Importing Products using EIM

Importing Products using EIM:

· When the Products are imported using EIM they are imported into the S_PROD_INT table.

· These Products will be visible only on the “Administration – Products” screen and not in the “Products” screen.

· In order to make these products visible in the “Products” screen these Products records must have an association on the S_VOD and S_VOD_VER Table.

· Products imported through EIM are not directly associated to the S_VOD and S_VOD_VER tables since there is no EIM Counterpart defined.

Some theory (Oracle Support Web)

Doc ID 485530.1

The below query is a modified spool generated after querying on the “Products” applet on ‘Internal Products List view’.

SELECT

T1.NAME as Product

,T1.CFG_MODEL_ID

,T2.ROW_ID as 'S_VOD ROW_ID'

,T2.OBJECT_NUM

,T3.VOD_ID as 'S_ISS_OBJ_DEF VOD_ID'

,T3.PAR_VOD_ID as 'S_ISS_OBJ_DEF PAR_VOD_ID'

,T13.VOD_ID as 'S_VOD_VER VOD_ID'

,T13.RELEASED_FLG

FROM

dbo.S_PROD_INT T1

LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.S_VOD T2 ON T1.CFG_MODEL_ID = T2.OBJECT_NUM

LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.S_ISS_OBJ_DEF T3 ON T2.ROW_ID = T3.VOD_ID AND T3.LAST_VERS is not null

LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.S_VOD T4 ON T3.PAR_VOD_ID = T4.OBJECT_NUM AND T4.VOD_TYPE_CD = 'ISS_CLASS_DEF'

LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.S_VOD_VER T13 ON T2.ROW_ID = T13.VOD_ID AND T13.RELEASED_FLG = 'Y'

Result

· As you ca see in the above picture the Product ‘RG Product’ has RELEASED_FLG as NULL, this Product was created from the UI “Administration – Products” screen.

· Any Product created from the screen has to be released by that owner of the product, this can be done by clicking the “Release” button on the “Administration – Products” screen.(Usually Products information is added only by company administrators)

· Currently I am logged in as ‘SADMIN’ .You can see that the Release button is not active.

· When logged in with ‘GRYAN’ only then will the Release button be enabled.(as below)

· Once the Lock has been released an association is created on the S_VOD_VER table and the RELEASE_FLG is updated to ‘Y’.

Queries to check associations on the Siebel Data base:

1) Query to get all Products that are associated/ not associated to the S_VOD table.

select T1.NAME , T1.CFG_MODEL_ID, T2.OBJECT_NUM from S_PROD_INT T1

LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.S_VOD T2 ON T1.CFG_MODEL_ID = T2.OBJECT_NUM

Result

For records that are not associated to the S_VOD table will have CFG_MODEL_ID and OBJECT_NUM as NULL

1) Query to get only those Products that are associated to the S_VOD table.

select T1.NAME , T1.CFG_MODEL_ID, T2.OBJECT_NUM from S_PROD_INT T1

LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.S_VOD T2 ON T1.CFG_MODEL_ID = T2.OBJECT_NUM

where OBJECT_NUM is not null

After Importing Products using EIM:

· After Products are successfully imported using EIM the next step is to execute the Business Service

“ISS Authoring Import Export Service”, “Post_EIM_Upgrade” Method.

· You can execute the Business service using the Administration – Business Serviceà Simulator in the Site Map.

· Enter the following Input Arguments.

· Click the Run button.

· All the Products that had a broken association or no association with the S_VOD or S_VOD_VER table will not be associated.

· You can now see that all the Imported Products will be available on the “ProductsàInternal Products” screen.

· You can execute the above SQL’s to check the association made on the S_VOD and S_VOD_VER tables

- Have a nice day