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Predefault a Field based on Applets

A user wants to set different Predefault Values for a Field exposed in different Applets. 

Solution: A Vanilla Applet User Property ‘PostInvokeMethod’ Can be used in the above Scenario   

Siebel

Time zone implementation for Oracle BI reporting

To implement multiple Time zone implementations, one has to modify the instanceconfig.xml to invoke certain OOB features available with OBI implementation.

Things to consider before implementing multiple time zones:

  • Data obtained from the source systems have to be stored in GMT in the OLAP Database.

Siebel Analytics & OBIEE

Analytics Password Automation

There have been cases in analytics repository migration where the entire repository (popularly known as rpd in the developers circle) files needs to be moved to other environments due to code merge issues or developers not adhering to coding standards or due to any unforeseen issues.
Siebel Analytics & OBIEE

Generating user and group list from Analytics Repository using VB Script

Default analytics repository based authentication get a little tedious to generate the list of users and associated groups via the manual process. To simply this, a VB Script can be written and used to generate the list of users and associated groups. This script uses the UDML export of the repository to generate the list in text file.
 
This text file is a delimited format file, which can be imported to Microsoft Excel for further analysis.
Siebel Analytics & OBIEE

Report Formatting by editing XML in Oracle BI

Pivot Tables in Siebel Analytics and Oracle BI does not provide option to display more than one decimal place in the report out-of-box. The business might need more for their analysis. To display more decimal places, the report XML can be edited. This can be done using advanced tab and changing the attributes minDigits and maxDigits in XML as shown below.

E.g.

Siebel Analytics & OBIEE

Overcome Error while Checkout

A common error encountered while doing an object Checkout/Get is –
Siebel-ERR-1109: Unable to read value from export file (Data length (4) > Column definition (1));
 
Solution :
 
Siebel Tools error during checkout / get are almost associated with the local repository having a different schema. In general,  to resolve this issue, we generate a new database template and do a database extract.
Siebel Admin

Object Locking using Developer logins

Unable to enable object lock with other configured administrator user than SADMIN. For each project you can specify whether or not developers are allowed to check out and check in individual objects within the project. To allow developers to check out and check in objects, you set the project's Allow Object Locking property to TRUE. To modify the Allow Object Locking property, you must use the SADMIN user ID to log in and you must be logged into a server data source.
Siebel Admin

Enabling Users to change Password for Siebel Application

To Enable the Users to change Password for Siebel Application follow below instructions. By Using this particular feature, user can change their password for Siebel Application which will be propagated to the Database as well.

To get the Change password fields enabled for the Web Client:

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