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Defining Form Applets

You create form applets using the Form Applet Wizard. The Form Applet Wizard helps you define the correct properties and automatically creates child objects, such as Web Template Items, based on the information you enter. You can also create applets manually by creating all the necessary objects and defining object properties.

The Form Applet Wizard does the following:

To create a Form Applet using the Form Applet Wizard

  1. Choose File > New Object from the Siebel Tools main menu.

    The New Object Wizard dialog box appears.

  2. Click the Applets tab, and then double-click the Form Applet icon.

    The General page of the Form Applet Wizard appears.

  3. In the General Page, enter the following information for the applet.
    Field/Checkbox
    Example Value
    Comment
    Project
    Account
    Only locked projects appear in the picklist.
    Business Component
    Account
    The business component that the applet is based on.
    Applet Name
    New Account Form Applet
    A unique name for the Applet.
    Display Title
    Accounts
    The name to appear in the user interface.
    Use Grid Layout
    Check mark
    Select this option if you want to have the ability to control the layout of the form applet using the Web Layout Editor. For more information see About Grid Layout.

    The wizard will use information to create an applet object and define the required applet properties.

    If you selected Use Grid Layout, the appropriate grid layout Web template is associated with the template and you can skip the next step and go to directly to Step 5.

  4. If you did not select the Use Grid Layout option In the Web Layout-General page, enter the Web templates to use for the applet, and then click Next.
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    For a complete description of templates, see Siebel Developer's Reference.

  5. In the Web Layout - Fields page, select the fields that you want to appear on the applet and then click Next.

    The fields that appear in the Available pane are those fields defined for the business component that you selected in Step 3.

  6. In the second Web Layout-Fields page, choose the controls in the Available Controls box that you want to appear on the applet and then click Next.

    All the entries in the Selected Controls box are added by default. If you wish to exclude some of the controls and move them to the Available Controls box, select the controls and click the activated arrow.

    NOTE:  The available controls come from the "Model HTML Controls" applet. This applet specifies the available controls and also to which template each control is mapped. Users can modify this applet if necessary by adding or removing controls from the applet.

  7. Review the information displayed in the Finish page, and then click Finish.

    The Form Applet Wizard creates the applet and supporting object definitions based on the selections you made.

    NOTE:  You can return to previous pages by clicking the Back button.


 Siebel Tools Reference
 Published: 20 October 2003