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Configuring an Applet to Display External Data for Briefings


To display external content on a Siebel Briefings view, you must create an applet based on the business component that contains the specialized field for handling external data. See Configuring a Business Component to Allow External Data for Briefings.

You can configure the applet so that it does not display when data is not available. After you create the applet, you map the applet to a Web template, and then define the Web template items.

For example, you can create a new applet by copying the ePortal Account News applet and renaming the applet TopNews.

To configure an applet

  1. Create a new applet and define its properties.

    The following table describes the key properties for Siebel Briefings.

    Property
    Example Value
    Comments

    Business Component

    SI Account External

    Applet should be based on the business component that has been configured to handle the external data.

  2. Add the user properties, described in the following table, to hide the applet when no data is available.

    This feature is supported by applets with Class = CSSFrameListWeb.

    Name
    Value
    Comments

    NoDataHide

    Y

    If no data is associated with the applet, the applet does not appear on the view.

    NoDataRequiredFields

    TopNews

    The value of this user property must match the name of the field added to the business component.

  3. Add or modify the list column attributes.

    The list column Field attribute must match the name of the field defined on the business component. For example, if TopNews is the name of the field you defined in the SI Account External business component, you would create a list column with a field attribute set to TopNews.

    The following table describes the key list column attributes for Siebel Briefings.

    Property
    Example Value
    Comments

    Display Name

    Top News

    The value that displays in the user interface.

    Field

    TopNews

    The value in this field matches the name of the field defined on the business component.

    HTML Display Mode

    DontEncodeData

    This property must be set to DontEncodeData. Otherwise, the Siebel Web Engine tries to encode HTML results.

    Name

    TopNews

    The name of the field defined on the business component.

    Field Retrieval Type

    Symbolic URL

    The value is equal to Symbolic URL.

  4. Associate the applet with a Web template.

    The Web template used by Siebel Briefings for applets displaying external content is:

    ePortal Url Applet

  5. Define the Web template items.

    The Web template item should match the list column property on the applet.

    The following table describes the key Web template properties for Siebel Briefings.

    Property
    Example Value
    Comments

    Item Identifier

    501

    Maps to <swe:control> tag in the Web template (.swt file).

    Name

    TopNews

    This value should match the name of the list column or control on the applet.

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