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This post is a result of my sheer frustration for not getting this right in a 100 tries. I had been trying to validate the email addresses being entered in Siebel. I tried a lot of ways to get it to work (Data Validation Manager, Runtime events, Configuration etc) but the darn thing would just not work. I had to ultimately resort to the "boo hoo"- Script! I thought this would be useful for a lot of Siebel guys out there, will save you from all that frustration.(Checks/validates for a comma separated list of emails as well) Code: function BusComp_PreWriteRecord () {     try     {         this.ActivateField("Email Address");         if (this.GetFieldValue("Email Address") != "")         {             var sEmail = this.GetFieldValue("Email Address");             var sPattern = /((\w+...

Party business components are fundamental element of the application architecture. They are like piece of beautifully composed music crystallized together in order to reflect the complexities in business environment. Party model helps in the grouping of data according to business logic. The primary difference between Party and Non-Party BC's is in the manner data is stored. For Non-Party BC's data is primarily stored in base tables while for party BC data is stored in extension tables. There are 8 prominent extension tables used for party data storage. Now the question surfaces is how siebel determines which extension table to be used for Person-related BC or which extension table should be used for Organization-related BC. Where this mapping in the Account or Contact BC is given that decides which extension table to use? Answer lies in the Buscomp user properties. "Inner Join Extension Table n" user property specifies an extension table to S_PARTY for which the join...

Very strange behaviour I observed today while working on a performance issue where whenever user do a query in Purchase Order Pick applet, query was taking more than 1 minute to execute in thin client but the same query behaves perfectly fine in dedicated client.So while working on any performance issue, you always want to see the performance on dedicated client as well, so I did the same.1. Took

One of the interesting requirements I heard recently to put a check on the business component to accept only those records which has the unique value in specified fields. Actual requirement goes this way: “Opportunity Product” is the child business component of “Opportunity” Business Component. System should not allow adding the Opportunity Product record with the same “Product” associated with

Applet Messages are quite useful in scenarios where one has to display help text to end user in the applet itself. We do have ihelp also but ihelp's are view specific and if we have multiple toggles defined in applet with different operations on each applet then ihelp may not be a good option. One can also go for direct modification of applet WebTemplates but again it will include maintainence overhead. An applet message allows to combine static text and dynamic data which can be displayed on applet. With little bit of HTML one can also add zing to the message. Siebel bookshelf has elaborated the usage and configuration of Applet Messages how ever one thing is missed there(correct HTML Type) that i will try to fill out here. Let's say we need to add some help text on the SR form applet. Following steps are required to add an Applet Message. 1 - The applet message is configured using the Applet Message and Applet Message Variable object types. Query for the applet you want to ad...

A lot has been said and written about removing null tags in xml messages. Any integration ace will always suggest to go for XSLT to transform XML while an siebel eScript enthusiast will defend stating business service will be ideal way to achieve this. But a laggard like me is always in search of solution which is easier to implement and flexible enough to handle frequent changes. After peppering siebel forums one of my friend came up with devilicious idea of using the data mappers itself to remove the null tags. As per siebel booskshelf: " The Integration Component Fields list displays the list of fields for that component. Note the system fields Conflict Id, Created, Id, Mod Id, Updated, operation, and searchspec in the list. This setting prevents the EAI Siebel Adapter Query and QueryPage method from outputting these fields." It says that system fields are not the part of output XML. Any integration field of type "System" is not included in the ouput siebel messa...

Lot of things in siebel are still not documented. Talk about those magical user properties or custom classes with super natural powers, most of them needs to be discovered by trial only. Recently while working on the Siebel ASI, my eyes started gleaming when i saw "Siebel-Authored" flag in Data Map editor screen. My initial hollow guess was this flag might be used by siebel to identify predefault data mappers which are used by ASI. But after checking in sample i confronted that this flag was blank for all records. Out of curiosity i started searching for usage of this flag but was not able to hunt down much. Please feel free to add comment in case you have any clue about this flag. Happy Cracking!!