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To be honest, I like Mondays. And it's Thursday. But it made such a catchy title ;-) This article will show you how to hide Oracle BI 11g Presentation Layer objects on Mondays, hence the title. Introduced in OBI 11.1.1.6.2 (or so), we can define a conditional expression to control whether a presentation layer object (Subject Area, Presentation Table, Presentation Column) should be visible to the end user or hidden. The property is called Hide object if . As per the documentation , we can use the field in three ways. Enter a constant : 0 (zero) will display the object. Any non-zero value will hide the object. Use a variable : Initialize a (session) variable and use it in the expression. Again, if the variable value is 0 (zero), the object will be visible, otherwise it will be hidden. Provide a comparison : You can use a limited set of functions and operators to evaluate conditions. For example, the following expression will be 'true' (or non-zero) when the current day is a M...

It has become a habit of mine to provide you with some 'blasts from the past' from time to time. This is not because I have grown lazy (believe me, there's a lot of writing these days ;-) but to serve the 'younger' generation of Siebel Essentials followers who might not have had the opportunity to read all the posts (does anyone ever scroll down that far to the blog archive?). 5 years can make a big difference in the IT world and there's much that becomes obsolete. But when I was looking for a nice article from July 2009, I had a hard time deciding which one I should elicit for a re-post. So I thought I let you pick and choose from a list of well-ripened articles from the summer of 2009 and let you decide which you like best. I picked the ones which are still relevant today (most probably). What about some interesting arguments for good ol' EAI Siebel Adapter ? A classic: CRLF in eScript . Passing arguments from Commands to Business Services . Everything yo...

With Innovation Pack 2013, the Siebel Open UI API provides the possibility to invoke business service methods (and methods in general) asynchronously . This is documented ( here too ) and my friend Neel from Siebel Unleashed was the first to blog about this exciting feature. Today I would like to share with you how I put this new feature to good use. Do you remember the "Sortable Screen Tabs" series from last summer (has it really been one year already)? Recently, I was revisiting the code and the way it invoked the business service which modifies the Tab Layout data. This is the "original" code to instantiate and invoke the service. var oSvc = SiebelApp.S_App.GetService("AHA Tab Layout Service"); var inPS = SiebelApp.S_App.NewPropertySet(); var outPS = SiebelApp.S_App.NewPropertySet(); inPS.SetProperty("sTabs", tabarray.toString()); outPS = oSvc.InvokeMethod("SetTabLayout", inPS); When I look at the above code today, I must confess i...

Whenever I have the opportunity of teaching BI Publisher, be it the "stand-alone" BI Publisher Fundamentals class or the Siebel BI Publisher Reports class, I especially enjoy the chapters on RTF Templates. As an extra service to my students (and now to the greater public), I have put together a simple RTF template which showcases more advanced RTF template techniques. This file and other hopefully useful examples are available here . Ever wanted to have a BIP report with table of contents? When you download the archive and open it, you might want to start with the  BI Publisher Advanced Template Formatting.rtf file and open it in MS Word. If you have BI Publisher Desktop (aka Template Builder for Word) installed, you can load the sales.xml sample file and start generating previews (see the PDF output above). The RTF file contains several examples and explanations such as: Table of contents / bookmarks Sub-templates for header and footer (uses the HeaderFooter.rtf file wh...

It is not without some parental joy that we announce a new Siebel CRM book  to be published this winter. Together with three of the most distinguished Siebel Open UI experts, this humble writer is currently working on putting together useful information and case studies for the upcoming book: Oracle Siebel Open UI Developer's Handbook In this book, you will: Learn all about the Siebel Open UI Architecture Learn to create custom Presentation Models and Physical Renderers Learn advanced techniques for Open UI customization Understand how to apply custom styles and themes Customize and deploy Siebel Mobile Applications Integrate Siebel Open UI with external applications and more (see below) As a frequent reader of this blog, you know that the book authors are truly committed to sharing information: Duncan Ford Alexander Hansal Kirk Leibert Jan Peterson We expect the book to be published in Winter 2014/2015 and plan to align it with Siebel CRM Innovation Pack 2014. We are happy to anno...

Last Friday, Oracle has made Siebel Patchset 9 (8.1.1.11.9/8.2.2.4.9 - IP 2013) for July 2014 available on My Oracle Support . The "Readme" document  (Oracle Support login required) lists the bugs resolved which are/were in the following areas: Open UI Mobile Applications Marketing UCM Others Naturally, Open UI and Mobile Applications got a lot of attention from the good people at Oracle. So if you're missing some functionality or encounter bugs: Time to patch! have a nice day @lex

Earlier this year, I have been invited by ec4u expert consulting AG Germany to take part in a workshop. My job was to deliver Siebel Open UI training as well as discuss a new tool that ec4u planned to implement. The tool should enable administrative users to quickly change the appearance of list and form applets in Siebel Open UI without having to use Siebel Tools. I was intrigued and inspired by the presentation of the tool during the workshop. Just recently, ec4u has released the new tool, which now goes by the name ' Application Composer for Siebel Open UI '. As we can learn from the fact sheet , the Application Composer provides an administrative view (and underlying data model) to store personalization/customization metadata for list and form applets. Administrators can for example define which applet controls shall be hidden for certain responsibilities, positions, languages or organizations. It is also possible to make fields mandatory, read-only or change the labels at...

Here is some amazing OpenUI experiments.  is it windows 8?? no its siebel  1.  2.  3. 4.  5.  6. 7.