Step 1: Specify the WebClient path where you want to apply patch, then browse the path and click next. If you like to get updates from Oracle support web or want to be informed of any security issue, then provide your email id in the next window. If not, just keep it blank. Click on ‘Install’ button and go to Step 2.
Step 2: Once you click on the install button, wizard will start installation automatically. During installation, oracle creates a log file for the same.You can find it under the path Oracle InventorylogsinstallActions*.log.
Step 3: Once the patch is installed successfully, wizard will be auto closed. Now open your installed Siebel Tools folder location and locate the new folder called ‘REPATCH’. Inside that folder, you can see many folders with various options. As we are applying patch 8.1.1.10, unzip the zip file OpenUI_Base_81110.
Inside the unzip folder, there will be one file called ‘Read me.txt’. You can refer this file for remaining steps to complete the process. Otherwise perform below steps to run your application on Siebel Open UI mode.
Our next target is, import all open ui related sif files into siebel repository. There is one Siebel provided bat file import.bat which will import all sif files using the file preference.txt. If you want to import individual package one by one, then go to the specific package folder and follow steps given in readme.txt file. As we want to import all files, use the main import.bat file under the folder Tools_1REPPATCHOpenUI_Base_81110OpenUI_Base_81110.
Step 4: There are few optional steps before starting import like backup of Siebel database, create new ODBC connection. For safer side, we will make a copy of our database. Also if you want, change the symbolic string prefix. To change it, open tools.cfg file and locate the parameter SymStrPrefix. You can put any string in the place of X_. Oracle suggests to give SBL_ in the place of X_ so that we can get to know what all objects have been imported after applying open ui patch.
Step 5: Now if you want to import sif files related to Oracle BIP Reports, create a new project other wise no need to create any project, just lock below projects before importing files.
Reports – OpenUI,
Communication Administration,
XMLP Integration,
Symbolic Strings,
eCalendar,
Locale,
User Preferences,
Siebel Universal Agent,
FINS eBanking Email Activities,
Activity,
Shift,
Table Locale,
SWE,
Query Assistant,
Menu,
eApp,
Common Components,
Message Broadcasting.
Table Sales
Step 6: Open language.txt file under the path Tools_1REPPATCHOpenUI_Base_81110OpenUI_Base_81110 and ensure that your preferred language code is present in that file.
Below language codes are supported by Open UI:
ARA – Arabic
CHS – Chinese(Simplified)
CHT – Chinese(Traditional)
CSY – Czech
DAN – Danish
NLD – Dutch
ENU – English
FIN – Finnish
FRA – French
DEU – German
HEB – Hebrew
ITA – Italian
JPN – Japanese
KOR – Korean
PLK – Polish
PTB – Portuguese(Brazilian)
PTG – Portuguese(European)
RUS – Russian
ESN – Spanish
SVE – Swedish
THA – Thai
TRK – Turkish
Step 7: Now we will configure the file preference.txt which provides the parameter details to import.bat. This step is optional, if you keep any parameter blank and click on import.bat file, then it will ask for parameter values on run time. We would suggest to populate preference.txt file properly first with all parameter values and then click on the import.bat file. Below are the parameters what all we need to populate.
REPOTOOLSBIN=<Full path of siebdev.exe, e.g. C:siebeltoolsbin>
REPODATASOURCE=<Data Source entry from tools.cfg, where to import the objects into>
REPOUSERNAME=<User Name>
REPOPASSWORD=<Password>
DBTYPE=<ORACLE/MSSQL/DB2UDB>
DDLPATH=<path that contains ddldict.exe and ddlimp.exe>
SIEBUSER=<Siebel Username>
SIEBPW=<Siebel Password>
ODBCDATASOURCE=< the name of the ODBC data source)
TBLO=<Table Owner>
TBLOUSER=<Table Owner User> (only needed for MSSQL)
TBLOPW=<Table Owner Password>
In our case it looks like,
REPOTOOLSBIN=D:Siebel8.1Tools_1BINsiebdev.exe
REPODATASOURCE=TEST_LOCAL
REPOUSERNAME=SADMIN
REPOPASSWORD=SADMIN
DBTYPE=ORACLE
DDLPATH=D:Siebel8.1Tools_1BIN
SIEBUSER=SADMIN
SIEBPW=SADMIN
ODBCDATASOURCE=TEST_LOCAL
TBLO=SIEBEL
TBLOPW=SIEBEL
TBLOUSER=
Once you are done with the file setup, click on the import.bat file. If there is anything wrong in parameter setting, Siebel will throw error. Fix those and run it once again. After clicking on the import.bat file, it will ask you ‘Start import (y/n)?’. Choose option ‘y’ and press enter, then select option 1 to import all.
Step 8: Once the process is completed, do a full compile to get a new srf. Put the srf in Webclientobjects folder. Now open any client cfg file (like uagent.cfg, sales.cfg) and add below parameters under the section ‘InfraUIFramework’.
HighInteractivity = TRUE
EnableOpenUI = TRUE
That’s all. If you want, you can change the symbolic string prefix parameter(SymStrPrefix) value back to x_ in tools.cfg .Now our Siebel Open UI application is ready, clear browser cache and open Siebel Open UI application. If IE is your default browser but want to open it in other browser like Firefox or Google Chrome, then perform few more additional steps. Here we will tell you, how you can open the application in Firefox. Same is applicable for other browsers as well.
- Right click on the ‘Siebel Client’ icon and click on properties.
- In Target tab, at the end of the given string, add firefox.exe file path (/b “C:Program Files MozillaFirefoxfirefox.exe “)
- Click on ‘Apply’ and ‘Ok’
Now your siebel open ui application will open in Firefox browser.If you face any challenge during applying Siebel Open UI patch, feel free to ask us. To get more updates, follow ‘TechOneStop‘ on Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn or add yourself as follower.
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