Posts Tagged ‘Siebel’

In Siebel IP2016, the Sybase database was replaced with Oracle’s own XE database. The switch has presented some advantages and some drawbacks. One of the advantages is that you can have multiple instances. In my case, I have one instance for each IP2016 project that I am working on. This is the blog that I […]

Now that April is here, I thought it would be neat to look back at what our readers found most interesting last month. Below are the top five blog posts Perficient’s life sciences practice wrote in March – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. Collaboration In Pharma Is Surging […]

A new utility was provided with Siebel version 16.0 (i.e., IP2016) that is quite useful. OracleXEConfig allows you, as a developer, to have multiple Oracle XE instances on your computer and enables you to quickly switch to one that is active. It also allows you to create empty local databases. This is extremely useful if […]

I recently started working on a project where I am using Siebel IP2016. IP2016 uses Oracle XE for local development and requires a lot of free disk space to create and initialize the local database. I use Oracle’s excellent (and free!) VirtualBox version 5.2.8. The specific virtual machine that I was using was a Windows […]

By default, Siebel out-of-the-box does not allow you to change the Primary Flag in MVG applets. This includes Clinical Site, Accounts, Protocols, etc. Here is an example: On the Site Management screen, press the icon for the Team MVG: This opens the Pick Team MVG Applet. Note that the Primary Flag field is read-only. Now, […]

Now that February is here, I thought it would be neat to look back at what our readers found most interesting last month. Below are the top five blog posts Perficient’s life sciences practice wrote in January – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. [Guide] 2018 Pharmaceutical And Medical […]

Recently, a client running Siebel 8.1.1.4 had developed a complex report. If the report were run for a small-to-medium set of data (controlled by querying the data in the user interface (UI)), the report would complete successfully. However, if the report were run for the entire set of data, the report would fail after a […]

You know how you implemented that regulated IT system a few years ago, and it was all shiny and new, and then it went through a bunch of change controls and the validation documentation got kind of unwieldy, and now you’re kinda wishing you could start over with a clean slate, but without losing the […]

I have talked to many clients over the last month that are very interested in the new Siebel Innovation Pack 2017. There are new enhancement to Open UI functionality, Oracle continues to build on the mobile platform and vertical mobile applications, a new Open UI Test Automation suite has now been included, and many have […]

A common requirement in Siebel is to configure constrained picklists. First, let’s define what a constrained pick list means. A constrained picklist is a list of values (LOV), in which the values are dependent on another field. Say we have an applet that has two fields: medical type and medical product. These are the values […]

In Siebel, we often find ourselves creating new extension columns and reusing unused business component fields for different purposes. But, how do you manage a situation in which an existing field has been created with a column text length that is larger than what you want? Let us look at an example. In this scenario, […]

Toys“R”Us filed for bankruptcy recently in the wake of big online stores like Amazon stealing their business. It is not just Toys“R”Us. Many other brick-and-mortar stores are closing because of mega-online stores. This trend can also be found in the in the CRM software market. Per Gartner, statistics show one leader emerging above all: Salesforce. […]