Under certain circumstances, developers not only modify object definitions in the Siebel Repository but also create or modify administrative data such as List of Values or EAI Data Maps. This type of data resides outside of the repository tables and is therefore not within the scope of the tools and utilities discussed so far in this chapter.

With the ADM, introduced with Siebel Version 7.7, the Siebel application framework provides a simple and extensible technique to export and import administrative data. ADM uses basic Siebel EAI technology such as integration objects, EAI Siebel Adapter, and workflow processes. It must be noted here that, for some prominent object types, it is also possible to use native export and import features. For example, EAI Data Maps or iHelp items can be exported and imported as XML files by using the respective menu commands on the administrative views for these objects.

The following procedure uses List of Values data...