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Integration Considerations

Enabling MLOVs does not affect just the Siebel eBusiness Applications client and the relevant target tables. Other features in your Siebel eBusiness Applications implementation must also consider this new configuration.

With Enterprise Integration Manager (EIM), you can import and export data. You can import data into both the list of values table and other tables in Siebel eBusiness Applications.

When importing data into the list of values table, the source table must have a language code and a name-value pair. This pair consists of the Display Value and the Language Independent Code.

When importing data into any other table, you must provide a language code for the /LANGUAGE command-line parameter for EIM. The source table must include the display value for multilingual columns in the language specified in the parameter. EIM validates imported data against list of values entries. The incoming data will be converted to associated language-independent codes during the import.

List of values entries that are marked inactive are ignored during the validation of multilingual LOV values during import by EIM.

When exporting data, you must specify a language code for the /LANGUAGE parameter, so that EIM can correctly translate the language-independent code in the table to the display value during the export.

For more information about command-line parameters for EIM, and information on EIM in general, see Siebel Enterprise Integration Manager Administration Guide.