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.