siebel: Configuration

Most people want security in this world. So whatever piece you design, Authentication becomes the key aspect. There are times when you want to authenticate whether the user-in-context is valid siebel user or not without actually logging into the system. This type of requirement is typical in Mobile Solutions using HTML5 and siebel webservices.

Here I unearth one more hidden gem of siebel, "Authentication Business Service". This magical service authenticates user against siebel irrespective of your security authentication mechanism. Be it database or LDAP it will return you valid siebel user name else invalid user/password error.The method is "Authenticate". It accepts three input parameters:

1 - User Name - User Name to be authenticated in siebel
2 - Password - Password of the user
3 - GetPrivateCredentials - Y OR N based on the requirement. If set to Y it will result user name in "Siebel User Name" output parameter.

One can see its usage in "LS Medical User Verification" workflow to get better feel of it. You can create web service based on this BS and can rest assured of your authentication approach. Hope it helps.

Happy Authentication!!

Necessity is mother of taking chances. In recent outrage by our business users, we were asked to provide option of selecting multiple file attachments. Unfortunately siebel doesn't provide option of creating multiple attachment in one go. Even drag and drop in High interactivity creates only one attachment. With Open UI there are options but with good old HI and SI mode this can be real tricky. However, With mix of HTML-Javascript-browserscript we were able to achieve a custom built html file with multiple file browse options. where user could select three files in one go.

Below custom file browse HTML was used . Name is as "MultiFileAttach.htm".

<html><head><script language=JavaScript>function returnFilePath() { 	var filectrl1 = document.getElementById("file1"); 	var filectrl2 = document.getElementById("file2"); 	var filectrl3 = document.getElementById("file3"); 	window.returnValue = filectrl1.value + ","+ filectrl2.value+ "," + filectrl3.value   } </Script></HEAD><body onunload=returnFilePath();><form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="form1" id="form1"><label>File1<input type="file" id="file1" /></label><br/><label>File2<input type="file" id="file2" /></label><br/><label>File3<input type="file" id="file3" /></label><br/><br/><input type="button" onclick="javascript:window.close();" value="Submit"></FORM></BODY></HTML>

Once the HTML page is ready, copy it in Siebel\Client\PUBLIC\Enu and \siebsrvr\WEBMASTER\enu folders. I was not able to use Multiple attribute for file input type (food for thought for Javascript masters) so was forced to use three different file controls. The key here is returnValue property which returns the "," separated file paths, which we use in our browser script to parse and create attachments in siebel file system.Below is the browser side code.

switch(name) { 	case "AttachmentTest": 		var sFullPath = theApplication().ShowModalDialog ("MultiFileAttach.htm", "", "dialogHeight:150px;dialogWidth:350px;dialogLeft:150px"); 		var sFileArr =      sFullPath.split(","); 		for(i=0; i<sFileArr.length;i++) 		{ 			var sFilePath = sFileArr[i]; 			if(sFilePath.length > 0) 			{ 				//alert("In Loop" + sFilePath); 				var sBS = theApplication().GetService("FINS Industry BC Facility Service"); 				var sInputs = theApplication().NewPropertySet(); 				var sOutputs = theApplication().NewPropertySet(); 				sInputs.SetProperty("BusObjName","HLS Case"); 				sInputs.SetProperty("FileBusCompName","HLS Cases Attachment"); 				sInputs.SetProperty("RootBusCompName","HLS Case"); 				sInputs.SetProperty("RowId","2L-8D"); //Change the RowId accordingly  				sInputs.SetProperty("SourcePath",sFilePath); 				sInputs.SetProperty("FileNameField","HLSFileName"); 				sBS.InvokeMethod("CreateFile",sInputs,sOutputs); 			}               		}                                               		this.InvokeMethod("RefreshBusComp"); 		return ("CancelOperation"); 		break; 	default: 		return ("ContinueOperation"); 		break;  }

We are invoking the custom "MultipleFileAttach.html" using ShowModalDialog method. Once we capture the path of attachments, "FINS Industry BC Facility Service" is used to create the attachments. In order to use this BS on browser side one must define this as part of user property on Application Level. One on Open UI can sleep well as there are lot of plugins available for Multiple File uploads. Java punters can propose alternate solutions to this approach, as usual your comments/inputs/suggestions are most welcome.

Happy Crunching!!

Warning: This piece is for demo purpose. Please test this solution thoroughly before you implement in your production systems.

siebel

יום חמישי, 12 בדצמבר 2013

Authentication Business Service

יום שלישי, 3 בספטמבר 2013

Multiple File Attachments

יום שישי, 2 באוגוסט 2013

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