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ActiveX Requirements for Using High Interactivity

This topic describes the ActiveX requirements for deploying Siebel Business Applications using high interactivity. For more information, see About User Interface Deployment Options for Siebel Web Clients.

Siebel Business Applications using high interactivity rely on ActiveX technology to deliver features such as interactive controls, keyboard accelerators, email client integration, and so on. For a list of the ActiveX download files (CAB files), see ActiveX Controls Distributed for High Interactivity.

Enable a browser running a high interactivity application to work with (download, instantiate, and script) ActiveX controls. It is recommended that the URL for Siebel Business Applications be part of a zone for which security settings are defined as described in this topic.

In addition, system administrators must modify permissions for users or applicable groups.

For most deployments, downloading ActiveX controls on demand from a Web server is preferable. Code for each control is downloaded to the Downloaded Program Files directory when the control is invoked for the first time by an application feature.

Downloading ActiveX controls requires permissions associated with Power Users. For some controls, running a control might also require such permissions. The following methods are commonly used to meet applicable requirements. How to implement each approach is described in the topics that follow.

• Allowing end users to download ActiveX controls, by modifying user groups or permissions in one of two alternative ways:
  • Adding users to the Power Users group
  • Relaxing the default permissions granted to the Users group

    For more information, see Modifying User Groups or Permissions.

• Predeploying ActiveX controls in environments with secure user permissions.

  For more information, see Predeploying ActiveX Controls for Secure Environments.