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What's New in This Release

Configuring Siebel eBusiness Applications is a new book title for 7.7 that covers how to configure Siebel applications. For example, it describes the Siebel object architecture, how to extend the data model, define business logic, and configure user interface objects. It does not cover the Siebel Tools user interface or general tasks about using Siebel Tools, such as customizing the Siebel Tools environment, checking in and checking out, and compiling. For information about the Tools application, see Using Siebel Tools.

The content covered in Configuring Siebel eBusiness Applications came from the following documents:

Most conceptual information and information about how to configure Siebel objects came from Siebel Tools Reference.
Siebel Tools Reference is no longer published. It has been replaced by Using Siebel Tools and Configuring Siebel eBusiness Applications.
Guidelines for configuring Siebel objects came from Configuration Guidelines.
Configuration Guidelines is no longer published.
Information about developing online help came from Siebel Developer's Reference.

What's New in Configuring Siebel eBusiness Applications, Version 7.7, Rev. A.

Table 1 lists changes described in this version of the documentation.

Table 1. Changes in Configuring Siebel eBusiness Applications, Version 7.7, Rev. A
Topic	Description
Browser-Side Scripting	Modified steps for loading compiled browser scripts into the Siebel Web server extension.
Process for Creating Screen Home Page Views	Added process for configuring screen home page views.
About the Toolbar Item Object Type	Added new description of the Position property for the Toolbar Item object type.
About the Menu and Menu Item Object Types	Added new description of the Position property for the Menu Item object type.
About Lists of Values	Revised description of Lists of Values to include an example and information on how LOV Types map to Picklist objects in the repository.
Creating New LOV Types and LOV Values Using Siebel Tools	Revised procedure to include information about defining records to define LOV Types.
About Organization Enabled Lists of Values	Added section to describe new 7.7 functionality for configuring LOVs to appear for specified organizations.
About Shuttle Applets	Removed note about using CFG file parameters to disable the shuttle applet functionality. Added note about shuttle applets not supporting popup applets.
Creating a Spell Check Button	Revised procedure to cover differences when configuring spell check for required versus non-required fields.
Creating a Spell Check Menu Item	Revised procedure to the differences between configuring spell check for required versus non-required fields.

What's New in Configuring Siebel eBusiness Applications, Version 7.7

Table 2 lists changes described in this version of the documentation to support release 7.7 of the software.

Table 2. New Product Features in Configuring Siebel eBusiness Applications, Version 7.7
Topic	Description
Working with the Entity Relationship Designer	New chapter about the Entity Relationship Designer.
Changing Styles of Label Text	Added this topic about using HTML tags in object properties.
Aligning Label Text in a Grid Layout	Added this topic about aligning label text independently from controls in grid-layout applets.
Copying and Pasting Items in a Grid Layout	Added this topic about copying and pasting items.
Applet Web Templates that Cannot Be Converted to a Grid Layout	Revised this topic for new 7.7 functionality.
About the UI Navigation Model	Revised this topic to support new 7.7 functionality.
Registering Views	Revised this topic to include information about the new 7.7 View picklist.
About Screen Views	Added this topic to cover new 7.7 Screen View functionality.
Example Screen View Hierarchy	Added this topic to cover new 7.7 Screen View functionality.
Creating Screen Views	Revised this topic to cover new 7.7 Screen View functionality.
Defining Sequence for Screen View Objects	Added this topic to cover new 7.7 Screen View functionality.
Association Applets Invoked from Multi-Value Group Applets in SI Mode	Revised this topic to include information about shuttle applets.