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Major Configuration Tasks
This is the general process you need to follow to configure a Siebel Web application:
- Do a thorough business analysis of your organization's and users' needs, and get buy-in and time and resource commitments from the relevant organizations.
- Can you meet the needs of your users with a standard Siebel application?
- If not, what business needs will require changes to the application?
- How can you ensure success with your configured application?
- Write a design document that includes:
- The requirements that are being satisfied by the configured application
- An ER diagram or text equivalent of the entity relationships
- The names and descriptions of the business objects and business components required for your application, and how they relate to one another
- Screen flow diagrams and a list of fields to be displayed on each applet
- A description of your development environment and process, for example:
- How the work will be divided up among participating developers
- Naming conventions the development team will be required to use
- How the application will be tested and rolled out to users
- The complete step-by-step procedures your development and test team will need to follow to complete the application
- Have the design reviewed by:
- Your participating organizations and users
- The Siebel Expert Services organization
- Set up your application development environment—for example:
- System and database environment
- Developer workstations
- Develop the application:
- Within Siebel Tools, create (or modify, if possible) the necessary object definitions:
- Business components and business objects
- User interface objects (for example, applets, views, and screens)
- Modify your template files.
- Compile your Siebel application and do unit testing.
- Using the tools available to you in the Siebel application environment (for example, Siebel Assignment Manager and Siebel Business Process Designer), implement the appropriate assignment and workflow rules.
- Extend the functionality of your application as needed through scripting using Siebel VB or Siebel eScript.
- Localize your application if the user interface is to be displayed in two or more languages.
- Do system and performance testing of your Siebel application.
- Iterate through the development steps until your design has been fully implemented and your application is running smoothly and meets your performance objectives.
- Introduce the application to your users and train them to use it effectively.
This section focuses on the tasks listed in steps 4 and 5, above.
For information about how to do Siebel application configuration tasks not described in the Siebel Tools documentation, see Table 12.
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Siebel Tools Reference, Version 7.5, Rev. A Published: 18 April 2003 |