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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

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Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Oracle Siebel CRM 8 Developer's Handbook
Credits
About the Author
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Preface

Understanding pick lists


Siebel CRM supports two types of pick lists—static and dynamic. The preconfigured applications are replete with examples for both types. In the following, we will use the Opportunity entity as an example to examine static and dynamic pick lists.

Static pick lists

A static pick list is rendered in the user interface (UI) as a simple one column drop-down box. The following screenshot shows the Lead Quality pick list in the More Info form applet for opportunities:

Static pick lists like the previous one are typically bounded, that means that end users are only allowed to enter values provided by the drop-down list. An unbounded pick list allows the end user to enter values which are not displayed in the pick list. The Probability field of an opportunity is an example for an unbounded pick list in preconfigured Siebel CRM applications.

On the business component level, we find that each field that exposes the behavior described previously has the following characteristics...