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Migrating Outbound COM Interfaces

Upgrades: Release 6.2.1 only.

Environments: Development environment only.

This topic is part of an upgrade process. See How to Perform the Upgrade.

Client-side application integration in the Siebel Web Client can be accomplished by using two methods provided by Jscript.Net, Microsoft's implementation of the ECMA 262 language:

• ActiveXObject. Enables and returns a reference to an Automation object
• GetObject. Returns a reference to an Automation object from a file

For additional information on the ActiveXObject and GetObject functions, see the Microsoft Web site (http://www.microsoft.com) and the Jscript.Net documentation.

The following example illustrates using the ActiveXObject function to access properties and methods of Microsoft Excel, including the Application object and the ActiveSheet.

var ExcelApp;

var Sheet;

ExcelApp = new ActiveXObject("Excel.Application");

Sheet = new ActiveXObject("Excel.Sheet");

// Make Excel visible

Sheet.Application.Visible = true;

// Place some text in the first cell

Sheet.ActiveSheet.Cells(1,1).Value = "This is row 1 column A";

// Save the sheet.

Sheet.SaveAs("C:\\TEST.XLS");

// Close Excel and quit.

Sheet.Application.Quit();

In addition to the functions described above, you can use native functions provided by Siebel VB or Siebel eScript to handle client-side application integration:

• Siebel VB
  • CreateObject (to access a client-side automation object)
  • Declare (to access an external DLL)
• Siebel eScript
  • COMCreateObject (to access a client-side automation object)
  • SELib.DynamicLink (to access an external DLL)

For additional information on the Siebel VB and Siebel eScript functions listed above, see Siebel Tools Online Help.

For more information on migrating client-side interfaces, see About Migrating 6.2.1 Client-Side Interfaces.

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Migrating Inbound COM Interfaces