Applications Administration Guide >

What's New in This Release


What's New in Applications Administration Guide, Version 7.8, Rev. A

Table 1 lists changes in this version of the documentation to support Release 7.8 of the software.

Table 1. What's New in Applications Administration Guide, Version 7.8, Rev. A
Topic
Description

New features described

System Preferences

The descriptions of system preferences are updated to support software Release 7.8.

Designing iHelp

The anchor tag can be used to add external links to iHelp captions.

Improvements to the documentation

Enabling AOM Case Insensitivity

Case sensitivity can be set on the Application Object Manager and server component levels.

Clearing the Cache

LOV caching behaves slightly differently on screen home pages than on other views.

Creating iHelp Item Records

In order to open iHelp, users need access to the Task Assistant Player View.

About Message Broadcasting

Message Broadcasting is only available for employee applications.

Creating Inbox Types

Corrected an error in the action type example, UINBOX_STATUS_TYPE.

Setting Up Inbox Actions

Listed the arguments that are always passed with actions.

Examples of Inbox Triggers

Three sample workflows that illustrate the use of workflows with the Inbox are provided with the Sample Database and are described in this guide.

Showing or Hiding Side Applets on the Life Sciences Calendar

User property for hiding the side applet on Siebel Life Sciences calendar.

Enabling Application of Target Lists on an Applet

Configuring association list applets so that target lists can be applied to them.

What's New in Applications Administration Guide, Version 7.8

Table 2 lists changes in version 7.8 of the documentation to support Release 7.8 of the software.

Table 2. What's New in Applications Administration Guide, Version 7.8
Topic
Description

New features described

See Audit Trail

Removed references to file auditing.

See Calendar

New user properties for configuring these calendar features:

  • Specify color
  • Specify the day summary tooltip template
  • Make calendar read-only
  • Show/Hide daily, weekly, monthly tabs
  • Change the date display format
  • Change the first day of the week

See Ongoing Application Administration Tasks

Added description of the CancelQueryTimeOut parameter, which allows users to stop their slow or incorrect queries.

Improvements to the documentation

See Creating State Models and State Transitions

MLOV (multilingual lists of values) fields are supported with state models.

Using Keyboard Accelerators

The topic about setting up keyboard accelerators has been deleted from the book.

To clear the cache (from the Server Manager command-line interface)

See Clearing the Cache.

The procedure for clearing the cache from the Server Manager command-line interface has been deleted from the book because it obsolete in Release 7.7 of the software.

Chapters moved from the Applications Administration Guide, and into the Siebel Correspondence, Proposals, and Presentations Guide and Siebel Content Publishing Guide.

These chapters were moved to the Siebel Correspondence, Proposals, and Presentations Guide:

  • Document Server
  • Correspondence
  • Proposals
  • Presentations
  • Fulfillment Centers
  • Batch Printing

These chapters were moved to the Siebel Content Publishing Guide:

  • Content Center
  • Content Asset Management
  • Microsite Management
  • Usage Collection
  • Content Center Reference
Applications Administration Guide