Impossible Siebel

InvokeMethod with Parameters

2012-04-18T22:00:00.009+10:00

Requirement Capture a response from client side, and send it to the server Option 1: Use a profile attribute Profile attributes are dirty for a number of reasons, this post by Mike M. Lin,...

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SiebUnit - Build Inventory

2012-02-10T21:08:00.004+11:00

This article is a continuation on SiebUnit - an xUnit implementation, and provides an inventory of the parts needed to construct a SiebUnit framework. Like the first article, this is aimed at the...

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SiebUnit - an xUnit implementation

2012-02-04T20:24:00.009+11:00

Introduction Over a year ago, I presented a concept of xUnits in Siebel and how they could be used. Because it was only a concept, it was missing implementation details, so there was some doubts to...

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Find Results Highlight defect

2011-11-21T22:57:00.003+11:00

1. Log into the Application through thin client 2. Click the Binoculars 3. Choose a search category 4. Enter a search criteria 5. Click Search The search results should show the selected record with...

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Cornelius' Applet Set Focus Challenge

2011-11-16T20:24:00.003+11:00

This article continues on from the guest article on Siebel Essentials - Set Focus on an Applet by Cornelius. When I read the article by Cornelius, and saw the ~85 lines of code, I fainted (possibly...

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EAI Phone Format Challenge feat. BRP

2011-11-08T20:41:00.010+11:00

Over two years ago, I issued a challenge to the Siebel community, through the EAI Scriptless phone number challenge. The original challenge was started by a reader from Siebel Essentials's...

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Solution - Popup Applet "X" button

2011-11-02T21:03:00.002+11:00

This is the long awaited solution to the Popup Applet X button challenge, which was solved by Master configurator Michael Feng. [Background] Siebel provides us with two events on popup applets,...

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Funky Town: Inline Field Validation

2011-10-31T21:23:00.006+11:00

This post is part of the Funky Town series of articles, where we take ridiculous User Centric Design (UCD) requirements and put them into practice. In this article, I look at another outrageous...

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Funky Town: Sexy Salutation

2011-10-26T22:00:00.004+11:00

This post is part of the Funky Town series of articles, where we take ridiculous User Centric Design (UCD) requirements and put them into practice. [Background] On the Application Home page screen,...

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Funky Town: Custom UI Extension

2011-10-20T21:12:00.003+11:00

This post is part of the Funky Town series of articles, where we take ridiculous User Centric Design (UCD) requirements and put them into practice. [Background] I was commissioned to design a...

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Funky Town: Friendly Siebel Applets

2011-10-19T21:02:00.003+11:00

This post is part of the Funky Town series of articles, where we take ridiculous User Centric Design (UCD) requirements and put them into practice. [Scenario] The business wanted yet another button...

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Funky Town

2011-09-20T22:21:00.004+10:00

A lot of articles on Impossible Siebel are an exploration of what is possible than what is normally recommended, it is hoped that readers would take these ideas, concepts and techniques (added with...

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Siebel MTOM Attachments

2011-08-08T23:37:00.003+10:00

Audience This article highlights the importance of MTOM in the enterprise, provides a high level overview of the challenges that I faced bringing the MTOM standard into Siebel. However due to the...

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Browser Script Debugger

2011-06-28T22:06:00.011+10:00

One of the joys of working with Siebel is debugging Script, those late nights troubleshooting spaghetti code sure brings back memories. It is even more memorable when you encounter code that has...

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Searching through UTF-16 files

2011-06-09T23:21:00.002+10:00

In a typical day of a Siebel EAI developer, we are required to investigate problems with XML/XSLT files, and unless you know the system inside out, and outside in, you may encounter XML fragments...

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Server Confirm dialog (Scriptless)

2011-01-07T12:21:00.005+11:00

[Background] Every Siebel professional knows that its impossible to get input from the user using Server script. The rationale is that server script runs on the server, and theres no way that it...

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Quick GenBScript By fkirill

2010-11-18T20:59:00.006+11:00

Recently, I was contacted by Siebel Master Kirill Frolov, who shared with me his new Browser Script generation tool. What I found impressive about this tool, is that it can generate browser scripts...

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Solution - Mouseover Tooltips (Scriptless) Part 2

2010-11-09T10:56:00.002+11:00

This is the final article in our Impossible Tooltips challenge, if you have arrived here by accident, have a read of the precursor articles before going further. 1. Tooltips Challenge 2. Tooltips...

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Solution - Mouseover Tooltips (Scriptless) Part 1

2010-11-02T20:28:00.002+11:00

I've been receiving a lot of requests from Siebel professionals to provide the solution to the tooltips challenge, and though i've provided the solution privately to needing customers, i've realised...

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Ultra browser script generator 2

2010-10-06T16:30:00.004+11:00

A fellow colleague had a chance to test my new Ultra GenB script progress screen enhancement, and the feedback was: "Every developer should have this" If you dont know what the excitement is all...

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Reader Challenge - Popup Applet "X" button

2010-09-29T12:20:00.004+10:00

[Requirement] "How to show alert to user after closing a Pick Applet from the "X" button [top right corner]. I want to show the alert or confirm(yes/no) box just after closing the pickapplet. I...

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XSLT 1.0 upper-case() & lower-case()

2010-09-22T14:33:00.003+10:00

In the last article, we looked at using XSLT "includes", and along the way, encountered a requirement to convert a string to uppercase in XSLT 1.0. XSLT 2.0 users have the luxury of upper-case() &...

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XSLT 1.0 include

2010-09-15T21:32:00.002+10:00

A few years back, I ran a technical session for a client, on how to use XSLT to solve tricky Siebel problems and i came to realise that not every developer is exposed to XSLT. On some projects XSLT...

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Set Tab layout order defect 8.1.1.2

2010-08-18T07:32:00.003+10:00

Last year i looked at a Siebel feature that prevented tab orders from being adhered to on Popup Form applets. This was tested in 8.1.1.1, but under 8.1.1.2, this solution dosnt work anymore. The...

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Trap submit button in TBUI

2010-08-11T16:15:00.006+10:00

In my last article, we encountered a new behaviour in Siebel that allows TBUI to re-use its buttons and dynamically generate different button labels depending on what view the user is on. For...

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