Encountered many issues while working on Local Database Extract on Unix environment, with this post I want to share all issues and its solution as well. Steps for DB Extract in Unix Environment: Step 1. Create User -> Employee with required fields(Position & Responsibilities) Step 2. Register user in Siebel Remote->Mobile client Step 3. Open Command Prompt and connect to server manager…
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How to show Confirm Diaglog from Server End in Siebel ?
Well we got many ways to interact with user from Browser Script or using OpenUI PM/PR files. But what if we are restricted to use any of these and we need this interaction from Server end only. And yes we have very limited options and that too.. well hidden Vanilla Business Services, although you can find few articles on web…
How to configure to display Recent Records in Siebel CRM
Requirement: Configure Recent Records on Screen Home Page View Solution: The Recent Records area on a screen home page view displays a list of the last five records in the current screen that the user created, modified, or accessed. This task is a step in Process of Creating a Screen Home Page View. NOTE: Recent Records only works with business components that…
How to open BI Publisher reports inside Siebel using Symbolic Urls
Requirement: Open BI Publisher reports inside Siebel applets. [su_slider source=”media: 1249,1247″ link=”lightbox” target=”blank” width=”1420″ height=”700″ autoplay=”0″] Solution: We can achieve this using Symbolic URLs in Siebel. We have to follow below steps: Add host entry in Host Administration Configure Symbolic URL Host entry in Host Administration – Navigate to the Administration – Integration screen, then the Host Administration view.…
All you should know about XSLT Transformation
What is XSLT? XSLT, Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations provides the ability to transform XML data from one format to another automatically. How XSLT works? An XSLT stylesheet is used to define the transformation rules to be applied on the target XML document. XSLT stylesheet is written in XML format. Why do we need this? We need XSLT for any kind…
Storing Objects in Web Browsers in HTML 5
I find this web storage feature of HTML 5 very useful especially when we want to save some user behavior in Siebel using OpenUI Physical Renderer files. It is really exciting because we can save user’s data in users’ browser itself. But be very careful while saving your data because it can be a security breach as well. What is…
BI Publisher Reports open in full window instead of Siebel IFRAME
Bug 17515051 – IFRAME SSO DISPOSITION IS NOT WORKING What I am trying to achieve? I want to open BI Publisher reports in Siebel using Symbolic Urls. Issue On accessing Scheduled Reports or Reports History (‘My BIP Reports’ > ‘Scheduled Reports’ view > ) does not stay under Siebel header. Instead, it leaves Siebel application and opens the BI Publisher…
How to Reset Siebel Server and clean all files ?
The advice on clearing .shm and .osdf is generically good, however does sometimes fail and then it is important to consider deleting and recreating the siebsrvr/sys/svc* (Siebel service) and recreate with siebctl command. You may have to kill some other process as well. The full clean up solution as documented by Siebel is provided below for completeness: In order to…
How Can You Test Connectivity to a SMTP Mail Server?.
In case you are not able to send mails from Siebel and needs to test the connectivity of Siebel Servers to SMTP mail servers. This post will help you for sure. Obtain the IP address of the SMTP Mail Server Example: mail.askmesiebel.com Obtain the numerical IP address to confirm which host you are connecting to. From a Microsoft Windows or…
Siebel schema export and import from one Siebel DB server to other
This is in continuation of my last post. So, before going through, please check this: How to get export of Siebel database to a dump file In my last post, we have exported siebel database in a dump file. Now we will import this dump file to another databse server. Step 1: Get ready dump file what we have exported…