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As an addendum to my previous post here i publish a mini symbolic string locator . It can help you to identify at what all places any particular symbolic string is being used. As a part of beta release it searches only at the Applet(List + Control) level. It is available in Downloads section also. This can be of real help in scenario when you are asked to modify any existing symbolic string value and you have to look at objects to compile. The advantage of this tool is you don't have to open any sort of siebel client on your machine while running it. Only you have to remember the DSN name, the one given in the CFG for local client. It takes two parameter as input. Local DSN = The DSN name of your siebel local client and Username/Password. Symbolic String = The symbolic string to search. The Objects sheet gives you flexibility to search the limited objects. The output for each object type is captured in respective object sheet.  If it errors out after giving correct...

Off lately i have been involved in the training and knowledge transfer sessions so delay in writing post. Trust me training is definitely not the best part of job. In one of the sessions i was asked a scorcher of question. Is it possible to find all the places where we have used any profile attribute including tools and client side artifacts ? This prompted me to learn some excel vb and i have come up with an alpha profile hunter tool which guns down profile attributes used in client side artifacts. This tool is available for you for download and trial . It is also available under Downloads link.It takes profile attribute you have specified and searches this attribute in below objects Personalization Applet Personalization Applet - Rule Set Personalization View Personalization - Rule Sets Runtime Events - Objects Runtime Events - Action Sets DVM DVM - Rule Set A simple SWOT analysis will give you a better detail. Strength - It searches for given Profile attribute acr...