Today Anisur Khan is sharing his problem that he faced after the application was upgraded from Siebel 7.5 to Siebel 8.1 and also how he achieved the solution using DefaultAppletFocus user property. Problem: In Siebel 7.5 the default focus in Order Detail View was on the Order header applet, however in Siebel 8.1 the default focus [...]

Kavitha Devarajan a reader of Siebel Unleashed shared a really useful tip with us. She has provided information about a user property called DefaultFocus. Requirement: Whenever I query for a record focus should be on the third column of the Contact List Applet (e.g. Last Name)

While working on Performance issues, I came across a rarely used user property known as ‘Use Literals For Like’. Purpose: If you have gone through logs sometime then you might have noticed that if you query with a text in a field then the query generated at backend has lot of like clauses which queries [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]