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Customizing Siebel Events Home Page Applets

The Events Web portal contains navigational applets on the home page that are designed to simplify user navigation. Some of these navigational applets are not based on business component data, instead Siebel administrators or developers use Siebel Tools to customize the applets. The applets are as follows:

• Customizing the My Events Applet
• Customizing the Browse Events Applet
• Customizing the Upcoming Events Applet

Customizing the My Events Applet

The My Events Applet, as shown in Figure 6, provides links to views where users can register for events, view event invitations, or view events they have already registered for.

Figure 6. My Events Applet Example

Each link and corresponding bitmap is represented by a control object on the applet. To create or modify a new control, Siebel administrators or developers should perform the following procedure.

To create or modify new controls on an applet

1. Using Siebel Tools create a link by setting the HTML Type property of the control to "Link" and then set the Method Invoked property to "GotoView".
2. To specify the destination view, create a Control User Property with Name = "View" and Value = "Destination View Name".

   Each image is specified in the Control's HTML Bitmap property, which refers to a Bitmap Category Item. The layout of the applet is defined by the Applet Web Template.

For more information about working with applets, views, drilldowns, bitmaps, and Web templates, see Configuring Siebel Business Applications, Using Siebel Tools, and Siebel Object Interfaces Reference.

Customizing the Browse Events Applet

The Browse Events Applet, as shown in Figure 7, provides links to views where end-users can browse a list of events or session or query for a specific event or session.

Figure 7. Browse Events Applet Example

The Browse Events Applet is built on the same structure, that is with link and image controls, as the My Events Applet. For more information, see the to create or modify new controls on an applet procedure in the Customizing the My Events Applet section.

Customizing the Upcoming Events Applet

The Upcoming Events Applet, as shown in Figure 8, is based on the eEvents Event business component. This applet displays links to the event detail view.

Figure 8. Upcoming Events Applet Example

The applet displays a link for each of the next five events where Status = "Launched," Start Date > current date, Event Type is not Restricted, and Display on Website= "Y". The applet is a special type of a list applet, whose Web template displays a bulleted list for each record. A drilldown object on the applet specifies that the Name field should have a context-sensitive link to an event detail view.

For more information about working with applets, views, drilldowns, bitmaps, and Web templates, see Configuring Siebel Business Applications, Using Siebel Tools, and Siebel Object Interfaces Reference.