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Web Templates

A Web template defines the layout and formatting elements of the user interface (UI), such as views, applets, and controls. These UI elements are associated with the templates by using Siebel Tools. The associated information is stored in the SRF file. For example, you may have a View object with three applets. You associate a View Template with the view, and map each applet to a placeholder in that template. The advantage of this approach is that the UI objects in the repository are not hard-coded in individual templates. As a result, a number of View objects can share the same template if they share the same layout. The same process and design applies to applet objects.

The three primary templates types are Container, View and Applet. The final HTML pages created by the SWE places the applet in the view and the view in the container. Siebel Business Applications provide numerous applet and view templates with the product. They can be viewed in Tools, but are edited in an external editor. For more information about the physical user interface layer, see Using Siebel Tools.

To change the look and feel of your Web site, the following modifications are available:

• Adding or removing applets
• Changing colors
• Changing controls
• Making fields in a form appear
• Modifying behavior caused by clicking a button
• Modifying views and applets
• Modifying Web Templates

For more information about customizing the user interface, see Using Siebel Tools.