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Oracle Siebel CRM 8 Developer's Handbook

By : Alexander Hansal
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Oracle Siebel CRM 8 Developer's Handbook

By: Alexander Hansal

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Oracle Siebel CRM 8 Developer's Handbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Automating developer tasks using command line options


The following tasks can be automated by running the Siebel Tools executable (siebdev.exe) and other utilities on the command line:

  • Validate the entire repository

  • Compile the entire repository

  • Compare two SRF files

  • Import from and export to archive (.sif) files

  • Convert custom labels to symbolic strings

  • Export object definitions for Application Deployment Manager (ADM)

To run a validation for the entire repository, a quite lengthy process, we have to invoke the Siebel Tools executable (siebdev.exe) from the command line similar to the following example:

C:\SIA8\Tools\BIN\siebdev.exe /d Local /u AHANSAL /p tzU87tr /bv

The /d switch specifies the data source while the /u and /p switches provide the username and password for that data source. Apart from these switches, the /bv (batch validation) switch will launch the validation utility automatically after Siebel Tools is started.

To compile the entire repository, also called a Full Compile, we use...