated and viewed in the Siebel web client, or selected from Reports Server > My Reports view, the report will be presented in Dynamic HTML (DHTML) format in the web browser. When the user clicks on the Save button , a window will popup prompting to download the report to PDF or Excel. If you select PDF and try to save, the file will be saved as the name of the physical report file on the Server as shown in the image below (Please click on the image to enlarge):
23
Apr
2009
Siebel – Showing red asterisk on a conditionally required field
In Siebel vanilla Application, we see a red asterisk ( * ) in case the field is Required. However, this asterisk is not shown in case the field is made required conditionally through customization.
We had a similar requirement, to show the red asterisk against a field in the form applet, which was required conditionally. I have already discussed how to make the field read only conditionally in my previous post.
21
Apr
2009
Siebel – License keys don’t work / are invalid
So, here I am again. After the fabulous solution to enter license key in Siebel by Prachi, I guess I would also just put an icing on the cake! 
Okay, Prachi’s post, is valid in case you HAVE the license keys available. What do you do in case you DON’T HAVE the license keys in the first place!!
This is what this post is all about, entering Siebel without a valid license key.
20
Apr
2009
Siebel – Adding License Keys to Sample
I am glad to be associated with Geeks Blogging @ dotCOM. This is my first post here.
This is a very generic problem that we all come across. Adding License Keys in Siebel Sample Database. This is at times a little difficult and workarounds have to be used.
There are a number of ways that you can enter License Keys in Siebel:
1) When you are installing Siebel, and try to log in for the first time, it asks for valid License Keys. You can enter multiple license keys at this step.
2) Log into Siebel Web Application. Navigate to Sitemap -> Administration – Application -> License Keys.
3) Log into Siebel Tools. Navigate to Help -> Technical Support -> License Keys
