http://blog.notesonsiebel.com Technical advice, help and instruction with Siebel Systems Tue, 20 May 2008 06:27:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.notesonsiebel.com/2008/05/20/browser-script-on-the-fly/ 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, ... http://blog.notesonsiebel.com/2008/05/05/shell-command-for-browser-script/ I've mentioned previously that Siebel's handling of phone numbers can cause havoc for EAI. The post on International Phone Formats outlines how Siebel stores phone numbers as a continuous string including the country code (+610298767654), appending a new line and format string to store special formats (+61041234567890<CR><LF>0000 0000 0000). This ... http://blog.notesonsiebel.com/2008/04/29/phone-number-fields-in-integration-objects/ SKV commented on my Order of Events post from July pointing out a contradiction he spotted in TechNote 581. On page 20 of that document, point 4. states: Problem: If a buscomp has code on WriteRecord and the runtime event fires on WriteRecord, which occurs first? Solution: WriteRecord runtime event is ... http://blog.notesonsiebel.com/2008/03/30/order-of-events-revisited/ I had a problem the other day where I needed to share a value between two applets. On a form applet there's a browser script method that executes on the WriteRecord event, but it's designed to only fire if certain other events have already run. To control the 'state' (execute ... http://blog.notesonsiebel.com/2008/03/27/shared-browser-script-variables/ Okay, time for a rant. This is bugging me. I spend a lot of time with Workflow: EAI work kind of forces that on you. Any moderately complicated workflow process always ends up needing a stack of workflow process properties. The vanilla processes Siebel provide are good examples of this phenomenon. ... http://blog.notesonsiebel.com/2008/03/03/defining-workflow-process-properties/ Welcome to notesonsiebel.com! I've moved the new URL at the same time as moving the blog off wordpress.org and onto my own Wordpress installation. Apologies for any difficulty you've had while the changes have gone through, but hopefully the TNS and NameServer changes have now circulated around the internet and all ... http://blog.notesonsiebel.com/2008/02/17/new-domain-new-host/ Don't we all love MetaLink, Oracle's replacement for Siebel SupportWeb? Judging from everyone I've spoken to, the answer's a resounding 'No'! To be honest, a lot of the griping is down to the usual sour grapes that accompany any software release that exposes users to change. I can't help but be ... http://blog.notesonsiebel.com/2008/02/15/oracle-metalink-3/ For all Sydneysiders reading: the next Siebel User Group event will take place on the 21st February. We're back at the AGSM for a panel discussion on The Role That Siebel Plays In Your Enterprise, after which there'll be the usual opportunity to catch up with past and future colleagues. It's ... http://blog.notesonsiebel.com/2008/02/07/siebel-user-group-australia-event-21-february/ A quick titbit to get things rolling again after an extended silly season hiatus... Whenever you need to access lists of values data in your configuration, note that of the business components defined on the S_LST_OF_VAL table, Picklist Generic is cached while List Of Values is not. The impact of this ... http://blog.notesonsiebel.com/2008/01/14/improving-list-of-values-performance/