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Previewing a Project

To make sure that the edits you make to the Interactive Designer project affect your application, preview the application in a browser.

NOTE:  To preview a stand-alone application, open the home.htm file in a browser.

To preview a project

  1. From the Tools menu of your browser, choose Internet Options and click Settings.
  2. Select Every Visit to the Page. This is a one-time setting.
  3. In the Projects screen, select the project you want to preview.
  4. Validate the project.

    5. For more information, see Validating a Project.

    NOTE:  Complete the following two steps if you are working in a zero footprint Web client development environment.

  5. In your Siebel application .cfg file, set the WebClientSiteDir variable to the directory you want your files published to. This directory must specify the Siebel Web Engine, the public folder, and the language folder, as in SWEAPP\public\<lang>.

    6. The files will be saved to this folder under the ISSRUN\CDAPROJECTS directory. For example, if the WebClientSiteDir variable is set to eapps\public\enu, then for the project "QuickTour" whose project location is set to "QuickTour," the preview files are saved to eapps\public\enu\issrun\cdaprojects\QuickTour.

  6. If you are deploying in multiple languages, repeat Step 5 for each .cfg file in each language folder.

    7. The .cfg files live under the Siebel Root\bin\<lang> directory. Open each language directory, for example, ENU for English, and set the WebClientSiteDir variable in the .cfg file to point to the appropriate Siebel Web Engine for that language's deployment.

  7. From the Projects View applet menu, choose Preview.

    8. The application appears as it will at runtime.

    The following figure shows an example of a previewed application.

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 Siebel Interactive Designer Administration Guide 
 Published: 18 April 2003