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With a bow to the good people at ec4u expert consulting , I am pleased to present in this article a white paper they put together on a feature of Internet Explorer 11 which is known as Enterprise Mode . In times where IE 8 is the last version that is officially supported by Oracle, customers who have - for whatever reasons - decided not to migrate to Siebel Open UI in the near future and stick with the ActiveX based High Interactivity client, IE 11 Enterprise Mode is the 'silver lining' and allows them to provide end users with modern versions of both Microsoft's operating system and browser. Please note that this article is a replication of the ec4u white paper and makes no statement whatsoever about Oracle's support policies. Please always contact Oracle Support if you have doubts or questions regarding supported platforms for your Siebel deployment. Having stated the above, here is the article provided by ec4u: *** 1. Functionality Enterprise Mode for Internet Explor...

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...