Siebel Consultant Diary of a Siebel Consultant

Searching on Metalink

Yesterday I was looking for more information on Metalink regarding a problem we faced in Siebel – more to come about this issue in a future blogpost. So I typed some words in the search field hoping to get a relevant result.

Surprisingly the third or fourth result was about exactly the same problem we had so I clicked on the link to read more about it. Sadly, the solution provided was not what I expected but there was an Id for a change request. So I copied the Id and pasted in to the search field to find out more about this change request.

There were only 2 results so I wanted to go back to my first search and pressed the back button in Firefox. One click brought me back to the article with the strange solution and I thought I one click on the back button would bring me back to my search results.

But it seems that Metalink performed a new search with the current string in the search field. So I ended up again with the two results for the Id of the change request. I wonder why Metalink does this. If I press back, I actually want to go back to the page I visited before and not get a new search result depending on what is in the search field at that time.

Is there someone from Siebel/Oracle umong my readers that can clarify why this happens?