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Configuring External Business Components

To configure external business components, you perform the high-level tasks described below. Before proceeding, review Configuring the Business Component.

• Create a table definition.

  Import the external table definition into Siebel Tools using the External Table Schema Import Wizard.

  This wizard creates a new Table object definition in the Siebel Repository, based upon the contents of a DDL (data definition language) file you provide.

  As may be appropriate, you can import an external view definition rather than a table definition. References to an external table also implies an external view, according to your implementation.

• Map columns in the external table to Siebel system fields.
• Configure the external business component and specify the data source object.
• Create or update a business component to utilize the new Table object definition.
• Specify run-time parameters.
  • Configure the new data source in the Server Administration view.
  • Add the data source to the OM - Named Data Source name component parameter.