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About Static Pick List Objects

The Pick List object is referenced by the originating field and identifies the business component and field that populate the pick applet. The Pick List object definition has the following important properties:

• Business Component. In this property enter the value PickList Generic. This indicates that the list of values comes from the system tables.
• Type Field. In this property enter the value Type. This indicates that Type is the field in the PickList Generic business component to search for types. Each list of values has a type, which uniquely identifies the list and each value in it.
• Type Value. In this property enter the relevant type for the list of values. For example, in the Lead Quality picklist in Figure 73, the values that appear in the list have a Type field value of LEAD_QUALITY in the List of Values View in Siebel applications.
• Search Specification. If a Search Specification value is defined for the Pick List, it overrides the business component's Search Specification. If a Search Specification is not defined, the Search Specification for the business component is used. The default value of the Search Specification is blank.
• Sort Specification. If a Sort Specification value appears in the Pick List object definition, this overrides the business component's sorting with that of the Pick List. The default value for the Sort Specification property is blank, which tells the system to use the business component's sorting.

  This feature is useful for nonstandard sorting of values in a static picklist that is based on a list of values in the PickList Generic business component. By default, a list of values is sorted in ascending order on the Order By field within a Type. If the Order By values are blank, the entries for the Type are alphabetically sorted on the Value field, in ascending order. You can alter this behavior for one static picklist by setting a sort specification in its picklist.

• No Insert. Static picklists must have their No Insert property set to TRUE to work properly. If this property is set to FALSE the application generates the following error message:

  "Unable to create picklist popup applet."