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Creating SearchSpecs in Siebel

Not too sure if you ever faced it, but at one time I found it really difficult to build siebel searchspecs. I had to copy already built searchspecs and manipulate it to cater to my needs.. :). However recently I figured out it's not that difficult to build these specs. In general if you are not using a process property (in a workflow) or a function (like LookupValue) searchspec is pretty straight forward. The below is an example. '[Status]='"In Progress"' (In progress within double quotes and the whole statement within single quotes, the vice versa is also okay, but make sure you use one particular quotes within the statement) If you need two fields in the searchspec and it will look like below: '[Status]="In Progress" and [Type]="Administrative"' and so on and so forth. Simple right. Now comes the little difficult part, when you have a process property or a function, e.g. '[Status]="In Progress" and [Type]="...