This is a very common requirement that Siebel Developer stumble upon. The requirement is to make the field read only based on the view so that the people who are assigned to this view using responsibilities are given read or write access.
Example Requirement: Make the field “Status” readonly for the view “Opportunity List Admin View” but all other views should have this field non-readonly. (more…)
Siebel Workflows can be tested using Simulators. Using simulators we set the input process properties to some valid values and execute the simulator. Siebel provides two types of Simulator to test Workflows: Process Simulators and Business Service Simulators. (more…)
Predefined Query, also called as PDQs in Siebel are very handy for end users. The end users often execute the same query multiple times or also the requirement could be such that as soon as the person navigates a particular view a default set of records should be displayed. Instead of redoing the query again and again we setup PDQs for this. (more…)
Today I was working in developing Web Services in Siebel and I realized that I need to send an XML message embedded in a SOAP envelope. When I was testing it I realized that Siebel did not like the special characters inside the xml elements because the parser had special meaning to it and would either ignore or error it. (more…)
With Siebel versions 7.8 and above, project checkouts have been disabled by default. Instead we have object checkouts which are more flexible and allow multiple developers to work on the same project. So if you go into Siebel Tools and navigate to Tools-> Check Out and select any project, the Checkout button will be disabled. (more…)
