Notes On Siebel

Browser Script “on the fly”

Top tip today from Neel over at Siebel Unleashed: using the IE address bar to enter browser script.

I’ve never thought of this, and the key point is worth repeating: script entered into the address bar after a javascript tag is executed by the browser, in exactly the same way as browser script. This means that if you edit the address to be:

javascript:alert(theApplication().GetProfileAttr("Me.First Name"));

…then the browser will popup a message box with the value of the First Name attribute - exactly as you’d expect if this statement was in browser script. Much faster than navigating to Administration - Personalization > Test, plus it retains current context.

Nice quick-and-dirty hack to check (or set) the value of browser objects. Good work, Neel!

2 comments May 20th, 2008

Shell command for Browser Script

A question on the Oracle discussion forum last week prompted me to dig out a MetaLink article that I’ve never noted here. The question was “How to call a local executable from the browser”: the answer is to use browser script to instantiate a Windows Scripting Host ‘Shell’ ActiveX object, like so:

var objWSH = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
objWSH.Run("notepad.exe");

More detail on using the ActiveXObject is available in the post on Client-side DLLS.

Add comment May 5th, 2008