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This post is the contribution by Sachin Mittal. He has shared a document which beautifully explains on how to create a Symbolic URL in Siebel to display external webpage. Thanks Sachin.

Click Here to download this word document. (more…)

This tip will enable you to login into Siebel thin client automatically. You could save it as a shortcut or save the link as your browser favorite.

To do this all you have to do this to append execute command, username and password to the URL as shown below.
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During many circumstances especially while using web services, we traverse through the property sets to check for different things and take appropriate action. One of those checks could be to check the expected property exists. PropertyExists method in Siebel eScript ensures that the specified property exists in a property set. This is a very useful method. The check is similar to using an if statement after ExecuteQuery() to make sure that it returns at least one record. This PropertyExists method is be used with if statements. This post can also fall under one of the best practices while writing eScript.
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While I was working on eScript I came across the method GetMVGBusComp which is one of Best Practices in eScripting and I thought of posting it here. Details about this method below.

Tip 11:Use GetMVGBusComp Method to get the MVG records

As the method name suggests it gets the Business Component of the record that MVG is based on. This is a very helpful Method that would save a several lines of unnecessary code.
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In this post I will explain what a property set is, how it looks and how to build a property set using eScript.

Property set is a set of data containing Type, Property and Value. It is stored in a form of XML. For example, when you write a business service a script under Service_PreInvokeMethod and Inputs to this is a property set and it could something like this. (more…)

I came across this job website indeed.com which shows job trends based on number of jobs posted in different websites. It grabs job listing from various websites and lists it at this one single website. Based on a keyword search it searches the number of listings each month and shows the trend. (more…)

This post is contributed by Lakshmi. She is a regular visitor of SiebelGuide.com blogs. On behalf of all our visitors I thank Lakshmi for her participation and sharing her knowledge.

Assume there 2 IC fields (Field1, Field 2) for an IC.

Field 2 has to be update only after Field1 is updated.

Then FieldDependency User Property should use on IC Field as – (more…)

If you look into Site Map->Administration-Application->System Preferences there is a parameter defined “Universal Time Coordinated”. This parameter can either be TRUE or FALSE. By default this value is set to TRUE during Siebel Installation. The decision to set this parameter to either TRUE or FALSE is decided depending on whether your Siebel deployment is Global or Local.

Let me try to explain this by setting this parameter “Universal Time Coordinated” to different values. (more…)