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Creating Screen Views

Screen View objects represent groups of views (categories) or single views in the user interface. They define which views appear for a given screen and determine where the view appears in the user interface.

For more information about where screen views appear in the UI, see About Screen Views and About the UI Navigation Model.

When creating screen views, consider the following:

• Plan your user navigation using categories to group views where appropriate.
• Always set the Category Default View, otherwise the first view to be listed will be determined alphabetically by the Siebel Web Engine.
• Use Screen View Sequence Editor to determine the sequence of views. Do not edit the Sequence property of the Screen View Object manually. See Defining Sequence for Screen View Objects.

This task is part of the Process of Creating Screens and Screen Views.

To define a screen view

1. From the Object Explorer, select the Screen object type. The Object List Editor opens.
2. Choose Edit > New Record to add a new screen object definition.

   When you create a new record, the type defaults to Detail View and the Category Name and Category Default View properties are read-only.

3. Define a value for the Type property, and then use the information in the following table to set the property values for the new Screen View object:

   Property	Description
   Category Default View	Defines the default view for a Screen View of type Aggregate Category or Detail Category. It is recommended you always define this property for these types. For types of Aggregate View or Detail View, this property is read-only.
   Category Name	Name of the Aggregate or Detail Category. This property must be unique within each screen. This field is Read-Only when a Screen View is of type Aggregate View or Detail View.
   Display in Page	Must be TRUE for the Screen View to appear in the page. For Screen Views of Type Aggregate Category or Detail Category, this property should always be set to TRUE. It will not be displayed automatically if no views in the category are displayed.
   Display in Site Map	Must be TRUE for the Screen View to appear on Site Map.
   Menu Text	Text that appears in the Site Map. You can use HTML tags in this property to modify the text style that is rendered on the Site Map. For an example, see Changing Styles of Label Text.
   Name	Calculated field.
   Parent Category	If the Type property is Aggregate Category, this property is blank, because there is no parent. If the Type property is Aggregate View, this property may or may not be null. If the Type property is Detail View or Detail Category, this property must contain a value.
   Type	Can be one of the following values: Aggregate Category, Aggregate View, Detail Category, or Detail View. See About Screen Views for more information on Screen View Types.
   View	Required when the Screen View is of type Aggregate View or Detail View. This property associates the View with the Screen View object. It is read only for Aggregate Category and Detail Category.
   Viewbar Text	Text that appears in the user interface.

For more information, see About the UI Navigation Model.