This chapter assumes that you have successfully installed your Siebel product and have completed the tasks in Initial Setup.

The tasks described in this chapter set up defaults that are used throughout your Siebel application. For some implementations, the default settings provided through the seed data meet a company's needs without customization. In other cases, administrators find it useful to make adjustments to these defaults.

This chapter includes the following topics:

• Setting System Preferences
• Setting Up Predefined Queries
• Enabling Cancel Query
• Setting Up Currencies
• Setting Up Currency Conversion
• Setting Up Expense Types
• Setting Up Payment Terms
• Setting Up Periods
• Specifying Telephone Formats
• Setting Up Pager Companies
• About Date Formats
• Setting Up ZIP Codes
• Administering Global Time Zone Support
• Setting Up Email, Fax, and Mail Accounts (Contact Us)
• Setting Up Industries
• Setting Up Languages
• About Case Sensitivity
• Enabling Application-Wide Case Insensitivity
• Enabling AOM Case Insensitivity
• Enabling Field-Specific Case Insensitivity
• Adding Web Browser Capabilities
• Adding Additional Web Browsers
• Administering Quick Fill Templates
• Setting Up Default View Links for Screen Home Pages