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Types of Applets

This section summarizes the various applet styles found in Siebel applications.

Form applet. A form applet displays data in a data entry form. Fields in the business component appear on the form applet as text boxes, check boxes, and other standard controls. A form applet appears in Figure 129.

Figure 129. Opportunity Form Applet

See Form Applets for more information about form applets.

List applet. A list applet allows the simultaneous display of data from multiple records. A list applet displays data in a list table format, much like a spreadsheet or word processor table. Rows in the list applet correspond to records in the business component; list columns in the list applet correspond to fields in the business component. In addition to textual data, lists also support images in JPEG and GIF formats and edit controls such as check boxes, drop-down lists, MVGs, and text fields. A list applet appears in Figure 130.

See List Applets.

Figure 130. List Applet

Pick applet. A pick applet is a dialog box window that appears when a selection is to be made in a control or list column that has the check mark icon to its right. The pick applet provides a list or table of selection values, from which the user selects a value or record. A pick applet displays data that has a M:1 relationship to the data in the parent applet. A pick applet appears in Figure 131.

For more information about pick applets, see Pick Applets and Static Picklists.

Figure 131. Pick Applet

Multi-value group applet. A multi-value group applet is used for entry, maintenance, and viewing of a list of detail records associated with one or more fields in the currently displayed master record. MVGs allow the user to associate multiple records to a single field in a form or list and provide a way of representing one-to-many relationships within a single record of data.

There are two ways in which users can add data to the MVG:

Inputting data

Selecting from existing database records

For example, an account can have multiple members on an account team. A multi-value group applet can be invoked from the Account Team check mark control in the Account Entry form applet to display or maintain the list of members associated with the current account.

Both Pick List and MVG dialog boxes allow users to add or edit records in their lists, provided the user has permission to do so. A multi-value group applet appears in Figure 132.

For more information about MVGs, see Multi-Value Group and Association Applets.

Figure 132. Multi-Value Group Applet

Chart applet. A chart applet graphically displays data from a business component in a bar chart, line graph, pie chart, scatter diagram or other format. It summarizes and illustrates data relationships. Charts are usually accessed through a tab in the third-level navigation level and contain a number of sub-category views (multiple charts of data). These are displayed in an overview of miniature chart graphics (.gif images) with title text. Both the mini-graphics and the title text for the chart are hyperlinked to the detailed version of the chart. A chart applet appears in Figure 133.

For more information about chart applets, see Special-Purpose Applets and Controls.

Figure 133. Chart Applet

Once the full chart is displayed, the fourth-level navigation Show drop-down list is used to navigate between the various charts of data (for example, Sales Pipeline or Size Analysis). Additional controls on the graphs provide a means to filter the data being charted and to change the chart type (from bar to line, for example). See Figure 133.

Association applet. An association applet provides the user with the ability to associate records of two business components that have a many-to-many relationship. It is invoked from the check mark icon in a multi-value group applet. An association applet appears in Figure 134.

For more information about association applets, see Multi-Value Group and Association Applets.

Figure 134. Association Applet

Explorer or Tree applet. A tree applet is used to create an explorer view that allows the user to navigate hierarchically through a structured list of object instances. A tree applet appears in Figure 135.

For more information about tree applets, see Special-Purpose Applets and Controls.

Figure 135. Explorer or Tree Applet

File attachment applet. File attachment applets provide access to external documents, such as spreadsheets, word processing documents, and presentations, that have been imported in compressed format into records in a Siebel application. A file attachment applet appears in Figure 136.

For more information about chart applets, see Special-Purpose Applets and Controls.

Figure 136. File Attachment Applet