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Filed under How To, Tips&Tricks, All, Configuration

Siebel Workflows can be tested using Simulators. Using simulators we set the input process properties to some valid values and execute the simulator. Siebel provides two types of Simulator to test Workflows: Process Simulators and Business Service Simulators. (more…)

Comments (18) Posted by Sridhar on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Filed under How To, Tips&Tricks, All, Configuration

Predefined Query, also called as PDQs in Siebel are very handy for end users. The end users often execute the same query multiple times or also the requirement could be such that as soon as the person navigates a particular view a default set of records should be displayed. Instead of redoing the query again and again we setup PDQs for this. (more…)

Comments (11) Posted by Sridhar on Monday, July 28th, 2008

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Before we start to debug any Business Service or simulate any Workflow we need to provide Siebel Tools with some runtime parameters otherwise Tools will throw errors.

Below are the setup details for Siebel Tools. (more…)

Comments (8) Posted by Sridhar on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Filed under WebServices, How To, Tips&Tricks, All

Today I was working in developing Web Services in Siebel and I realized that I need to send an XML message embedded in a SOAP envelope. When I was testing it I realized that Siebel did not like the special characters inside the xml elements because the parser had special meaning to it and would either ignore or error it. (more…)

Comments (1) Posted by Sridhar on Friday, July 18th, 2008

Filed under Demos, All, Configuration

I came across this blog posted by NanPats. I went through the power point presentation that he has attached and I was impressed. You can download the presentation from his blog. It had everything that a developer needs to get started in developing Siebel Task UI. NanPats, Thanks a lot for sharing with us. (more…)

Comments (0) Posted by Sridhar on Sunday, July 13th, 2008

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With Siebel versions 7.8 and above, project checkouts have been disabled by default. Instead we have object checkouts which are more flexible and allow multiple developers to work on the same project. So if you go into Siebel Tools and navigate to Tools-> Check Out and select any project, the Checkout button will be disabled. (more…)

Comments (6) Posted by Sridhar on Friday, July 11th, 2008

Filed under Tips&Tricks, eScript, All

This post is a contribution from Deepak S Kumar a regular visitor of SiebelGuide.com Many thank to him for contributing and sharing his knowledge. I am posting this article as it is. You can also download this article in a word document using this link. I would also request other visitors to participate. (more…)

Comments (5) Posted by Sridhar on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008