Profile Attributes and Open UI

Yes, Profile Attributes! As the ever attentive, up-to-date Siebel CRM expert that you are when you read this, you know that in Siebel Open UI (since version 15), it is no longer allowed/supported to set Profile Attributes from browser-side script.

But getting them is not a problem, since the GetProfileAttr function works perfectly fine.

Recently I found a few vanilla Profile Attributes that came quite handy in my work in Open UI JavaScript:

• Navigation Type: stores the navigation type such as "NAVIGATION_TAB"
• ActiveViewName: does what it says on the tin
• IsOpenUI: returns "1" when the application runs in Open UI
• Is SUI Theme: when "TRUE", the application theme is Synergy (aka SUI)
• Position: returns the currently active position
• Primary Responsibility Name: guess what this one is…
• Profile Image: returns the URL of the user's profile image
• Org.Name: returns the name of the user's organization

Here's a sample line of code how to call the GetProfileAttr method in Open UI JavaScript:

SiebelApp.S_App.GetProfileAttr('Navigation Type');

Have you used some of these (or others) with your Open UI customizations? Please find the comments and share your experience.

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