Poll Result and Analysis

Results of the Poll Future of Siebel are out officially. @lex has collated and presented the analysis at this link. You can also catch up with the official press release here. The results have not taken many by storm but yet gave oxygen to the faith that there is no reason to panic and give up on Siebel. In the ever changing market dynamics, Siebel will continue to emerge with its architecture evolving and adapting to market needs.

With "Open UI" striking and more customers embracing it, its time to explore some Java skills. It also marks centuries of post on CRM Conundrum. Thanks to all readers/followers for making it success. Sooner or Later even you will be reading on piece of Open UI here till then stay tuned.

Happy Voting!!

UIF Calendar Control in MVG Applet

Recently while working on multilingual application we faced strange issue. While setting values in MVG applet with calendar control, any date value was getting appended with UIF_ string. As a result invalid format error was coming. Eagle-eye pursuit resulted in the fact that even on the calendar control the month was like "UIF_May". To our surprise this issue was not happening on all machines. It was occurring only in some of the user machines with specific configuration. On discussion with Oracle it is found to be product defect.
                                                           

With configuration of Windows 7 and IE 8, it happens in ARA/ENU/FRA implementations. In order to resolve the issue IE 8 must be updated to latest patches from Microsoft or as an alternate solution could be:

1. In the Internet Explorer browser, go to Tools > Compatibility view setting > Uncheck all the options.
2. Press F12 and set the Browser Mode value to IE8.

This will resolve the issue for while.  

Happy Crunching!!