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About High Interactivity, Standard Interactivity, and Self Service UIs

Like other Siebel applications, Siebel Configurator supports three types of user interfaces:

• Standard Interactivity. The entire page refreshes whenever data is updated, as in standard Web pages.
• High Interactivity. Only the data refreshes when data is updated.
• Self Service. Use to render the Siebel Configurator UI in Siebel Self Service applications.

The high interactivity interface provides better performance, but it does not support all browsers. In general, you must use standard interactivity for customer applications, because you cannot be sure what browsers your customers use.

NOTE:  Use of the browser Back button is unsupported for a standard interactivity client while navigating within the configuration session.

For more information about high interactivity and standard interactivity and the browsers used for each, see the topic about deployment modes for Siebel Web clients in Siebel System Administration Guide.

You can assign multiple user interfaces to a set of users, as described in Assigning Siebel Configurator Interfaces to Users. If you have any doubt about what browser is used by a group of end users, you must assign two interfaces to that responsibility, one that is high interactivity and one that is standard interactivity. The application will check the interfaces in the order you specify in the Sequence field, and it will assign the user the first interface it finds that supports the user's browser.

In addition to high interactivity and standard interactivity UI's, the user can also define Self Service UI which is used to render the Siebel Configurator UI in Siebel Self Service applications. For more information about the Self Service UI, see Siebel E-Commerce Administration Guide.

The Self Service UI option is ignored by enterprise applications.