Automate Siebel Dedicated Clients and Tools - Episode 2

So, yesterday we talked about files we need to automate Siebel Dedicated Clients and Siebel Tools, if you have more than one development environment and you use both.

Today I will tell you what to do with those files. So we will start from bottom of yesterday’s list.

So first you need to 4 srf. files:

1)      siebel_dev1 - this will be the repository file for DEV1 environment your Siebel Dedicated Client will use and you will compile your changes to this file. I think it is self explanatory, so no need to go in to file itself;

2)      siebel_dev2 - this will be the repository file for DEV2 environment your Siebel Dedicated Client will use. Because you will have locally only DEV1 database, you will not be enabled to use Siebel Tools for DEV2 so you can't compile your DEV2 changes, but still you can use this srf. and connect to DEV2 server database;

3)      tools_dev1 - this will be the repository file for DEV1 environment your Siebel Tools will use;

4)      tools_dev2 - this will be the repository file for DEV2 environment your Siebel Tools will use, but because you don't have database for DEV2 you can't use DEV2 Siebel Tools.

So next is 8 cfg. files for every shortcut, I assume that you know how cfg. are working and that data sources are already entered in cfg. files for both environments:

1)      siebel_dev1_user - will use DEV1ServerClient_user shortcut to log in to DEV1 Siebel Dedicated Client with local srf. and server database and with user credentials, so modify file [Siebel] section:

a)      ApplicationTitle = Local siebel_dev1.srf and DEV1 Server DB and user

b)      ApplicationSplashText = Local siebel_dev1.srf and DEV1 Server DB and user

c)      RepositoryFile = way to \ siebel_dev1.srf

2)      siebel_dev1_sadmin - will use DEV1ServerClient_sadmin shortcut to log in to DEV1 Siebel Dedicated Client with local srf. and server database and with sadmin credentials, so modify file [Siebel] section:

a)      ApplicationTitle = Local siebel_dev1.srf and DEV1 Server DB and sadmin

b)      ApplicationSplashText = Local siebel_dev1.srf and DEV1 Server DB and sadmin

c)      RepositoryFile = way to \ siebel_dev1.srf

3)      tools_dev1_local - will use DEV1LocalTools shortcut to log in to DEV1 local Siebel Tools and with user credentials, so modify file [Siebel] section:

a)      ApplicationTitle = Local DEV1

b)      ApplicationSplashText = Local DEV1

c)      RepositoryFile = way to \ tools_dev1.srf

4)      tools_dev1_server - will use DEV1ServerTools shortcut to log in to DEV1 server Siebel Tools and with user credentials, so modify file [Siebel] section:

a)      ApplicationTitle = Server DEV1

b)      ApplicationSplashText = Server DEV1

c)      RepositoryFile = way to \ tools_dev1.srf

Tomorrow I will tell about DEV2 cfg. files.