Siebel Interview Questions: All about Calculated Fields

How to update a calculated field in Siebel ? Calculated fields do not support updates (even simple expressions like [Field]), unless specialized business components override SqlSetFieldValue. But this answer can be proved wrong with some stupid workarounds…see the next one How to make Calculated Fields editable ? By default, calculated fields are read-only but we can make it editable. Create a…

Siebel Interview Questions: Basic Scripting Examples

  How to send emails using Siebel Scripting ?   //Using SendMessage var bsOutBound = TheApplication().GetService(“Outbound Communications Manager”); var psInput = TheApplication().NewPropertySet(); var psOutput = TheApplication().NewPropertySet(); psInput.SetProperty(“CommProfile”,”Default SMTP Profile”); psInput.SetProperty(“ProcessMode”,”Remote”); psInput.SetProperty(“MsgToList”, <email string>); psInput.SetProperty(“MsgBody”, <body string>); psInput.SetProperty(“MsgSubject”, <subject string>); bsOutBound.InvokeMethod(“SendMessage”, psInput, psOutput);     //Using CreateRequest var bs = TheApplication().GetService(“Outbound Communications Manager”); var inputs = TheApplication().NewPropertySet(); var outputs = TheApplication().NewPropertySet();…

Siebel Integration with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn using Siebel OpenUI

I have posted this video on Siebel groups and I got very good response from Siebel community. So, I have decided to explain steps of integrating this plugin and make it available for all. Lets call it.. Siebel Social Integration Plugin [su_youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzWnGZupueI” width=”540″ height=”360″] In this post, I will explain all pre-requisites for this plugin and how it works.…

#OOW16: Customer Success Stories after implementing Siebel OpenUI

Here are few success stories of big giants after implementing or upgrading to Siebel OpenUI latest versions. American Airlines Siebel Loyalty with 800 users and over 100 million members The primary goal was to leave Internet Explorer 8 and reduce Average Handling Time Biggest challenges for example were Web Client Integrations, and some complex CTI redesign. [su_slider source=”media: 1426,1425,1427,1428,1429,1424″ link=”lightbox” target=”blank”…

#OOW16: Reasons to get back to Oracle Siebel CRM

This post is dedicated for those Siebel clients/customers who have moved to some other technology or planning for any change. After reading this, they will have good number of reasons to rethink about Siebel. 1.) Siebel CRM Roadmap  Target for Autonomous CRM upto 2030 and this time roadmap is pointing to infinity and beyond. 2.) Siebel Transformation Strategy Diamond represents…

#OOW16 Awesome Presentation on Siebel CRM Innovations

I was going through Alex’s briefing about today’s presentation on Siebel Innovations in Oracle Open World 2016, and trust me I got soo excited that I can’t stop myself from sharing this instantly. Well presenters are Darshan Kumar and Sonia Wadhwa, they started from innovations done in IP15 & IP16 and talked about innovations in future releases. Here I am sharing snapshots…

Siebel Innovation Pack 2017: Statement of Direction

Yeah, it sounds odd but true we are talking about Innovation Pack 2017.After successful release of IP2016 with lots of brand new promising features like DISA, Composer and Workspaces, Innovation Pack 2017 (17.0) is planned to release within the 1st half of 2017. The Siebel CRM IP2017 Statement of Direction has been already published, and can be found on My…

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…

How to Add Custom User Preferences to Applets in Siebel OpenUI ?

While we are working on a PM/PR, we create property/variables whose scope defined on that applet or view inside PM/PR only. So, what we can do if we want an enhancement which can be remembered even after: – navigate to other screen and then navigate back – Logoff and login again Yes, we can create and set our custom User…