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Order Entry Toolkit Business Service Methods


The Order Entry Toolkit (OET) business service is a set of methods that allow order management processes to be implemented in eSales workflows. The business service includes methods to manipulate the user's account information, validate payment information, and navigate to eSales views. These methods summarized in Table 11.

Table 11. EOT Methods
Method
Comment
Creates a new account, associates it with the User and associates specified addresses to that account. The method also sets a specified field in the Quote BC, if it is required.
Converts a quote to an order.
Gets the number of rows and first row ID in a BC for the input Search Spec. If Parent and Child BC names are provided, the search spec is applied to the Parent BC. If no Parent BC is provided, the Search Spec in applied to the one input BC.
Navigates to the view specified in the input argument.
Selects a record in the picklist into a field.
Rolls down the Service and Billing Account field values from the Quote or Order Header to the line items, if the value is NULL.
Submits the Pending Order by changing the Order Header and Line Items status to Open. Optionally, sets the Order Id to a defined (user property) Profile Attribute.
Validates the payment method, verifying that only one payment method at a time is specified for a quote.
Sets the Invalid Flag for all line items that have a base price = 0 except those that have an Action Code = Delete.
Navigates to the CME Shopping Cart if licensed; otherwise, to the standard Shopping Cart.


 Siebel Order Management Guide Addendum for Industry Applications 
 Published: 18 April 2003