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About Organization Enabled Lists of Values

You can set up LOVs to appear for some organizations but not others. For example, suppose your company has several subsidiary companies and each subsidiary is set up as an organization in your Siebel implementation. For a given picklist, you can display different LOVs to members of each organization. You do this by associating LOVs to specific organizations. See Associating Organizations to Lists of Values for more information.

When LOVs are associated with an organization, the values displayed to the user may differ depending on whether the user is creating a new record or viewing an existing record.

• If a user is creating a new record, the LOVs associated with the user's current organization (the organization to which the user's active position is associated) are displayed. A user can be associated with multiple organizations if they hold multiple positions, but only the organization of the active position determines which LOVs are displayed.
• If a user is viewing an existing record, the LOVs associated with the record's owner organization are displayed. For example, the organization associated with a user's active position may be Org ABC, but the primary organization associated with the record that the user is viewing could be Org XYZ. In this case, the LOVs displayed for the picklist would be those associated with Org XYZ.

For more information about organizations and access control, see the Security Guide for Siebel eBusiness Applications.