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Loading ...This is nice trick that I came to know recently from Nidhi Puri a friend of mine working in siebel from past 2 years. Till now there were 2 ways known to me to enable a button on an applet in Siebel.
- Scripting at PreCanInvoke event of Applet
- Named Method n User property
But there is another way of enabling the button on applet apart from these two.
Just prefix EventMethod in front of the method name you have given and it will automatically enable the button example
If you create a button and give method name as CopyScript then change it to EventMethodCopyScript it will automatically enable the button. But you need to change the method name at BC level too. So at BC Level the scripting will change to
if(MethodName == “EventMethodCopyScript”)
Nice clean way to enable the button.
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u mean to say that if we give method name as “Hai” in applet control level then we need to use it as “EventMethodHai” in scripting..is that correct? please be clear…
yes that is correct
but i didn’t work for me….My method name was “Remove” and in BC i have given it as
if(MethodName == “EventMethodRemove”)..the button is not activated…did it work for u?
You have to change the name at 2 places
Applet : MethodName
BC Scripting
if your method was Remove then change Applet Method Name as EventMethodRemove
It will activate the button if you have script associated with it then you will need to change the method name in scripting.
Hope that clears how to do it
Thankyou neel it is working fine now…Can u please tell me about the “Named Method n” user property to enable or disable a button..i havenot use that till now..Thanks in advance
[...] a button on applet with method name as “MyMethod” *You can also use technique described in EventMethod Post of renaming method name to EventMethodMyMethod which will help you to eliminate scripting at Applet [...]
[...] is the latest and simplest of all methods to enable the button. You can read in detail in the following post about Event [...]
Neel,
I Just tried, a quick way to make a New Button visible.
I AM HAVING THIS ERROR WHILE I AM LOGGING TO SIEBEL TOOLS USING LOCAL DATABASE
SBL-SEC-10018: You have entered an invalid set of logon parameters. Please type in your logon
parameters again.(SBL-DAT-00446)
Invalid user ID or password
Try login through dbisqlc.exe so that you are sure that there is no problem with dbf.
I will suggest you to put the problem in Siebel forum as others might also be able to help you out the link to the forum is
http://forum.siebelunleashed.com
Is this property work on specific version of Siebel Tools or with specific class. I tried but it doesnt work for me.
I have tried it in 7.7 and 7.8
on which version are you working..
HI, we r woking on Siebel 8.0.1
We have chnaged the font for the whole application from 9 to 11.Now the problem is that the font of View Tabs is also increased and they are not properly visible in UI.Kindly help me in finding out the way?
Hey man this EventMethod is not working for me. I tried it just as R&D for enabling a button but it didn’t work.
There is no script for that button.
[...] Create a button control on this Applet and set the Method Invoked to EventMethodCreateOpty. Note: I used this method name so that I don’t have script in PreCanInvoke method enable the button. To get more details about this method read the following post. [...]
i need to enable button on one view and need to disable to other views but applet is same in all the views..any idea, how can we do this through configuration?
there is a Applet User Property called CanInvokeMethod. Say you want to enable button Foo, which is invoking FooMethod method. Add a Applet User Property entry like this:
Name: CanInvokeMethod : FooMethod
Value: TRUE
You may declare you want this method to be enabled depending on any expression. For example, only when record are showed:
Value: [Id] IS NOT NULL
Can’t think of a cleaner way to do this…
VR: you could use the solution i provided earlier
Add an Applet User Property like this:
Name: CanInvokeMethod YourMethod
Value: TheApplication().ActiveViewName() = YourEnabledButtonView
I’m not sure ActiveViewName works there. If not use this on PreCanInvokeMethod of your applet:
function WebApplet_PreCanInvokeMethod (MethodName, &CanInvoke)
{
var iReturn = ContinueOperation;
if(MethodName==”YourMethod”){
try{
iReturn = CancelOperation;
if(TheApplication().ActiveViewName() == “YourEnabledButtonView”) CanInvoke = “TRUE”;
else CanInvoke = “FALSE”;
}catch(e){}
finally{}
}
return (iReturn);
}
tell me if any of it worked.
>> Name: CanInvokeMethod YourMethod
>> Value: TheApplication().ActiveViewName() = YourEnabledButtonView
You should use GetProfileAttr (‘ActiveViewName’) instead.
Value: GetProfileAttr (‘ActiveViewName’) = YourEnabledButtonView
EventMethod is working fine in thin client..
but for protal is not working..
what to done for portal applications?
Hi Neel, I just found that Named Method user property does not executes on CSSBusComp based BCs.
I was configuring a button on a custom BC based on CSSBusComp but button was not becoming active .. then i just changed class to CSSBCBase .. button became active and running….
Even user Event Method trick doesnt work on applet based on CSSBusComp class BCs.
I think it is the simplest Class of Siebel BCs. can be quite usefull for thin BCs.
Hope it helps somebody someday!
hi Neel,
did you ever try ‘EventMethod Enabled’ for conditionaly enabling / disabling button as its not working for me….
Thanks!
Hi Neel,
Could you please tell me how to change button caption dynamically.
Thanks in Advance.
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What I observed is EventMethod only prevents that Specialized method error because I was able to configure enable/disable button with CanInvoke Method Applet UP itself and in Value column use Calc Field if wants to enable/disable on some condition. Remember this UP works with 1 or 2 Applet Classes only. But problem is when you will click on the button then it will throw specialized error so we need to use EventMethod but not for enablig/disabling.
EventMethod works with the CSSBCBase class and it's derived classes it was not working for CSSBusComp Please check at your end as well. Please let me know if I am wrong
When we already have a Scripting option, then how this “EventMethod” is useful.
It would be useful when we just give EventMethodxyz as method name in applet control level and with out scripting, then it would really help the developers
Hi,
I want a script to disable button in the upper applet when there are no records in the bottom applet.please can anyone help out for this
It is not recommended to write this kind of script in Applet PreCanInvoke method.
The only way to do this is to query on your child BC and see if it return any record for example
GetBO
GetBC(“Child BC”)
execute query
if(!firstrecord)
CanInvoke = 'False';
else
CanInvoke = 'True'
but this means that you are querying child BC lot of time which can result in performance issues.
Try to get this requirement changed to display error message when you user clicks a button and no child records are present.