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Determining if You Must Use a Transient Business Component

This topic describes how to determine if you must use a transient business component.

To determine if you must use a transient business component

1. If one the following situations is true, then you must use a transient business component. If the following situations are not true, then do not use a transient business component. Use a standard business component instead:
   • A radio button or decision point determines the task flow.
   • The task UI must temporarily store data. For more information, see Storing Data Temporarily While Gathering the Information Required to Create a Complete Record.
   • You cannot use the Defer Write Record property to store transient data. For more information, see Using the Defer Write Record Property of a Siebel Operation Step Instead of a Transient Business Component.
   • You must control a search specification. For example, if a user must make a choice that includes a predefault value, such as in reply to the following question:

     In which month did your transaction take place?

   • If a task UI must change transient data while the task runs:
     • To use fields from different business components in a single applet. For example, to allow the user to create a new account and enter contact data in a single task applet.
     • To change the appearance of the user interface depending on run-time conditions. For example, according to a choice that the user makes, UI controls can map to different fields of a business component. If the user chooses Credit Card as a payment method, then fields for credit card type, number, and expiration date are available at run time.
     • To determine if a record already exists before committing a new record that might be a duplicate.
2. If you determined in Step 1 that you must use a transient business component, then create one now.

   For more information, see Creating a Transient Business Component.