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About Scripts and Script-Based Pricing Factors

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You can create pricing factors that invoke a Siebel VB Script or a Siebel eScript. Script-based pricing factors are extremely powerful, limited only by the theoretical limits of the scripts.

Script-based pricing factors are potentially more powerful and more flexible than other factors, because scripts can use data from any available business component and any pricing factor variable that you have defined in a table.

Scripts can also modify business components outside of ePricer. A script may be able to update some target other than a quote, order, or agreement, or component-based product with the output of the pricing engine.

You can use script-based pricing factors for:

Complex mathematical calculations. You can create a script with a complex mathematical calculation such as an optimization algorithm or a differential equation.
Multiple business components in a rule. You can use a script to create a rule that uses multiple business components.
Compound rules. You can use a script to create a compound rule that uses multiple fields in the same business component.

This chapter does not discuss how to write scripts, which requires significant training and is beyond the scope of this book.

For information about Siebel's scripting languages, see Siebel Tools Online Help.

For information about setting up Siebel applications, including Siebel ePricer, to use other scripting languages, see the chapter about data mapping using scripts in Business Processes and Rules: Siebel eBusiness Application Integration Volume IV.

NOTE:  Script-based factors can use scripts written in different languages, including Siebel eScript and Siebel VBScript. Determine which scripting language or languages your system supports before writing a script.

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