Siebel Open UI: Enabling Drag & Drop in Calendar Views

If you have applied the monthly patch set 8.1.1.11.4 or later, you would expect to be able to manage activities in the Calendar views by dragging and dropping them onto the calendar applet.

However, to achieve this state of bliss there are a view steps to take in the Siebel repository which is not modified by the patchset.

As the attentive Open UI geek you are, you should know that drag and drop functionality is driven by the presence of two applet user properties, namely

ClientPMUserProp = EnableDragAndDropInList
EnableDragAndDropInList = TRUE

Note that the ClientPMUserProp value could be a comma separated list, so we would have to add "EnableDragAndDropInList" at the end, but this is not the case for today's example.

Basically, all we have to do is to add the above two user properties to the list applets in our calendar views (e.g. the LS Pharma HI Activity Calendar View). If there are toggle applets registered for the base applet, we also must edit each toggle applet's user properties list.

In case of our example view, the base applet is the Pharma Calendar Activity List Applet and its toggle siblings Pharma Calendar Account List Applet, Pharma Calendar Affiliated Professionals List Applet and Pharma Calendar Professional List Applet

Using Siebel Tools (of course), we edit these applets and add the aforementioned user properties. After compiling the applets, we can test the functionality in the calendar view (see screenshot above).

Drag and drop an activity (or account/contact from the toggle applets) onto the calendar and (after watching the drag placeholder magically move back to the list) witness the appearance of a new calendar entry. This works in the daily, weekly and monthly calendar mode, as my tests have confirmed.

have a nice day

@lex