Siebel Unleashed

In this post I will discuss various ways by which we can implement ADM in Siebel 7.7 and Siebel 7.8

There are 3 different ways to implement ADM

• Import/Export
• UI Session
• Batch Deployment

==> Import/Export is the simplest of them All. What you need to do is just

• Create an ADM Project
• Add entities that you want to move.
• Apply appropriate Filter
• Export them in File
• In the target environment Import that file

And you are done.

But it is easier said than done. So, here are some points that you need to keep in mind.

1. There should be a shared folder that should be accessible from both source and target environments.
2. Don’t forget to check the Export to File checkbox
3. If your servers are on Unix/Solaris environment then you need to provide path according to that e.g /opt/shared/ and if your Siebel server is on windows then you need to provide path like \\servername\sharedfoldername
4. Path provided in Source environment should be only till the shared folder for example if you want that your file should go to /opt/shared/admfolder then you should then path you give is /opt/shared/admfolder/
5. In the target environment you will provide complete the path including the filename that you want to import.

==> UI Session: This process is very simple to execute but a bit tricky to implement. In this process you

• Go to Application Deployment Manager > Deployment Projects
• Create a Project
• Add entities and apply appropriate Filter
• Enable the project
• Deploy the project

And you are done.

Things to keep in mind:

You need to Activate some workflows before it starts working. 

Go to Administration -Business Process > Workflow deployment. Query for UDA* and you should get list of 9 workflows Activate them All. Make sure they are activated on Target Environment also.

It should work well after that

==> Batch Deployment: This approach is least preferred and never explored into detail but just to give you the overview. You can run a ADM job from command line.

Pre-requisites are that you need to modify couple of workflows and there should a shared folder accessible to both source and target environments. If you want more details about this method the please go through bookshelf.

In next post we will discuss how to execute a ADM Deployment Session from UI