Siebel Advisor Administration Guide


What's New in This Release


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Overview of Siebel Advisor

About Siebel Advisor

Advisor Application Architecture

Performance Considerations for Advisor Applications

Siebel Application Deployment Methods


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Overview of the Siebel Advisor Interface

Opening Advisor

Advisor Projects View

Pageset Details Screen


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Overview of Building Advisor Applications

About Using Siebel Advisor

Activating Workflows for Advisor

Roadmap for Creating an Advisor Application


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Working with Advisor Projects

About Advisor Projects

Creating an Advisor Project

Migrating an Advisor Project

Copying an Advisor Project

Performing an Advisor Project Data Search

Validating an Advisor Project

Previewing an Advisor Project

Deploying an Advisor Project

Exporting and Importing an Advisor Project

Advisor Projects in a Team Environment


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Working with Advisor Pagesets

About Advisor Pagesets

Creating Advisor Pagesets

Locking Advisor Pagesets

Specifying a Pageset to Configure a Product

Managing the Display of Pagesets in Advisor

Copying Advisor Pagesets

Validating Advisor Pagesets

Performing a Pageset Data Search


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Working with Advisor Feature Tables

About Advisor Feature Tables

Process of Creating Advisor Feature Tables

Analyzing the Problem Before Creating Feature Tables

Creating an Advisor Feature Table

Designing an Advisor Feature Table

Entering Data in the Advisor Feature Table

Creating Linked Advisor Feature Tables

Managing Advisor Feature Table Columns

Editing a Feature Table


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Working with Advisor Configuration Tables

About Advisor Configuration Tables

The Configuration Matching Process

Configuration Column Types

Cell Functions for Advisor Configuration Tables

Range Functions for Advisor Configuration Tables

Process of Creating Advisor Configuration Tables

Opening the Advisor Configuration Table

Designing the Advisor Configuration Table

Entering Data in the Advisor Configuration Table

Creating Exception Messages in Advisor

Creating Cross-Sell and Up-Sell Messages in Advisor


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Building the UI with Advisor

About Building a UI with Advisor

About Advisor Input UI Controls

Creating Input UI Controls with Advisor

About Advisor Output UI Controls

Creating Output UI Controls with Advisor

Generating Your Input and Output UI Display Page with Advisor


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Using Advisor Contents Lists

About Advisor Contents Lists

Process of Creating an Advisor Contents List

Creating a Contents List Record

Creating Contents List Items

Contents Lists for Advisor


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Working with Deployed Advisor Applications

Running Advisor Applications in Stand-Alone or Standard Mode

Calling Your Advisor Application from Another Siebel Application

Referencing Pagesets from Customizable Products

Invoking the ShowCDA Method from a Button

Passing in Parameters When Invoking the ShowCDA Method

Synchronization Setup for Advisor

Modifying the Siebel Synchronize Database Behavior

Using the Synchronize CDA Projects Screen

Modifying the Project Synchronization Behavior

About Working with Advisor Applications in Mobile Client Mode


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Advanced Modeling for Advisor

Trigger and Target Feature Tables for Advisor Applications

Creating Trigger and Target Feature Tables

Example of Creating Trigger and Target Tables

Additional Trigger Capabilities

Dynamic Defaults in Advisor Applications

Creating Dynamic Defaults for Advisor Applications

Example of Dynamic Defaults in Advisor Applications

Working with Subconfiguration in Advisor

Example of Subconfiguration in Advisor Applications

About Referencing Feature Tables in Subconfigured Data Models

About Setting Defaults in Subconfigured Data Models

About Accessing Model Variables

Performance Considerations for Subconfigured Data Models

Duplicate Configuration Column Names in Subconfigured Data Models

Creating Javascript Conditional Statements for Advisor Applications


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Customizing the UI of Advisor Pages

About Customizing Your UI

Editing the Project UI Files

About the Project UI Files

About Modifying the Contents List Location

About the UI Controls

Using UI Templates


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Referencing Other Siebel Data from Advisor

About Referencing Other Siebel Data from Advisor Applications

Binding Advisor Data to Siebel Business Components

Adding Access from Advisor to Other Business Components

About Modeling for Customizable Products in Advisor

Data Evaluation in Advisor Feature Tables

Data Evaluation in Advisor Configuration Tables

Evaluation of the Customizable Product Structure in Advisor Applications

Automatic Creation of the Customizable Product Structure

Best Practices for Modeling Customizable Products

Runtime Interaction of Advisor Applications with the Shopping Cart or Quote

Runtime Interaction of Advisor Applications with Server-Based Configurator

Runtime Access to Pricing Information in Advisor Applications

About Publishing Pricing Information in Pagesets

Associating a Price List with a Browser-Based Model

About Modifying Display Information in app_config.js

About Modifying the Application Configuration File

Adding Rules Based Pricing


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Working with Advisor Project Files

About the Advisor Project Files

Advisor Project Structure

The Project Files Tab

Viewing the Advisor Project Files

Creating a File Attachment to an Advisor Project File

Editing a File Attachment to an Advisor Project File


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Implementation of Multi-Variable and Cascading Triggers

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Siebel Advisor Administration Guide