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I found these two beautiful demos about Siebel Task UI presented by Scott Nash, Vice President of Product Management in Siebel.

The first video gives little overview of Task UI and the second one shows the actual demo. Enjoy. (more…)

I was implementing a new Siebel 8 application for my client and in spite of everything working normal I realized that some views of product configurator were missing. Then I started to investigate as to why these views were not visible even for SADMIN. I checked few different things and later we realized that the product configurator functionality is an add-on license and which my client hasn’t bought. (more…)

There are often times when we need to extend the Siebel data model. One of them is to add an extension column to the existing Siebel tables. In this blog I have listed a simplified version of steps required to add an extension column. But before you create an extension column make sure that the existing columns provided by Siebel don’t meet your requirements. You should create extension columns only if necessary. There is also a way you can avoid creating this extension column by using the columns under 1:1 extension tables. For example (more…)

Indexes are created on the table to improve performance. The purpose of adding index is to help the database locate records much quickly and efficiently. The steps needed in adding an index to a Siebel table are pretty straight forward but this has to be first done on the local client db using Siebel Tools and should never be done straight on the database.

For the purpose of this blog, I will take an example of adding an index to an extension column s_org_ext.X_OLD_ACC_NUM. (more…)