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About Applet Child Objects

The Applet object type contains several key child objects.

• Control. Implements controls on applets, such as text boxes, check boxes, buttons, and links. In form applets Control objects are associated with fields on the applet's business component. Controls are created as part of the New Applet Wizards.

  See About Applet Controls and List Columns.

• List. Used in List applets. A list applet has one list object definition, named List. The List object definition provides property values that pertain to the entire scrolling list table, and it serves as a parent object definition for the list column object definitions. List is automatically created as part of the New List Applet Wizard.
• List Columns. Child objects of List. It identifies one column in the scrolling list table and corresponds to one field in the business component. List column objects are automatically created after selecting fields in the New List Applet Wizard.
• Applet Web Templates. Associates an applet to a Web template. Web templates determine the layout and format of the applet when it is rendered in the user interface. An applet can be displayed in five modes. An Applet Web Template is defined for each mode. Web Templates are associated with Applet modes as part of the New Applet Wizards.

  For more information on Web templates, see About Siebel Templates.

  For more information about applet modes, see About the Role of Applet Modes.

• Applet Web Template Items. Child objects of Applet Web Template. Applet Web Template Items maps controls and list columns to placeholder tags or locations on a Web template. They contain the name of a control or list column as well as an identifier of a template placeholder. The placeholder determines its position of the control or list column in the Web page rendered at run time. Applet Web Template Items are automatically created when you drag and drop controls on to Web templates using the Applet Layout editor or when you create an applet using a New Applet Wizard.

Other child objects include:

• Applet Method Menu Items. Defines an applet-specific menu. See Creating Applet Menus.
• Applet User Properties. Allows you to configure additional functionality beyond what is available as part of the applet class. For descriptions of supported user properties for a given class, see Siebel Developer's Reference.
• Drilldown Objects and Dynamic Drilldown Destinations. Defines target views that users can drilldown from a given field. Dynamic Drilldown Destinations are child objects of Drilldowns and they are used to define several potential target views and various conditions that determine which view appears after the user clicks the drilldown. See About Drilldowns.
• Tree and Tree Node. Implements a Tree applet and all the nodes that appear when the top level of the tree is expanded. See About Tree Applets.

For detailed information about these object types, including property descriptions, see Object Types Reference.