Bookshelf v7.7: Physical User Interface Layer

The physical user interface layer consists of physical files, such as templates, Siebel tags, style sheets, and other file-based metadata, that control the layout and the look and feel of the user interface. The physical user interface layer separates style and layout definitions from user interface objects in the repository. This allows you to propagate style and layout definitions across multiple user interface objects.

Table 3. Physical User Interface Files
Files	Description	See Also
Templates files (.swt)	A Siebel template is a special kind of HTML file that defines the layout and formatting of elements of the user interface (such as views, applets, and controls). It provides this layout information to the Siebel Web Engine when rendering Siebel objects in the repository to HTML files.	About Siebel Templates
Siebel Tags	Siebel tags are special tags used in template files. They specify how Siebel objects defined in the repository should be laid out and formatted in the HTML page rendered in the user's Web browser.	About Siebel Tags
Cascading Style Sheets (.css)	Cascading Style Sheets are style sheet documents (of type text/CSS) that define how HTML or XML elements and their contents should appear in a Web document.	About Cascading Style Sheets

For more detailed information about templates, tags, or cascading style sheets, see Siebel Developer's Reference.