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About the Toolbar Object Type

For each toolbar in the application, you create a Toolbar object definition in the Object List Editor. This provides a named toolbar that the user can activate or deactivate in Siebel applications, and to which icons (Toolbar Item object definitions) can be associated or removed. Typical toolbar functionality for most applications is implemented using HTML toolbars. In an HTML toolbar, the buttons are static images, which may be dimmed to indicate unavailability, but otherwise are not manipulated by program logic on the browser. In contrast, communications toolbars in applications such as Call Center, require toolbar icons that can be altered in response to events, such as blinking a particular toolbar icon when a call is incoming. This requires the use of Java toolbars. To specify that a toolbar is of the Java type, a class name is entered in the Class property.

For more information about configuring communications toolbars, see Siebel Communications Server Administration Guide.

Important properties of Toolbar are:

• Class. Left blank for an HTML toolbar, specified for a Java toolbar - the name of the Java class that implements the toolbar.
• Name. Referenced by other object definitions, and by the <swe:toolbar> tag in the "name=" clause.
• Display Name. Used for the History button and to show or hide toolbars by name.