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View Menu


The View menu options are used to change display environment settings, such as which windows and toolbars appear. It also invokes visualization views, which are diagrams showing object definition relationships. The View menu options and suboptions are:

Option
(Shortcut)
Suboption
(Shortcut)
Description
Windows
Properties Window
Shows or hides the Properties window.
Applets Window
Shows or hides the Applets window.
Controls Window
Shows or hides the Controls window.
Bookmarks Window
Shows or hides the Bookmarks window.
Web Templates Window
Shows or hides the Web Templates Explorer window.
Refresh Windows
Requeries and updates the state of dockable windows.
Editors
Web Applet Editor
Opens the Applet Designer for the currently selected Applet object definition, or the View Designer for the currently selected View object definition.
Server Script Editor
Opens the Siebel Script Editor. Editor may be specifically defined or be set to a default.
Browser Script Editor
Opens the Siebel Web Script Editor, which is used to access scripts that control the presentation and behavior of applet controls and list columns in a Web applet template.
Visualize
View Details
Generates and displays a Details visualization view for the currently selected business component or business object.
View Relationships
Generates and displays a Relationships visualization view for the currently selected business component or table.
View Descendents
 
View Web Hierarchy
Generates and displays a Hierarchy visualization view for the currently selected applet, application, business component, screen, or view.
Debug Windows
Calls
(CTRL+L)
Opens the Calls window for display of the call stack of the Siebel VB or Siebel eScript script currently being debugged.
Watch
(SHIFT+F9)
Opens the Watch window for display of the values of local variables in the Siebel VB or Siebel eScript script currently being debugged.
Errors
Opens the Errors window for display of the run-time errors in the Siebel VB or Siebel eScript script currently being debugged.
Preview
The preview of a Web view layout depicts the container page, screen bar, and view bar.
ActiveX Methods
Allows you to view the methods for the current ActiveX control in the Applet Designer.
Toolbars
Displays or hides the various toolbars: Edit, History, List, Debug, Web Controls, and Configuration Context.
Status Bar
Displays or hides the Status bar at the bottom of the Siebel Tools window.
Object Explorer
(CTRL+E)
Displays or hides the Object Explorer window.
Options
Opens the Development Tools Options window, in which you can set general preferences and settings for language, check-in and check-out, list views, scripting, Web template editor, debugging, visualization, Object Explorer, and database.
Siebel Tools options are stored in a user preference file, which is located in <Tools_install_root>\BIN. The user preference filename is login_ID&application_name.spf.

 Siebel Developer's Reference 
 Published: 23 October 2003