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Limiting Text Field Length – User Property

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Lot of time we have requirement which involves restricting user input to certain length. Most common way to do that is to specify the Text Length property of the field. I used to do that until recently when I came to know that even after specifying field length user was able to enter more than [...]

Required - handy user property.

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

Making a field required is very common requirement and making a field required on conditional basis is also not unusual.
Making field required is very simple by just checking the Required Property of the field. But making field required on conditional basis is a bit tricky. There are couple of alternatives to that.

On Field Update Set n – Interview Question.

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

In this post I am going to provide answer to a popular question asked in siebel interviews. It is realted to configuation and here is how it goes.
How to update a field based on change in another field?
The answer to this question is.

Siebel Deep Copy-Deep Delete explored.

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Often we have requirement where we would like more than one child to be copied when the parent record is copied and similarly when we delete the parent records its child records are also deleted. There are couple of user properties that have been provided to us which can help us to accomplish that without [...]

Making Record and Fields Read Only

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

A pretty common requirement is to make a specific field or a record read only. In this post I will describe various ways to accomplish that in siebel
Making the Field Read only on UI

Set the Read only property on applet object to true for that field. 

Making the Field Read only on Business Component

Set the Read [...]

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 [...]