This chapter describes the Siebel adapter, lists supported Siebel entities, and describes attachment options, authentication, and document security.
This chapter covers the following topics:
The Siebel Adapter for Oracle WebCenter Content allows Siebel CRM users to scan, attach, store, and retrieve attachments stored in an Oracle WebCenter Content Server repository. Content Server documents are displayed as managed attachments to Siebel entities in a customizable IFrame within the Siebel application.
The Siebel Adapter for WebCenter provides a Siebel archive (SIF) file that automatically configures the following Siebel entities:
Account
Activity
Contact
Asset
Call Report
Claim
Opportunity
Order
Project
Quote
Service Request
Public Sector Case objects, including:
Case
Arrest
Offense
Incident
Evidence
Lead
Group
Group Suspect
See Section 2.3 for detailed configuration information.
Note:
Additional Siebel entities can be configured for use with the Siebel Adapter for WebCenter by following the instructions in Section B.
Figure 1-1 illustrates the IFrame configuration for the Siebel adapter.
Figure 1-1 System Architecture for IFrame Configuration for Siebel Adapter
When a Siebel user displays a Siebel record such as a contact, Content Server lists the attachments to which the user has access in a Managed Attachments IFrame.
Siebel users can perform the following tasks in the attachments IFrame:
Open documents in their native application or Web-viewable format
Check in new documents to Content Server and attach them to the selected Siebel entity
Detach documents from a Siebel entity
Refresh the IFrame's list of attachments
Select and order fields for display in the attachments IFrame
Search Content Server using advanced search options
View an attached document's information
Check out documents, locking them to changes by other users
Modify a document's metadata values
Scan and import documents using Oracle WebCenter Capture, attaching them to a selected Siebel entity
For details about how users work with Content Server documents in a Siebel application, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware Using the Siebel Application Adapter for Oracle WebCenter.
Siebel users must have a Content Server account to display the Managed Attachments IFrame within the supported Siebel entity. In addition, the authentication model configured for Content Server and Siebel determines how users are authenticated the first time they display a Siebel record that includes the attachments IFrame:
Content Server configured for Oracle Single Sign-On: If Siebel is not configured for single sign-on, the Content Server single sign-on login prompt is displayed. (If Siebel is configured for single sign-on, the user has been authenticated, so no login prompt is displayed.)
Content Server not configured for Oracle Single Sign-On: The Content Server login prompt is displayed, regardless of the selected Siebel authentication model.
Users set a document's security when checking it into Content Server. In the attachments IFrame, Siebel users see only those attachments to which their Content Server account allows them access. So a document attached to a Siebel entity does not appear in the search results for an unauthorized user. It is recommended to use a profile that specifies default security values for document check-in.