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During many circumstances especially while using web services, we traverse through the property sets to check for different things and take appropriate action. One of those checks could be to check the expected property exists. PropertyExists method in Siebel eScript ensures that the specified property exists in a property set. This is a very useful method. The check is similar to using an if statement after ExecuteQuery() to make sure that it returns at least one record. This PropertyExists method is be used with if statements. This post can also fall under one of the best practices while writing eScript.
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While I was working on eScript I came across the method GetMVGBusComp which is one of Best Practices in eScripting and I thought of posting it here. Details about this method below.

Tip 11:Use GetMVGBusComp Method to get the MVG records

As the method name suggests it gets the Business Component of the record that MVG is based on. This is a very helpful Method that would save a several lines of unnecessary code.
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In this post I will explain what a property set is, how it looks and how to build a property set using eScript.

Property set is a set of data containing Type, Property and Value. It is stored in a form of XML. For example, when you write a business service a script under Service_PreInvokeMethod and Inputs to this is a property set and it could something like this. (more…)

This post is contributed by Lakshmi. She is a regular visitor of SiebelGuide.com blogs. On behalf of all our visitors I thank Lakshmi for her participation and sharing her knowledge.

Assume there 2 IC fields (Field1, Field 2) for an IC.

Field 2 has to be update only after Field1 is updated.

Then FieldDependency User Property should use on IC Field as – (more…)

If you look into Site Map->Administration-Application->System Preferences there is a parameter defined “Universal Time Coordinated”. This parameter can either be TRUE or FALSE. By default this value is set to TRUE during Siebel Installation. The decision to set this parameter to either TRUE or FALSE is decided depending on whether your Siebel deployment is Global or Local.

Let me try to explain this by setting this parameter “Universal Time Coordinated” to different values. (more…)

The purpose of this blog is to describe the use of Transcode Business service and how to use it while working with Siebel Workflow process.

I was developing a Siebel workflow process and as usual I was developing on my local. The purpose of my Siebel workflow process was get an XML message as a string data and log the incoming XML into a table and then process the XML to insert an Opportunity using Siebel EAI Adapter. Below is what the workflow process looked like. (more…)

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…)

Before we start to debug any Business Service or simulate any Workflow we need to provide Siebel Tools with some runtime parameters otherwise Tools will throw errors.

Below are the setup details for Siebel Tools. (more…)