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About Defining Field Dependencies

Dependency between fields can be defined by user properties of the integration component field. The names of these user properties must start with FieldDependency, and the value of each property should contain the name of the field that the associated field is dependent on. The Siebel Adapter processes fields in the order defined by these dependencies and errors out if cyclic dependencies exist.

Siebel Adapter automatically takes into account dependencies of fields set by a PickList on the fields used as constraints in that PickList. For example, if a PickList on field A also sets field B, and is constrained by the field C, then this implies dependencies of both A and B on C. As a consequence, Siebel Adapter will set field C before fields A and B.