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Table 96 lists the system preferences provided throughout your Siebel applications. For information about how to change system preferences, see Ongoing Application Administration Tasks.

Table 96.  System Preferences
Preference
Description

AAG Cobrand Id

Obsolete.

AAG Cobrand Password

Obsolete.

AAG Connection

Obsolete.

AAG Lit

Obsolete.

AAG Update Interval

Obsolete.

AAG URL

Obsolete.

Activity Hierarchy: Max Levels

The maximum number of levels for the Activity Hierarchy.

ActivityStatusToCloseVisit

A visit activity cannot be closed unless all of its required child activities have a status value that matches one of the values in this system preference. (By default, an activity cannot be closed unless all required child activities have been done or canceled.)

Default: 'Done','Cancelled'

Alarm Manager Load Frequency

Number of minutes the system waits before rechecking for alarms.

Default: 60

AllowOverReceipts

If set to TRUE, the received quantity can be greater than the shipped quantity. Also, for an internal order, when the Process Receipt command is invoked, the pick ticket can be closed only when the received quantity is equal to or greater than the shipped quantity.

For more information about shipping and receiving, see Siebel Field Service Guide.

Always Show Message Bar Alerts

Obsolete.

AMS AMI Char Conversion

For AMS ACAPS integration: defines CharSetConversion for the EAI MQSeries AMI Transport business service, which communicates between the Siebel application and the ACAPS.

AMS AMI Policy Name

See Siebel Finance Guide.

AMS AMI Receiver Service Name

See Siebel Finance Guide.

AMS AMI Sender Service Name

See Siebel Finance Guide.

AMS RefData DB ODBC DataSource

For AMS ACAPS integration: defines the ODBC data source name for the AMS reference database.

AMS RefData DB Password

For AMS ACAPS integration: defines the password for the AMS reference database.

AMS RefData DB Table Owner

For AMS ACAPS integration: defines the table owner for the AMS reference database.

AMS RefData DB User Name

For AMS ACAPS integration: defines the user name for the AMS reference database.

Auto Mgr Calendar Access

Allow employee's manager access to the employee's calendar, even if the employee does not explicitly give the manager access.

NOTE:  If multiple employees share a position, only the calendar of the primary employee is accessible.

Default: True

Company Name

See Siebel Pharma Handheld Guide.

CSM Logging

Enables logging of merge transactions. Merge transactions are created when connected users combine or merge two or more business components such as accounts or opportunities into one.

Information from this log can be used to relink orphaned records created when the merge process is crossed with an update process during a synchronization.

This is only applicable if the installation uses Siebel Remote or Replication Manager.

Default: False

DB2: Default Opt Level

Default optimization level which defines the optimizing algorithm that DB2 will use to execute SQL statements.

DBX: Vis Rules per Statement 1

Number of visibility or routing rules checked per SQL statement processed by the Database Extract component for the first SQL statement with header information.

DBX: Vis Rules per Statement N

Number of visibility or routing rules checked per SQL statement processed by the Database Extract component for other SQL statements.

Default Campaign Source Code

Default campaign for Web offers used in Siebel eMarketing. All offers that are a part of the default campaign will appear in the Featured Offers applet in Siebel eMarketing.

Default EC Procedure

Obsolete.

Default MVG Exists Query

Siebel Industry Applications only: adds an EXISTS statement to every MVG field query. For more information, see Siebel Developer's Reference.

Default: TRUE

Default Offer Code

Code to track the click path of a customer on the eMarketing Web site who does not select a specific offer.

Default Pricing Procedure

Obsolete.

Default Time Zone

Default time zone for all users of that database.

When a user logs in, the Time Zone field of the User business component is checked. If it is empty, the Default Time Zone system preference is checked.

Default: UTC

Docking:Transaction Logging

Enables docking transaction logging.

For more information, see Siebel Remote and Replication Manager Administration Guide.

eAuc:AllowTimeStampAdvantage

Give an advantage to a bid based on when the bid was made.

Default: True

eAuc:AsyncNoticeCalls

Invoke notice workflows through asynchronous request manager. Default: False

eAuc:AuctionURLRoot

The URL placed in email messages for auction events.

Default: http://www.<yourDomain>.com

eAuc:AutoApproveBidder

Automatically approve a user's request to become a bidder.

Default: True

eAuc:AutoApproveLister

Automatically approve a user's request to become a lister.

Default: True

eAuc:AutobidToReservePrice

When a bid is placed, if it does not meet an auction's reserve price and the bid has an AutoBid amount, then automatically adjust the bid to come as close to or match the reserve price.

Default: False

eAuc:BidIncrementMultiple

A floating point number that determines the minimum monetary unit increment (or decrement) for bids.

Default: 0.01

eAuc:BidIncrMultipleTolerance

A floating point number between 0 and 0.005 which specifies the allowed deviation from an exact multiple of the eAuc:BidIncrementMultiple property. This provides accommodation for math rounding errors that could result if the BidIncrementMultiple is set to certain problematic number values (such as 0.17).

Default: 0.005

eAuc:BidTimeTieBreakOption

Preference specified as either 1, 2, or 3:

  • If 1, then users who have prior winning bids have their follow-up bids timestamped to the time of the prior winning bid.
  • If 2, then users who have placed any prior bid have their follow-up bids timestamped to the time of the prior bid.
  • If 3, new and replacement bids and AutoBids are timestamped when placed

Default: 1

eAuc:DynamicCloseEnabled

Allow extending an auction past its posted end time according to its dynamic close properties.

eAuc:DynamicCloseMaxDelay

The maximum number of minutes an auction's end time can be delayed because of dynamic close extensions. (Works in conjunction with eAuc:DynamicCloseEnabled set to True.)

Default: 60

eAuc:EnforceExactBidIncrement

Enforce bids to be exact multiples of an auction's bid increment (or decrement).

Default: True

eAuc:MaxMoneyValueAccepted

The maximum monetary value accepted for an auction's starting price, an auction's bid increment (or decrement), a bid, or a lister fee.

Default: 1000000000

eAuc:MaxRatingsPerSale

The number of times a user is allowed to rate another user per auction. This property applies to both bidders and listers.

Default:2

eAuc:MaxThirdPartyListingDays

The maximum number of days between a third-party auction's start and end times.

Default:14

eAuc:Notice Wf-Auction Alert

Name of workflow process used to notify user that an Auction Alert has triggered.

Default: eAuction Alert Notice

eAuc:Notice Wf-Autobid

Name of workflow process used to notify user that they have successfully registered to participate in auctions.

Default: eAuction Autobid Notice

eAuc:Notice Wf-Bid

Name of workflow process used to notify Bidder that they have placed an acceptable bid.

Default: eAuction Bid Notice

eAuc:Notice Wf-ListerBidAccept

Name of workflow process used to notify Lister that a Bid has been placed on one of their Items.

Default: eAuction Bid Accepted Notice

eAuc:Notice Wf-ListerClose

Name of workflow process used to notify Lister that their Auction has closed.

Default: eAuction Lister Close Notice

eAuc:Notice Wf-ListerInvoiced

Name of workflow process used to notify Lister that their Auction has been invoiced.

Default: eAuction Lister Invoiced Notice

eAuc:Notice Wf-Outbid

Name of workflow process used to notify Bidder that they have been outbid.

Default: eAuction Outbid Notice

eAuc:Notice Wf-PartialOutbid

Name of workflow process used to notify Bidder that they have been outbid on some number of items.

Default: eAuction Partially Outbid Notice

eAuc:Notice Wf-UserStatus

Name of workflow process used to notify User of their status.

Default: eAuction User Status Notice

eAuc:Notice Wf-UserWelcome

Name of workflow process used to notify User that they have been accepted into an auction.

Default: eAuction User Welcome Notice

eAuc:Notice Wf-Winner

Name of workflow process used to notify Bidder that they have won.

Default: eAuction Win Notice

Email Personalization Format

Specifies the default email personalization format for sending offers in email marketing.

Example: /shared/Marketing/Example List Formats/Email Personalization - Contacts - Transaction database only example

Entitlement: Pricing Dates

If False or NULL, date verification is skipped when entitlement pricing terms are checked in the Verify Entitlement process. (Similar to the Entitlement: Verify Dates system preference except that one applies to entitlement pricing terms and the other to entitlement service terms.)

Entitlement: Verify Consumer

See Siebel Field Service Guide.

Entitlement: Verify Dates

See Siebel Field Service Guide.

Entitlement: Verify Product

See Siebel Field Service Guide.

ETL Alignment Version

See Siebel Data Warehouse Installation and Administration Guide.

ETL Analysis End

ETL Analysis Start

ETL Date Format

ETL Date format indicates the way dates need to be interpreted. The other two parameters mention the date range for which the Exchange Rates will be adjusted. This does not indicate that only the data created within this range will be extracted. Select the earliest date for the Analysis Start Date—that is, when the transactions may have begun. In addition to considering the created and modified dates, consider other relevant dates such as order date. Setting this to an early value such as 19700101 (January 1, 1970) does not affect the processing time. A similar logic applies for choosing Analysis End Date. Note that the values need to be entered in the format defined by ETL Date Format.

Default Analysis End: 20101231

Default Analysis Start: 19940101

Default Date Format: YYYYMMDD

ETL Base Exchange Currency

Currency in which all the financial data will be converted. While the OLTP supports transactions in many different currencies, the data in the OLAP is converted to a single currency for analysis purposes. The Exchange rates are derived from the Exchange Rates table in the OLTP.

Default: USD

ETL Default Continent

Value for any address that does not have Continent defined. Set this to a value, which will be used if the value of Continent is not defined in the OLTP.

Default: North America

ETL Default Country

Value for any address that does not have the Country defined. Set this to a value, which will be used if the value of Country is not defined in the OLTP.

Default: USA

ETL Default Currency

Value for currency code that will be used if the currency code for a specific financial transaction is not set.

Default: USA

ETL Default Language

Language code used when language translation occurs when looking up the List of Values table.

Default: ENU

ETL LOV Maximum Value

ETL LOV Minimum Value

In some fields, bucketing of values happens. Instead of saying the number of employees at an account is 45, 96, the values can be bucketed to 0-50, 50-100 and so on. In the List of Values, if the minimum and maximum values are not specified, the values of these parameters will be used.

Defaults: 9999999999 and 0

ETL Unknown Exchange Rate

Value used when an exchange rate for a currency to the Datamart Default Currency is undefined in the OLTP.

Default: 1

FINSeBanking Bill Pay Campaign

A user property for these applets:

  • FINS eBanking Bill Pay Home Campaign Applet
  • FINS eBanking Announcements Applet (Bill Pay)
  • FINS eBanking Special Offers Applet (Bill Pay)

When this system preference is set to a campaign name, these applets only display offers for that campaign.

FINSeBanking Campaign

A user property for these applets:

  • FINS eBanking Announcements Applet
  • FINS eBanking Home Campaign Applet

When this system preference is set to a campaign name, these applets only display offers for that campaign.

FINSeEnrollment Campaign

A user property for the FINS eEnrollment Announcement List Applet. When this system preference is set to a campaign name, the applet only displays Web-Announcements offers for that campaign.

FINSeSales Campaign

A user property for these applets:

  • FINS Let Us Help You Applet (eSales)
  • FINS Whats New In Your Life Applet (eSales)
  • FINS eAdvisor Special Offers Applet

When this system preference is set to a campaign name, these applets only display offers for that campaign.

Forecast: Auto-Forecast

Creates subordinates' forecasts to be used in a rollup forecast, if the subordinates have not created forecasts themselves.

Forecast: Use Server Task

Send forecast processing requests to the Siebel Server for batch processing. If the value is False, requests are processed locally.

FSAssetSwap SubComponents

If set to TRUE, the subcomponent assets of the source asset are shifted to the target asset when an activity part tracker transaction is committed.

FSDB:Override Service Region

Maximum monetary value accepted in Auction Item, Bid, and Fee currency fields.

INSeService Campaign

A user property for the FINS FSW Announcements Applet. When this system preference is set to a campaign name, the applet only displays Web-Announcements offers for that campaign.

INSeService Discount Campaign

A user property for the FINS FSW Health Discount Announcements Applet. When this system preference is set to a campaign name, the applet only displays Web-Announcements offers for that campaign.

Internal DUNS Number

Your company's DUNS number.

LOGMGR:Vis Rules per Statement

Set to 50 by default. For implementations that use any database other than Oracle, you should change this value to 20.

Lots For Disperse Only

See Siebel Life Sciences Guide.

MRG:Docking Timestamp Source

See Siebel Remote and Replication Manager Administration Guide.

MRG:Inter Table Conflict Res

See Siebel Remote and Replication Manager Administration Guide.

MRG:Inter Table Merge Rule

See Siebel Remote and Replication Manager Administration Guide.

MRG:System Conflict Resolution

See Siebel Remote and Replication Manager Administration Guide.

MRG:Txns per Commit

See Siebel Remote and Replication Manager Administration Guide.

MRG:User Friendly Notification

See Siebel Remote and Replication Manager Administration Guide.

Quick Print Application

A user property to determine the application used by quick print. Allowed values are: HTML and EXCEL. This system preference can be overridden by the Quick Print Application user preference.

Quick Print Output Format

Set to HTML, CSV, or Tab, as appropriate for the quick print application that you are using.

ReadOnlyOrderStatus

If the status of an order matches one of the values in this system preference, then the order becomes read-only when invoiced.

Default: 'Booked','Billed'

SalesHierarchy:UseServerTask

If set to TRUE, the Sales Hierarchy operation runs as a server task.

Samples Lots Enabled

See Siebel Life Sciences Guide.

Satmetrix Key Value

A string provided by Satmetrix to customers of Siebel Satmetrix Surveys. Required for generating encrypted tokens that are part of URLs for displaying survey reports.

Sch:Break Time Id

Specifies the Row ID of the work type to be used when calculating the schedule cost where activities contain breaks. The default value is -1.

To find the Row ID, navigate to the Application Administration
screen > Work Type Administration view, select the record, choose About Record from the Help menu, and note the Row # value.

Sch:Default Constraint Set

Specifies the Row ID of the constraint set to be used where no constraint set is associated with the service region loaded. The default value is -1.

To find the Row ID, navigate to the Scheduling Administration
screen > Constraint Sets view, select the record, select About Record from the Help menu and note the Row # value.

Sch:Default Cost Function

Specifies the Row ID of the cost function to be used where no cost function is associated with the service region loaded. The default value is -1.

To find the Row ID, navigate to the Scheduling Administration screen > Cost Functions view, select the record, select About Record from the Help menu and note the Row # value.

Sch:Default Parameter Set

Specifies the Row ID of the parameter set to be used where no cost function is associated with the service region loaded. The default value is -1.

To find the Row ID, navigate to the Scheduling Administration
screen > Parameter Sets view, select the record, select About Record from the Help menu and note the Row # value.

Sch:Default Time Window

Specifies the Row ID of the time window to be used where no cost function is associated with the service region loaded. The default value is -1.

To find the Row ID, navigate to the Scheduling Administration screen > Time Window view, select the record, select About Record from the Help menu and note the Row # value.

SecThickClientExtAuthent

See Security Guide for Siebel eBusiness Applications.

SM WebIntelligence Server

The URL that points to the Web Intelligence server that serves up reports for Siebel Analytics.

SqlStyle

Indicate which SQL statements are to be used with this implementation—Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Informix, or Sybase. Case-sensitive.

SSASqlErrRsltsDiscarded

This message is displayed to the user when there are more rows than can be returned. For more information, see Implementing Siebel eBusiness Applications on DB2 UDB for z/OS and OS/390.

SubSqlStyle

An SQLStyle that falls within a family of similar database products.

Syndicated Data

Set to Y to allow syndexp.exe to generate the syndicated data files on the Siebel Server.

Syndicated data is only used in the Life Sciences application.

Target Lists

Obsolete.

Technical Support (Alt. 1)

Specifies the telephone numbers to display in the Siebel Technical Support dialog box. Update this number to match your internal help desk number. The alternate numbers (Alt. 1 and Alt. 2) provide expansion for pager numbers and email addresses.

Set a value to None to leave it blank in the dialog box.

Technical Support (Alt. 2)

Specifies the telephone numbers to display in the Siebel Technical Support dialog box. Update this number to match your internal help desk number. The alternate numbers (Alt. 1 and Alt. 2) provide expansion for pager numbers and email addresses.

Set a value to None to leave it blank in the dialog box.

Technical Support (FAX)

Specifies the fax number to display in the Siebel Technical Support dialog box. Update this number to match your internal help desk fax number.

Set a value to None to leave it blank in the dialog box.

Technical Support (URL)

Specifies the support URL to display in the Siebel Technical Support dialog box. Update this URL to match your internal help desk Web address.

Set a value to None to leave it blank in the dialog box.

Technical Support (Voice)

Specifies the voice number to display in the Siebel Technical Support dialog box. Update this number to match your internal help desk number.

Set a value to None to leave it blank in the dialog box.

Training: EAI HTTP Password

Specifies the password for the user name given in the Training: EAI HTTP User Name system preference.

Training: EAI HTTP Server

Specifies the server that AICC/SCORM-compatible content uses for eAI communication.

If set to:

  • default, then the URL of the current Siebel Server is used (For example, if the Siebel URL is http://siebelserver/erm_enu, the EAI URL is http://siebelserver/eai_enu.)
  • defaultsecure, then the URL of the secure Siebel Server is used
  • An explicit URL, this URL must be a complete beginning of a URL, for example, http://theeaiserver/eai_enu

Training: EAI HTTP User Name

Specifies the Siebel login ID for eAI requests by the AICC/SCORM-compatible content.

CAUTION:  Because the AICC and SCORM standards require this user name and the accompanying password to be used in a non-secure manner, choose a user name and a password that do not have access to any other part of the Siebel application.

Training: Lesson Adapter URL

Specifies the path to the lesson adapter HTML file, which is used by SCORM-compatible content.

This default value is typically satisfactory. This is a relative URL and is relative to the current URL of the Siebel application.

For example, if this system preference is set to lms/LmsLessonAdapter.html and the current Siebel URL is http://siebel/erm_enu, the URL launched for the lesson adapter is http://siebel/erm_enu/lms/LmsLessonAdapter.html.

Default: LMS/LmsLessonAdapter.html

Training: Lesson Security

Allowed values: PIN (the default) and blank

Specifies the method of lesson security used to validate eAI requests from AICC/SCORM-compatible lesson content.

If set to PIN, the launched AICC lesson is supplied a PIN number that it must use to interact with the Siebel application.

Universal Time Coordinated

Turns on global time zone support for the entire system. Set this preference to TRUE to enable global time zone support. The default setting is TRUE.

NOTE:  This is a one-time setting. Once you have turned on global time zone support in a production environment, you should not turn it off.

If you intend to operate your deployment with the Global Time Zone feature enabled, you must also set the operating system of your database servers to UTC time, or its equivalent. Failure to set the OS to UTC when the UTC parameter is set to TRUE will result in asynchronous server request errors.

For more information on enabling Global Time Zone, see Global Deployment Guide. Although enabling this feature is optional, it is strongly recommended that you operate your production environment with Global Time Zone enabled.

UsageTracking Enabled

See Setting System Preferences for Usage Collection.

UsageTracking Log Time Period

See Setting System Preferences for Usage Collection.

UsageTracking LogFile Dir

See Setting System Preferences for Usage Collection.

UsageTracking LogFile Encoding

See Setting System Preferences for Usage Collection.

UsageTracking LogFile Format

See Setting System Preferences for Usage Collection.

UsageTracking Sess Cache Size

See Setting System Preferences for Usage Collection.

User Group

The User Group grantee for database access privileges. It is used in the DDL Sync step in Siebel Tools where the schema for the application is defined.

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