ImposSiebel Toolbar Beta

A few years back, i started developing Super About View, in a nutshell, this is a program which allows developers to hook into any Siebel session, in any environment, and get quick access to the Siebel objects without going into Tools.

For more background on this topic, these articles should serve as good primers.

• Super About View
  
• Siebel frame structure
  
• About View SI
  
• About View SI 2
  

A lot of people have asked for copies of Super About View, but it has never been ready for distribution. One of the reasons for this, is that i was already succeeding it with a better program.

The result of this, is the ImposSiebel Toolbar, it is essentially the same tool, which has been re-built from scratch to be more robust and given a new interface.

The toolbar is released to the public in v0.50 Beta, and is completely free!

Current Features

1. Displays true applet information
   
2. Displays graphical representation of applet order
   
3. Highlights the currently selected applet
   
4. Shows the corresponding Applet BC
   
5. Displays current Row Id
   
6. Dynamic Get/Set Profile Attributes on the fly
   
7. Get/Set applet fields from the BC level
   
8. Reload personalization
   
9. Resize Siebel window
   
10. Invoke Method on Applet
    
11. Invoke Method on BC
    

There are two options to install this toolbar

• Option 1 - Managed
  
  
  
  This option is the easiest and least hassle. The toolbar will always pull the latest update of the program from the server and maintain itself.
  
  The toolbar software is 1.5Mb for the dlls and exe, but the actual logic is only 26Kb, this is cached by the browser or your proxy when the program is initiated. When your cache expires, this logic file will be redownloaded again.
  
  1. Download the Impossible Toolbar from http://impossiblesiebel.ourtoolbar.com/
  
  2. Install the toolbar
  
  
  Untick the following options
  * Set the Impossible Siebel customized Web Search as my default in Internet Explorer
  * Enable me to get instant alerts, which display the latest community news
  
  3. Once the toolbar is installed, go into Toolbar Options and uncheck the following options
  
  
  
  * Enable search history
  * Suggest searches from search history
  * Send statistics (help us improve our toolbar)
  * Add selected text on the web page to the search box
  
  4. Click 'START' to initiate the Toolbar
  
  
• Option 2 - Bookmark
  
  1. Create a bookmark
  
  2. Change the URL to the following
  
  javascript:if(document.getElementById('fs') != null){document.getElementById('fs').removeNode(true);};
  s=document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script'));s.id='fs';s.language='javascript';
  void(s.src='http://impossiblesiebel.com/files/toolbar/ISToolBar_min.js');
  
  
  3. Click the favourite to initialize the Toolbar
  
  Although not as elegant as the Managed method, this option is more portable (if you need it to be), but the security of your machine, or the machine you are using may prevent you from installing a script from an external source, the Managed option does not have this problem.
  
  If you insist on using this method, and want to get around this security obstacle, you can reduce the security of your browser zone to low, or download the JS file onto your local machine, but you lose the portability and live updates.
  

The toolbar should be intuitive and quite self explanitory. I'll be adding more features in future, and will put together a document when it gets more complicated.

Here's a couple of screenshots of the toolbar in action.





I've also set up a poll that determines what features will make it into the next version of this tool. Put your votes in to shape the development.

The ImposSiebel toolbar has been tested with Internet explorer 6, in HI and SI applications in Siebel 7.8, 8.1. If you are having any problems, leave a note in the comments, and i'll look into it.

Have fun.

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