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Time again to stimulate your grey cells. Architectural differences between SI and HI clients are well documented. Recently working with SI application we observed a strange thing. SI client handles processing of error/Validation messages from BC layer and UI layer in different ways. While invoking RaiseErrorText from BC error message was displayed on the top view bar but while invoking the same from applet was taking to different error web page resulting in context loss. User has to click Back button to go to previous page. Same holds true for DVM messages. While invoking from BC layer using run time events the error message is displayed on the same view but while invoking from UI layer error message is displayed in different error web page. I am not able to break this thing why it behaves differently on different layers. Any insight/thought on this would be of some help. Happy Debugging!!

Working with SI applications can be as good as playing with fire. Recently we faced an issue when some naughty users clicked button multiple times resulting in underline action getting executed multiple times. As in case of SI applications, if the method is taking time to execute then button is not disabled it remains active giving end user an impression of nothing-is-happening. So user may end up clicking the button multiple times. The only way to prevent multiple clicks is to disable button as soon as it is clicked. Fortunately there is an article on support which provides solution to achieve the desired but a scripted one. Following piece of code can be used to disable button after click. function WebApplet_ShowControl (ControlName, Property, Mode, &HTML) {     if(ControlName == "SubmitButton")     {       if(Property == "FormattedHtml")       {           var index = HTML.indexOf("onclick...

Cosmetics may be a weapon of women but it is always better to look over rather than over looked. Siebel OOB comes with a soothing look and feel but still it may not fit into coloring schemes. In this post we will discuss about some basic UI modifications. Statutory Warning: Please take backup of existing files before you play around. 1 - Changing Oracle logo This is the foremost change which should be done. lookout for the " CCFrameBanner.swt " template file and modify below code to suit your requirement. <td align="right"><a href="http://www.oracle.com" target="_blank" ><swe:image name="POWERED_BY" category="HTML Control Icons"/></a></td> Change this code to below code <td align="right"><a href="http://YOURURL.com" TARGET="_blank"><img src = "images/YOURIMAGE.jpg" height ="30"></a></td> 2 - Changing login screen In or...

Distinct clause is one of the powerful clause in SQL which helps to remove duplicates from the result set. In real time scenarios we are bound to have requirements which involves updates or removal of distinct records. Siebel provides a,how-i-missed-type, "Distinct" property on business components that helps us to achieve just this. Business components in siebel 7.8 and higher have this property. Setting this property to TRUE allows the equivalent of a select distinct query as it suppresses system fields.This property enforces a "DISTINCT" clause on all fields present in the BC, which may lead to errors during execution. It is better to clone business component and include only fields which are required in distinct clause. Document ID 867149.1 in support web explains this siebel virtue in detail. Happy Crunching!!