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List of Values Fields
List-of-values records have the fields shown in Table 11. Not all fields for list-of-values records are displayed in the standard user interface. You can use the Columns Displayed menu option to see a field that is not displayed.
Some list-of-values fields, such as High, Low, and Weighting Factor, are for use by specialized Siebel C++ code to store additional information about the selected list of values record. In addition, pick maps can use list-of-value fields such as High, Low, and Weighting Factor. Pick maps normally use the Display Value field, which causes the list item selected by the user to be stored in the database exactly as it appears in the list. These fields can be used to populate other fields of the business component in which the pick map is defined.
If you need to use the High or Low fields, or other extra fields, use Siebel Tools to extend the PickList Generic BusComp by adding fields mapped to the corresponding columns on the S_LST_OF_VAL table. For example, you could use the High and Low fields to automatically fill in the high and low temperatures when a user picks a Month value in a Date drop-down list. To do so, you would add two pick maps to the Month field by adding the High and Low list of value fields to the Pick List field of Pick Map. For more information about the PickList Generic BusComp, and about configuring static pick lists and pick maps, see Siebel Tools Reference.
NOTE: The Target High and Target Low fields are used exclusively with Smart Reports. For more information, see Siebel Reports Administration Guide.
Table 11. List of Values Fields Along with the Display Value, the Language Independent Code uniquely identifies a value for a particular LOV type. In most cases the Language Independent Code is the same as the Display Value. However, the Language Independent Code and Display Value are different for multilingual lists of values (MLOVs). MLOVs allow a single logical list item to support multiple display values for users who are accessing the Siebel application in different languages.For example if the MR_MS (Personal Title) list of values were multilingual, there might be three list of values items with a Language Independent Code of Mr. These might have a display value and language of Mr. (English-American), Senor (Spanish - Modern), and Herr (German), respectively. German users would see Herr in the Personal Title drop-down list, Spanish users would see Senor and English users would see Mr. Although the display values vary across language instances, the value stored in the database when a user selects any one of these will always be Mr. since that is the Language Independent Code associated with Herr, Senor, and Mr. The Language Independent Code of a parent list of values. Used in hierarchical lists of values, where the values that will display in a drop-down list are constrained by the value selected in the parent drop-down list of values. For more information, see Constrained Lists of Values.
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Applications Administration Guide Published: 09 September 2004 |