Archives » April, 2007

Creating new Profile Attribute

For some applets in our application it was implemented that only a user with a certain position could create new records. To do this, I used scripting to enable/disable the invoke of the method if the user had the correct position. Since this was done with the position name hardcoded in the script, this was [...]

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Disable Print Preview menu item

We received the requirement to disable the Print Preview functionality in the entire application.
After searching a while, my colleague asked for help because he didn’t found anything on Supportweb about this and all his tries to disable it failed. Inactivating the Menu Item ‘File - Print Preview’ didn’t result in greying out the option from [...]

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Using Supportweb without logging in

Everybody who works with Siebel and therefor uses Supportweb will probably know about this trick but I mention it anyway (for those who should not know it yet).
When you want to search Supportweb for something you must need a login. If you just want to search, you can use a read-only login. If you want [...]

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Development environment down

Today, the most unbelievable thing happened. We are in a very critical stage of the project since we are trying to make a release without issues in order to go live next week. Therefor we are working very long days.
Today around 5 o’clock I wanted to checkout a project from the server when I received [...]

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Yesterday I was telling that is was a slow day with nothing much to do and that I did not like it. Well, today was the complete oposite. It started as a slow day, but then completely changed.
The day started with retesting all bugs reported by our team, because the testers did not know how [...]

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Slow day

Last Friday we’ve made the (hopefully) last compile before going live next week. All major bugs and some small change request reported by the testers are included in this compile so we had a busy week last week.
Today was rather slow. I only had to do two minor issues and look into a problem with data [...]

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