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Upgrade Guide > Siebel Database and UI Upgrade Planning > Upgrade Planning for Siebel Web Template Files and Style SheetUpgrades: All Siebel upgrades. Environments: Development, production test, production. Web template files help define the layout and formatting of the user interface, such as views, applets, and controls. The Siebel Web Engine in the Siebel Server uses the Web template files to build Web pages, which it then forwards to the Web Server. A Web template file contains regular HTML, WML, or XML tags interspersed with Siebel tags. Siebel tags are prefixed by "swe" and contain placeholders for UI objects such as controls and data. HTML formatting tags are defined in a cascading style sheet (main.css). When you install a new release of the Siebel Server or Siebel Tools, you receive a new set of Web template files and a new style sheet file. The upgrade process does not use your existing files. If you have manually customized your Web template files or style sheet file, you must evaluate whether to reimplement these customizations in the new Web template files and style sheet file. Observe the following planning guidelines for reimplementing customizations:
After customizations have been completed, the Web template files and style sheet file must be copied to the Siebel Servers in the environment. The files must also be included in upgrade kits sent to remote sites. Web template files have an The style sheet file is located as follows in the installation directory of Siebel Tools and the Siebel Server (Windows path syntax): Siebel Tools: Siebel Server: where lang is the installation language, for example The steps for reimplementing customizations to these files and copying them to new environments are included in the upgrade process topics in How to Perform a Siebel Database Upgrade. For information on how Web template files and style sheet file work, see Configuring Siebel Business Applications guide. |
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