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About Developing Web Templates

If you modify a Siebel Web template, then you typically work with the files stored on your local computer. After you test the changes locally, you copy them to the appropriate directory on the server to make them available to the Siebel Web Engine.

The typical development process for Siebel Web templates varies in the following ways:

• Simple Web template modifications. The modifications you make in this chapter are simple. For simple changes, such as moving the position of a control placeholder, it is easiest to make the changes to the Web templates in the Siebel Tools directory. Siebel Tools parses the file when you save it and identifies any format errors that might occur. The Preview functionality displays the Web template and the objects that are mapped to it as they would be rendered in the Siebel client. For minor changes, it is easier to debug the files this way rather than starting the Siebel Mobile Web Client and navigating to the applet where Siebel CRM displays the changes. After you use Siebel Tools to verify the change, you can manually copy the changed template to the Web template directory of your Siebel Mobile Web Client, start the application, and do final testing.
• Complex Web template development. For complex template development, such as creating a new Web template or significantly modifying the layout of a predefined template, you must create a prototype in HTML, translate the various parts of the template to SWE, and then debug. For more information, see Siebel Developer's Reference.