We faced this problem quite often in Siebel 7.7. I am yet to face this error in Siebel 7.8 but I think there are lot of people that are still using Siebel 7.7 or even Siebel 7.5 so they might be facing this kind of problem.
Problem:
When clicking on Pick Applet in Siebel 7.7 application the [...]

Background
Few days back we added new fields that we had to use in Proposal Generation. After doing the required configuration when we used those fields in mapping they started showing up values as NA. When we accessed those fields from script they showed proper values and when we looked at backend database the values were [...]

Quite a few readers have asked me about real time scenarios of various posts that I have written. I try to explain with examples so that it is easy to understand but I think putting it in real working scenario will make more sense and more understanding. So, today I am going to narrate a [...]

I think we all know what search specification means in Siebel. But just for introduction purposes I would like to give an overview.
Search Specification is criteria that we can apply on an Siebel object to restrict the amount of data that reaches the user.
You can apply search specification on objects like BC, Applet, Picklists etc.
Search [...]

Yesterday somebody posted a question about Synchronizing IO on the Siebel Forum. I did answer him there but I was not sure how many of you follow the forum so thought I would share my learning about Synchronization of IO with a wider audience
It was my first EAI Assignment and we were working [...]

Workflow is one of the most commonly used functionality in Siebel. They provide us the way to automate simple and complex business process without much trouble.
Workflows can be invoke in several ways in Siebel.

Runtime Events
Scripting
User Property
Workflow Policy

In this post I will be giving example of how to invoke workflow process in different ways.

While working on CR (Change Request) I had to use a field in the script.
The Script was something like
var AgreeBO = TheApplication().GetBusObject(“Service Agreement”);
var AgreeBC = AgreeBO.GetBusComp(“Service Agreement”);
var OrderType = “”;
  with(AgreeBC)
      {
         ActivateField(“Oppty Order Type”)
         ClearToQuery();
         SetViewMode(3);
         SetSearchSpec(“Id”,AgreeId);
         ExecuteQuery();
         if(FirstRecord())
         {
            OrderType = GetFieldValue(“Oppty Order Type”);
       }
AgreeBO = null;
AgreeBC = null;
There is nothing unusual in [...]

While working on COMCreateObject API provided by Siebel I noticed that with help of it we can communicate with Win 32 API provided by Windows which we usually do in VB.
So, when somebody asked me is it possible to open an EXE file from Siebel?
I thought it should be and started doing some work on [...]

This is a problem that I recently faced while applying a column to a local database.
Problem:
While applying column to local database Siebel Tools hangs and your column extension is not successful.
Solution:

In last post I gave an overview of eMail Response functionality in Siebel. You can read the following post if you already haven’t gone through it.
 
For those you have gone through it, in this post I am going to outline the procedure of setting up of eMail Response for your application.  You need to follow the [...]