Javascript trick to quickly navigate views.

Siebel’s hierarchical way of organizing views under sitemap is a useful feature, everything is arranged under screens as per context. But sometimes the only way to access a certain view is to go via the sitemap, and specially for administrators, this means sifting through pages of links to find the correct view. Being an Seibel EAI integration developer, I find myself frequently visiting three main views in Siebel application, on my local as well as the thin client. Most of my work can be done on tools, but Datamapper Administration View, Workflow process instance and webservice administration views are my mostly visited views.  Inorder to make navigation easier, I used to create bookmarks in the browser using the GotoView command to quickly take me to a view.

 

 

But this meant and different set of bookmarks for local client, and a different set for every server/environment. So I ended up using javascript to do the navigation for me.

 

Create a bookmark in your internet explorer, then enter the text below for Business Service Simulator view

 

javascript:var url = new String(window.location);var p = url.substring(url.search('start.swe?') ,url.length);p=p + 'start.swe?SWECmd=GotoView&SWEView=Business Service Test View' ;window.location(p);

 

Once you have logged into your siebel application (local/server), just select this bookmark , and you should be taken to that view.

 

Here is the bookmark for Datamapper Adminstration View

 

javascript:var url = new String(window.location);var p = url.substring(url.search('start.swe?') ,url.length);p=p + 'start.swe?SWECmd=GotoView&SWEView=EAI DTE Data Map Editor' ;window.location(p);

 

 

Code junkies can edit the code and add any view wanted.