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About the Postmerge Utilities

Upgrades: All upgrades.

Environments: Development environment only.

You run the postmerge utilities after the repository merge completes. The postmerge utilities make revisions to layout objects from the Prior Customer Repository that have been added to the New Customer Repository:

• User interface navigation. Release 7.7 introduced a revised method for UI navigation. The postmerge utilities make revisions to new or customized layout objects from the Prior Customer Repository to integrate them into the new UI navigation scheme.
• Multi-Value group applets. The postmerge utilities enable the shuttle feature for multi-value group (MVG) applets. MVG applets must meet the criteria described in Configuring Siebel Business Applications for MVG shuttle applets.
• Flow-Based applets. The postmerge utilities convert many flow-based form applets to grid-based applets. If you have customized a form applet by adding fields and controls, the postmerge utilities place these at the bottom of the applet. You must reposition them after the merge.

How the Postmerge Utilities Work with Objects with Upgrade Ancestors

The postmerge utilities do not use the Upgrade Behavior property. This includes the following changes:

• Enabling the shuttle feature for MVG applets
• Converting applets to grid-based layout.

The postmerge utilities make these changes to applets based on their characteristics rather than upgrade behavior. Some customized applets may not be converted. See Configuring Siebel Business Applications for a full description of the characteristics applets must have before these changes can be applied. Configuring Siebel Business Applications also describes how to manually convert applets to grid-based layout.

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