Siebel Unleashed

Write the below given code in browser script for an applet . This below given code will display Abort, Retry and Ignore prompt on click of a button.

In this example I had created a button on an applet and the name of the method it invokes upon click is EventMethodAddress. This code has been provided by Tejeshwar Singh a friend of mine

if (name == "EventMethodAddress")
   {
     var arr = new Object;
     arr.prompt = "Are you sure?"; 
     arr.buttons = 2; 
     arr.title = "Testing Dialog";
     var intRet;
     intRet = theApplication().ShowModalDialog("temp.htm", arr, "dialogHeight:150px; dialogLeft:200px; dialogWidth:500px; status:no;help:no;")
      if(intRet ==  3)
          alert("You clicked Abort");
      if(intRet ==  4)                 
           alert("You clicked Retry");
       if(intRet ==  5)                 
           alert("You clicked Ignore");
  
    return("CancelOperation");
 }

Let’s go through the code now

we create a new object with var arr = new Object statement. This object will be used to pass input parameters to display information in prompt.

arr.prompt argument is used to pass the text to be displayed in the prompt.

arr.buttons argument will decide what buttons are to be displayed on prompt. Possible values are
1 = OK - CANCEL
2 = ABORT – RETRY - IGNORE
3 = YES – NO – CANCEL
4 = YES – NO
If you don’t pass this argument then by default a prompt with only OK button is displayed. In our example code we are passing 2 so that means abort, retry and cancel prompt is going to be displayed.

arr.title argument will be the title of the prompt.

ShowModalDialog function takes 3 input arguments

• Name of the HTML file which contains required HTML and Javascript code to display prompt as in our case it is temp.htm.
• Object containing input arguments
• CSS which determines the height and width of code. You can change this depending on the text you want to display

Bad news is that this thing doesn’t work in Siebel 7.8, it is a product defect  :( but good news is that a workaround is available to make it work. In next part we will discuss the workaround