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Siebel Developer: 3/7/10 - 3/14/10
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Tips and Tricks for Siebel development from an expert in the field. Friday, March 12, 2010. Interview Question #2 - What is a Siebel Operation Step? This interview question uses a technical term to test a Siebel Developer's understanding of a topic. "Siebel Operation" can be almost anything to someone who does not have a basic familiarity with Siebel Workflow, but it is an everyday term for any Workflow Developer. Q: Please explain what a Siebel Operation is, and how it is used. Workflow Process Steps op...
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Siebel Developer: Workflow Policies vs Workflow Processes
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Tips and Tricks for Siebel development from an expert in the field. Saturday, September 4, 2010. Workflow Policies vs Workflow Processes. A Workflow Process is a program that runs on the Siebel server. It is defined through a graphical interface as a set of steps. When the process runs, a single record is processed. The workflow process steps are performed as a series of data operations. Do not be confused between the Business Object that is part of the Workflow Process definition and the Workflow Policy...
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Siebel Developer: 4/26/09 - 5/3/09
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Tips and Tricks for Siebel development from an expert in the field. Friday, May 1, 2009. Get Rid of Dead Code. How many Siebel developers believe that the best way to remove lines of code from an existing script is to put some comment characters in front of the un-needed code, preventing it from executing. Many developers will copy an existing line of code to change an operation or add a condition, "commenting" the original version instead of deleting it. - Added 5/3. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Siebel C...
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Siebel Developer: 9/6/09 - 9/13/09
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Tips and Tricks for Siebel development from an expert in the field. Monday, September 7, 2009. Setting the SSA Primary Field. When I started configuring Siebel, I was mostly self-taught, which means that I usually settled for the first way I found of accomplishing my goal. Setting the primary record on a multi-value group through script is one example. The SSA Primary field does not correspond directly to a database column. The SSA Primary field is editable. Using the SSA Primary field, here is the corre...
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Siebel Developer: 1/17/10 - 1/24/10
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Tips and Tricks for Siebel development from an expert in the field. Wednesday, January 20, 2010. Simple Input Validation through HTML Attributes. A Siebel form applet is an HTML form, and the controls are input elements on those forms. The HTML Attributes property of a Control object provides an opportunity to insert a JavaScript event to the input element. OnkeyUp="if(/[ 0-9 -]/.test(this.value) ){ alert('The Social Security Number field accepts only numeric data.'); this.value=' ;}". The above validati...
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Siebel Developer: 4/4/10 - 4/11/10
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Tips and Tricks for Siebel development from an expert in the field. Monday, April 5, 2010. Abstracting Database Passwords in Batch Scripts. Scripts invoking the Siebel Server Manager command-line interface can be a powerful tool for automating server tasks, but connecting to the command-line interface on a Windows server requires the following syntax:. Srvrmgr /g gateway1 /e enterprise1 /s server1 /u sadmin /p sadmin. In the above command the /u and /p arguments require a valid username and password usin...
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Siebel Developer: 2/14/10 - 2/21/10
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Tips and Tricks for Siebel development from an expert in the field. Thursday, February 18, 2010. Interview Question #1 - What is a Link? When I interview someone, my questions are designed to discover what a candidate knows, not bolster my ego by proving that I know something the candidate doesn't. I focus on the fundamentals of Siebel configuration, allowing the candidate to demonstrate the depth of his or her knowledge. Q: Please describe the Siebel configuration object called a "Link". Links are defin...
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Siebel Developer: 1/24/10 - 1/31/10
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Tips and Tricks for Siebel development from an expert in the field. Tuesday, January 26, 2010. It's simple to avoid, but it is surprising how often developers will make the mistake of implementing new functionality without first verifying that it will work with data that already inhabit the database. The best practice is to carefully test to be sure that new functionality works with old data. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Elastic List Applets @ IP 2015. Customer Relationship Managment(CRM) - A Developer's ...
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Siebel Developer: 5/10/09 - 5/17/09
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Tips and Tricks for Siebel development from an expert in the field. Wednesday, May 13, 2009. Manager-based visibility is one of the toughest concepts for Siebel users to understand, and it also is a little tricky to simulate in a SQL-based query tool, so I thought I would post a summary of some of the basic concepts. With single-position access control like with the Quote Bus Comp, Manager visibility returns all records associated with my position or with any of my reports positions. Before you start won...