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Setting Up Primary Specialties

As a Siebel administrator, you are responsible for defining and entering the primary specialty information about contacts.

The Primary Specialty field is read-only and can be edited only through EIM. The list of specialities is defined in the Primary Specialty view of the Application Administration view.

NOTE:  The Primary Specialty field is different from the Rep Specialty field on the Contacts screen. To create additional values for the Rep Specialty drop-down list, follow the procedures on modifying a list of values in the Applications Administration Guide.

To define a specialty

1. Navigate to the Application Administration screen > Specialty view., The Primary Specialty view appears.
2. In the Primary Specialty list, create a new record and complete the necessary fields.

   Some fields are described in the following table.

   Field	Comments
   Code	The Specialty Short Code for the health care provider's designated area of expertise. This is normally provided by the syndicated data provider (for example, AMA, IMS, or NDC).
   Name	A full description of the health care provider's designated area of expertise.

NOTE:  On initial data load, you can use EIM to load Primary Specialty data into the base table S_MED_SPEC. For more information on using EIM, see Siebel Enterprise Integration Manager Administration Guide.

To specify specialties for Contacts

• Specialties cannot be specified for contacts through the UI. Specialties are loaded into the MED_SPEC_ID field in the S_CONTACT table of the database using EIM.
• Alternatively, configure the Primary Specialty field so that it can be edited.