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About Siebel Advisor and Browser-Based Configurator

Interactive Designer is included with the following applications:

• Siebel Advisor
• Browser-based Configurator

Interactive Designer is the administration environment used to author and maintain interactive selling applications. Use Interactive Designer to create projects which contain browser-based applications. After you deploy the project, it is referred to as one of two kinds of applications: Advisor or browser-based Configurator.

Interactive Designer applications use a Web browser to present product specifications, prices, images, schematics, applicability guidelines, and other information that customers require to select products.

Interactive Designer supports the following user activities:

• Using Advisor to recommend products, services, or a course of action based on user needs
• Using browser-based Configurator to select and configure products based on product features and user requirements

Interactive Designer generates the JavaScript, HTML, and image files needed for an Advisor or browser-based Configurator application. The applications run inside other Siebel applications as part of a Siebel application or as stand-alone applications.

When a user opens an Advisor or browser-based Configurator application, the application files and the engine that manages them are downloaded from the Web server and individual files containing code, data, and user interface definitions are loaded in the user's browser as needed.

To define an application, you enter information about features and configuration of your products. You also enter basic information about how you want your application to appear.

Interactive Designer uses this information to produce JavaScript and HTML files.

After Interactive Designer generates applications, you can further customize their appearance and behavior with tools such as HTML editors.