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Adding Help Links for New Applications

If you create a new application using Siebel Tools, you can add help links to your application.

To add a help link

  1. In Siebel Tools, in the Object Explorer (Types tab) select the Application object type.
  2. In the Object List Editor, find the value of the Container Web Page property for the Application object.

    For example, the Container Web Page property of the Siebel eSales Application object is CC Container Page (eSales). Container Web pages map to the Web Page object in Siebel Tools.

  3. In the Object Explorer (Types tab), select the Web Page object type.
  4. In the Object List Editor, find and select the Web Page object definition that uses the Container Web Page.
  5. In the Object Explorer (Types tab), expand the Web Page object type to expose the Web Page Item object type.
  6. In the Object List Editor, create a new Web Page Item object definition with the following properties:
    Property
    Value
    Name
    HelpButton
    Type
    Link
    Caption
    Help
    Method Invoked
    GotoURL
    Item Identifier
    A number between 11 and 19 that is not used by another Web Page Item object definition.
    HTML Attribute
    target="_blank"
  7. In the Object List Editor, select the Web Page Item object definition you created, and in the Object Explorer (Types tab), expand the Web Page Item object to expose the Web Page Item Parameter object type.
  8. Create a Web Page Item Parameter object definition with the following properties:
    Property
    Value
    Name
    Url
    Value
    help/siebcomgeneric.htm
    siebcomgeneric.htm is the default start page for the help system. You can change this parameter to point to a different file, for example, index.htm.
  9. Recompile to create an updated SRF.
  10. Distribute the repository file to the appropriate Siebel Server.
  11. If you are using a different start page, test your changes and upload the new HTML file to the Siebel Server.

    For more information, see Testing and Distributing Changes.


 Siebel Developer's Reference 
 Published: 23 October 2003