My Siebel Toolkit

Aside from Siebel Tools, I’ve found a number of useful applications that I use day to day to make my Siebel life easier. I thought I’d share this with you in the hope it helps you too: Textpad – the text editor of choice. Whether it’s editing CFG files or perusing large log files, this [...]

Inbound Web Service – Part 4 – Testing

Our Web Service is complete – now we can use soapUI to test it. First up, make sure everything is deployed: SRF – compiled and deployed to the server Workflow Process – Deployed through Tools and Activated through the Web Client. Double check that the Integration Object property has been set against the ‘SiebelMessage’ process [...]

Inbound Web Service – Part 3 – Web Service

Now that we have our IO and Workflow Process defined, we can look at exposing these through a Web Service. Luckily, Siebel has a number of functions that will allow us to do this quickly and easily! Having tested the Workflow Process that we created last time, check in the IO and Workflow Process. Compile [...]

Inbound Web Service – Part 2 – Workflow Process

Having created our IO, we can now move on to the Workflow Process. We’ll use this to pull in the inputs, extract the data and map it into the IO. Start off by creating a new Workflow Process in the Project that we created last time. Call it ‘My Web Service Workflow’ and set the [...]

Inbound Web Service – Part 1 – Integration Object

To begin creating our Inbound Web Service, let’s first recall what that means: we’re going to expose some function of Siebel for an external client to access. There are two basic entities that we can expose externally: Workflow Processes and Business Services. Siebel Tools offers some really helpful functions to expose Workflows so we’ll take [...]

Siebel Web Services

A recent requirement at one of our clients saw the need to dig deep into the realms of integration and Web Services. It’s one of those concepts that is big in the business and shrouded in mystery and complexity. With a bit of reading and a bit of practical application, it really isn’t that difficult [...]

Siebel 7.8 Upgrade Woes

We recently upgraded one of our clients from 7.8.2.4 SIA to 7.8.2.8 SIA. There were a number of reasons for doing this, the main one being support for IE 7 which was being deployed throughout the organisation. We were also looking forward to some bug fixes and perhaps a performance tweak here and there as [...]