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About Applications

An application is a collection of screens. For a given application, the Application object defines which screens will be accessible through menus and tabs. Examples of applications are Siebel Call Center and Siebel Partner Relationship Manager.

Although you can create new applications, modifying an existing application is usually sufficient to meet customer business requirements.

Two child objects of Application associate Screens to the application and expose Screens in the user interface:

• Page Tabs. Add Screens to the Tab bar.
• Screen Menu Items. Add screens to the Site Map.

In addition to collecting a group of screens and their associated views, an application object definition also includes the following:

• Find Objects used to configure the Find dialog box. For more information, see About Screens.
• Server Script and Browser Script that can be implemented as event procedures on startup, prior to closing, and so on. These are implemented through Application Script child object definitions, and created and maintained in the Script Editor.

  For more information about Scripts, see Siebel VB Language Reference, Siebel eScript Language Reference, and Siebel Object Interfaces Reference.

• Custom menu options for Siebel-provided methods. These are implemented through the application method menu item object definitions, and created in the Applet Method Menu Item Wizard.

  For more information, see About Applet Method Menu Item.