Archives » February, 2007

Removing trailing spaces in eScript

At the moment in Siebel, there is no trim function in eScript available to remove leading spacing in a string. In Vbscript, this function is available but not in eScript. A change request has been created to add this function to eScript.
After searching in supportweb, i came acros a piece of code provided by Siebel [...]

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Flu

It’s flu time and it’s noticeable.
Two people of the project team where home due to the flu and I’m starting to get the symptoms as well. Hopefully I will go away after a good night of sleep because we can’t risk getting behind on schedule and I will need all the time I can get [...]

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Dataload successful

Today I successfully completed my first dataload ever. In a previous project I also did the dataload, but there the SQL files to fill the EIM tables and .ifb files where already written. This load I had to do from scratch.
The project started last week, and I had one week to complete the load since [...]

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Blocked after export

A common bug in the Siebel client is that a user gets blocked after exporting data to a csv file.
When the users chooses ‘Export’ from the menu and saves the file to the harddrive, the hourglass symbol doesn’t change back to the mouse pointer. Strangely enough this only happens when doing a save and not [...]

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Siebel reports and Acrobat Reader

On my current project, we were facing some problems with reporting. When the users try to print a report, they got the pop-up where they could select there printer and press ok to start the print job. However, the job wouldn’t start. Afterwards, if they click on the print icon in Acrobat Reader the reports [...]

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No more long drives

This week is my last week at the project in Roeselare. Starting Monday, I will be working on a new project in Brussels. So no more long drives in the morning and at night but a relaxing train ride to and from work while reading a good book.
On the new project I will be part [...]

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Aligning two environments

Today I have to align the production environment with the test environment. Normally, I would use ADM to do this for the list of values, but they told me that ADM was not active and that I should do it manually, which is not the most easy job.
My technique was going through the appilcation, looking [...]

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