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Oracle Siebel CRM 8 Developer's Handbook

By : Alexander Hansal
Book Image

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
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Creating and modifying views


Siebel Tools provides developers with the New View wizard to quickly create views. The View Editor allows us to inspect and modify existing views. We will use both utilities in the following section. The high level process of creating a new view can be laid out as follows:

  • Create the view using the New View wizard

  • Arrange the applets on the view layout as needed

  • Set the applet mode property as needed

  • Set the thread bar properties

  • Add the view to a screen

  • Compile all new and modified repository objects

  • Register the view in the web client

  • Associate the view with one or more responsibilities

  • Test the view

Case study example: Ceating a new view

In Chapter 5, we introduced the requirements around the new AHA Customer Process Start View and created a form and a list applet to be placed in that view. The basic view layout has been designed by the business analyst team as shown in the following diagram:

As we have only created two applets so far, we will use preconfigured applets...