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Turning Off Default Instance Creation

When you add a customizable product to a quote, order, or agreement, a default product instance is created. This causes the default items in the customizable product to display as line items. When the user clicks Customize, another instance is created for the configuration session. The default instance is not used.

For large products with components, creating the default instance can significantly increase the time required to add the customizable product to Line Items to the quote or order. To improve performance, you can turn off default instance creation. When you add a customizable product, this causes it to display as a single line item. The default components do not display as line items.

This will not affect performance when the user clicks Customize since this creates a new product instance. Turning off default instance creation applies only to products with components. It does not apply to bundles.

When you turn off default instance creation and the user launches Configurator, a Configurator violation message is displayed. You must also configure the Siebel application to skip this violation message.

To turn off default instance creation

1. In Oracle's Siebel Tools, locate the Quote Item, Order Entry - Line Items or FS Agreement Item business component.
2. Display user properties.
3. Set the Skip Loading Default Cfg Instance user property to Y.
4. Recompile the desired application and test.

To skip the violation message

1. In Oracle's Siebel Tools set the User Property Skip Loading Default Cfg Instance of the Business Service SIS OM PMT Service to Y.
2. Edit the Workflow, SIS OM Edit Delta Quote Line Item by adding a new input argument to the workflow step Reconfigure Product Instance and giving it the following values:
   • Input Argument = Skip Required Attribute Warning
   • Type = Process Property
   • Property Name = Skip Required Attribute Warning
3. Make the same changes described in Step 2 to the following workflows:
   • SIS OM Edit Service Order Line Item
   • SIS OM Edit Complex Asset Workflow