Rene Schmidt

Starting in Siebel IP2013, a little known enhancement was introduced in Oracle’s clinical trial management system (CTMS): the ability to incorporate Siebel SmartScripts directly into trip reports. What are SmartScripts? According to Oracle’s official documentation, “Siebel SmartScript allows business analysts, call center managers, and Siebel developers to create scripts to define the application workflow for interactive customer communications. […]

A couple of months ago, I wrote a blog post on how to find and install the latest patchset release for Siebel IP2016. While we’re in the middle of 2017 and still waiting for IP2017 to be released, Oracle managed to sneak in another patch release for IP2016. Below are a couple of screenshots that […]

As you might know, by default, you can export data from any Siebel list applet. Here is where you invoke the export: Recently, I had a client who wished to disable the ability to export data from Siebel, except for in one particular view. I’ve never seen this documented anywhere before, so I thought I […]

Our clients are always looking for better or different ways to import data from other systems or from spreadsheets into their Siebel applications. In this blog post, I examine one such method; drag and drop. Starting in Siebel 8.1.1.11 (with patch set 4 applied), you have the ability to drag and drop from applications like […]

Recently, one of our Oracle Siebel Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) clients noted that the rollups feature, which collates information from lower levels of the data type hierarchy into a single view (e.g., all site records within a single region or country), was not working properly. Specifically, the fields that indicate the number of subjects […]

I thought it might be helpful to provide instruction on how I set up each virtual machine to support the Oracle Siebel Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) implementation and integration projects I work on. As I mentioned in a previous post, I have a clone master for each version of Siebel that I keep offline […]

While Siebel developers have always been encouraged to use non-scripting solutions to implement custom business functionality, almost every Siebel Clinical (CTMS) implementation project that I have worked on has included an integration component, and in almost every instance, it has required some coding with Siebel eScript. But, how do you debug your custom code? For […]

While we are waiting with bated breath for Siebel Innovation Pack 2017 (IP2017), Oracle managed to sneak in a patch release for IP2016. Here is how you can find version 16.10 on the “My Oracle Support” site: Side Note: I attended an IP2017 dog-and-pony show last week and saw a lot of goodies for everyone. […]

As a technical resource at Perficient, many of the projects I work on relate to Siebel CTMS upgrades. Usually, our customers who are running Siebel CTMS 8.1.1.11, or earlier versions are interested in upgrading to the latest version. As of today, the most recent version is 16.9. At a high level, Siebel CTMS upgrade projects […]

One of the challenges that I face at my job is supporting multiple clients that use different versions of Siebel Clinical (CTMS). Not only are they different versions, but each instance has been uniquely configured and enhanced. With many clients to support, plus internal product development efforts, I needed to find a way to run […]

Oracle recently announced the general availability of the latest patchset for Siebel Innovation Pack 2016 (IP2016). Patchset 16.9 can be found on Oracle Support, although it is a little tricky to locate. Use these search terms to find it: For Windows, you would select this file: This takes you to the download window and the […]

I have seen quite a few blog posts on how to setup Siebel Innovation Pack 2016 (IP2016) in a test bed environment, but very little chatter on how to actually install IP2016 Siebel Tools (Tools) and use it in a real development project. Hopefully, this will help some of you out there. Feel free to […]