In order to understand business objects and links and how these object types support relationships between business components, we can investigate views in a Siebel application using the About View option in the Help menu.

For example, we can navigate to the Contacts Screen and drill down on a contact's last name to open the Contact Detail View, which shows all activities associated to the selected person.

We then select the About View command in the Help menu of the Siebel application to open a dialog similar to the following screenshot:

Besides the technical names of the screen (Contacts Screen) and view (Contact Detail View) that is currently open, the dialog also conveys to us the name of the business object referenced by the view (Contact). The applet list uses indexes, in square brackets, allowing us to easily identify which business component is referenced by what applet. In the previous example, the Contact Form Applet references the Contact...