Creating a Siebel Toolbar option

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We all are familiar with Siebel Toolbar available in client and for those who are not very familiar here is a screenshot of toolbar I am talking about.

If you see this screenshot you will find that icon beside Site Map Icon is not a vanilla icon. In this post we are going to add another Icon beside Report Icon which will allow us to see information of the current record or in other words clicking on this should display About Record Applet. So, lets start.

1. Download the icon from web that you would like to use.  I am using:
   
2. Copy this file in your “PUBLIC\ENU\IMAGES” of your Siebel Tools and Siebel Client folder.
3. Add Command, Bitmap Category and Toolbar objects in your Object Explorer in Siebel Tools
4. Query for “HTML Command Icons” in Bitmap Category object and Lock Object
5. Create a New Record in Bitmap Child Object and enter following details and Compile the object
   Name: About Record
   Alt Text – String Override: About Record
   File Name: icon_about.gif (Replace this with the name of the file you copied in IMAGES folder)
   MIME Type: img/gif
   
6. Go to Command Object, create a New Record and enter following detailsName: About Record ToolbarDisplay Name: About Record
   HTML Bitmap: About Record
   HTML Popup Dimensions: 450 X 160
   Method: About Record
   Method Argument: About Record Applet
   Show Pop-up: True
   Target: Browser Applet
7. Go to Toolbar Object and query for “Quick Print” toolbar and Lock the object.
   
8. Create a New Record Toolbar Item Object and enter following details
   Name: About Record
   Command: About Record Toolbar
   Display Name: About Record
   HTML Type: Link
   Position: 2
   

Compile all the objects and open your application if you had completed all the steps you should see your new icon in between Quick Print and Reports icon as shown below

Clicking on this icon will open About Record Applet displaying information about the current record. There are lot of things that you can do using this technique like invoking a business service with a particular method or invoke a workflow process. Use your imagination and try new things using this.