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Posts Tagged ‘Siebel Tools’

Step-by-Step Use of Siebel Composer

After much anticipation, it finally happened, we got a project where the client wanted to use Siebel version 18 (aka IP 2018), which meant that this project was going to be done primarily utilizing the Composer rather than Siebel Tools. When I started the project, I tried to find a brief introduction to the Composer […]

How to Get Context-Sensitive Help in Siebel Tools

There is a better way to get help in Siebel Tools! Suppose you are trying to get help about a business component field property (for example, force active):   You could navigate to the help menu and choose Contents:   Siebel Tools will return a list of all places in which “Force Active” is referenced. […]

Installing Siebel Tools To Be Read-Only

Recently, we had a requirement to create an installation of Siebel Tools that would run against the server database and be READ_ONLY with no ability to change the user that had WRITE privileges. The users of this machine knew the password for SADMIN, and also had the ability to create a new user that had […]

Hidden Properties in Siebel Tools

A colleague of mine recently informed me that there are hidden properties in Siebel Tools. This post will share how to make these properties available. In your Tools.cfg file set this value: ClientConfigurationMode = All The complete list of object types can be found here. Some of the more interesting object types include: Applet | […]

How To Install Siebel Tools In A Working Environment

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 […]