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This guide describes how to create and manage products and product lines. The guide deals with two types of products: simple products and customizable products.
Simple products are those that do not have components that can be interactively configured. For example, you sell a model of telephone that has no components that can be configured at the time of quote or purchase. The telephone may have attributes that you can select, such as color. This is a simple product.
A customizable product is one that has configurable components. For example, you sell desktop computers that have several types of monitor and hard drive. Users can select which monitor and which hard drive they want at the time of purchase. Customizable products and their components can also have configurable attributes.
The chapter on basic product administration describes administration tasks common to both simple and customizable products. If your product lines contain only simple products, this chapter is intended to meet most of your product administration needs. The remaining chapters describe how to create and manage the product class system and how to create customizable products using Siebel eConfigurator.
The last chapter in the book is a technical reference and provides information on topics of interest to integrators and developers.
The organization of the guide is task-oriented. Each chapter describes a group of related tasks. The key concepts required to understand and apply these tasks are presented at the beginning of each chapter. The title of these conceptual topics begins with the word "Understanding" for example, "Understanding Classes."
The remainder of each chapter contains the tasks. The titles of tasks begin with a gerund (an "ing" word), for example "Managing Attribute Values." Task topics begin with conceptual material or facts to do the task correctly. If you do not find the information you need in the task topic, review the chapter's conceptual topics.
The steps in each task are numbered, 1, 2,3 and so on. Processes are collections of tasks that must be performed in order. Processes are presented throughout the guide. The tasks in a process are numbered a, b, c and so on.
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Product Administration Guide, Version 7.5 Published: 18 April 2003 |