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Runtime Events and Business Service – Case Study

Monday, March 24th, 2008

As I have stated in some of my earlier posts how the combination of Business Service and Runtime events has bailed us out of trouble number of times. I believe we can resolve almost all issues using runtime events and client side business service.
I will be sharing with you different situations in which we used [...]

Siebel Configuration requirement.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

This is an interesting requirement which I found while browsing on the forum. It requires fair bit of knowledge about user property, runtime events and  siebel configuration to find a solution. What could be better than sharing it with all you guys and asking for your input to find a good solution.
Requirement:

Create a copy of an existing view [...]

SetNamedSearch – a Sticky Search Specfication

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

We must have used SetSearchSpec and SetSearchExpr many times in our code. But few days back through Amol I came to know about a new method by which we can setup a Sticky Search Spec on Siebel Objects.
By sticky search spec I mean that it cannot be changed from UI or using ClearToQuery in script. That [...]

Debugging Workflow – A case study

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

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 [...]

Tracking Siebel courtesy Runtime Events.

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Requirement:
Capture details of Siebel application like

Application Login Time
User details like Login name, First Name, Last Name
View Navigation of particular views
Application Exit Time
Record creation and updation of opportunities

Solution:

eMail Response – Making Siebel better.

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Siebel is huge. We can multiply that statement by 10 and still that won’t be enough. eMail Response is one of those lesser known functionality but really intresting and useful. As the name suggests eMail Response has got to do something with email and responding to it.
Just to give you an overview what actually it [...]

EAI Siebel Adapter and Configuration - A case study.

Monday, November 5th, 2007

With EAI first word that comes to mind is integration. But domain of EAI is not limited to just integration with external application. It can help us in configuration also when used properly. The most common used EAI business Service is EAI Siebel Adapter which is used at lot of places. Recently it helped me [...]

Parent Read Only Field – A case Study.

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Requirement:
We were trying to trying change the status of Quote and Quote Item through Asynchronous workflow. We queried for quote made it active and then changed the status to ‘Priced’ and then we had to change the status of Quote Item to ‘Priced’ and then again make the quote inactive.
Problem:
After changing the Quote status to [...]

Siebel Product Configurator SetUIOption API – A case Study.

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

Requirement:
Based on value of some fields in Quote Item Product Configurator should display dynamic UI. To make it simpler I will put it this way.
If the value of the field Contract Type is ‘A’ then there should be three tabs in UI of Product Configurator and if the value of the field ‘Contract Type’ is [...]

Siebel 7.8 Signals - A Case Study!

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

I am back with what I promised.
A case study how we used signals to improve the perfomance by 83%. I will try to tell you facts that I found while working on them and not available in bookshelf and supportweb. If you want to know about singals please read my post Siebel CRM 7.8 - [...]