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
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...