Siebel Consultant Diary of a Siebel Consultant

Typo

Today I was modifying an Email template which is used to send out Opportunity details. The template consists of several template items that already existed but needed to be changed.

On of the template items displays several fields of the account linked to the opportunity such as Account Name, Address fields and some other. As I make my changes and test them I see that the field [Street Address 2] doesn’t show the value of the field but just the name of the field.

I switch to Tools to see if I’m using the correct field and see that the field name is not Street Address 2 but Street Address Line 2. So I change the name of the field in my template item (by hand, not by copy/past) and try again but still no value is showing.

Back to tools to check the name of the field and then I saw my mistake. The name of the field is not Street Address Line 2 but Stree Address Line 2. I immediately think of a typo from me but when I do an About Record for that field I see that it’s a Siebel Vanilla field and that the type is from one of the developers of Siebel.

I was glad to see that even those guys at Siebel make stupid typo’s and do see them.

Siebel Forum

A while ago I was discussing with a colleague that we couldn’t find a very good forum about Siebel and that it would be convenient that we would have a forum for all the employees of our company.

And then I suggested, why not make one ourself. And since I already had a very good domain name, the URL for the forum was easily found: http://forum.siebel.be.

It will probably begin as a forum for our company but we hope that it can grow to a international forum for Siebel developers. That’s why we chose to use English instead of Dutch what would have been logical since we are a Belgian company.

You can visit it here. If you like it, you can help by spreading the word and placing a link on your website/blog and promote it to your co-workers. Thanks in advance.