Questions Siebel developers are googling

Every now and then I inspect my google analytics to see what other siebel developers are searching when google shows up this blog in the search list. Some of them are quite intriguing. Feel free to answer them in the comments below.

Question : when to use subprocess in workflow in siebel?

Answer : Sub-processes are are standalone workflows which are developed to perform task on one instance of the business object. They are usually used when primary workflow is working on one business object and there is a need to work on data in another business object.

For example there is a workflow configured on button click of Quote record, you would use Quote BO to handle the request. However if there is a need to get Asset information, you would create another workflow based on Asset BO and send Asset Id as Object Id to handle the request.

Question :how to cheat siebel sadmin password through bs run

Answer : That's an interesting question. I think someone is trying obfuscate the user id of the current user and act like SADMIN. Well in that case user can create asynchronous server request to execute business service which will login via standard SADMIN profile in most of the implementations. Hope this helps 😃

Question : how to proceed the code after raiseerrortext in siebel escript?

Answer : RaiseErrorText method on application object is an special function, it serves two purpose,

1. It stops the current thread of execution, if loop is getting executed control will come out of the loop
2. Throws an exception to the parent calling thread.
3. Shows the error on screen if user has initiated the transaction.

One can try placing try catch around Raise Error Text to trap the execution, but I wonder when someone would want to do that.

Question : how to hide applet in pr file siebel?

Answer : Applets can be hidden using CSS, JS in PR file by finding the div tag of the applet. However best place to do that would be in the View SWT files.

Question : what are escripts limitation in siebel

Answer : Looks like someone form salesforce have joined back Siebel Projects 😃 well there is no governor limits in Siebel which needs to be taken into account while designing any solution.One can execute the script as long as you want, just keep in mind you can only work on 10K records for one query, and one can query again to work on next 10K records. So overall I don't think there is any major limitations.