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NREC's Virtual Business Component


Assume that NREC stores house renovation data in a comma-delimited text file that a third-party vendor provides to NREC. NREC's design includes a virtual business component used to retrieve the data from the file and display it in the Partner Portal application. It will allow partner agents and NREC employees to see a history of renovation information for each house stored in NREC's Siebel database. Figure 25 shows NREC's external file of renovation data. Figure 26 shows how the data from this file is displayed in the user interface.

Figure 25. NREC's External File of Renovation Data

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NREC's requirement is to display this data in a standard master-detail view showing a house record in the top applet and a list of renovations in the bottom applet.

Figure 26. Applet Displaying Data from a VBC

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The steps for configuring a virtual business component for the NREC's scenario are:


 Developing and Deploying Siebel eBusiness Applications 
 Published: 18 April 2003