About Siebel Anywhere File Attachments

This topic briefly describes how Siebel Anywhere works with file attachments.

Siebel Anywhere stores two kinds of file attachments in the Siebel File System:

• Individual upgrade kit item files. Upgrade kit item files are files that are included when a particular upgrade kit is built. Examples include configuration files (CFG files), which are used for configuration upgrade kits, and Siebel runtime repository data files (DAT files), which are used for Siebel Repository Export Import upgrade kits. Depending on the component types being upgraded, an upgrade kit might need to include zero, one, or multiple upgrade kit item files.

  Upgrade kit item files are stored in the Siebel File System after you click Finish in the Upgrade Kit Wizard. The files are visible in the Siebel File System as soon as the status of the upgrade kit record is Pending in the Upgrade Kits view (in the Administration - Siebel Anywhere screen). In the Siebel File System, individual upgrade kit item files are assigned file names that have the format S_UPG_KIT_IARG_ROWID_REVNO.SAF.

  In Siebel Anywhere file attachment names, ROWID is a unique number combination that identifies the upgrade kit record in the database, and REVNO indicates whether the upgrade kit has been revised. If you deactivate and reactivate an upgrade kit, then a new complete upgrade kit file is created, using the same ROWID value but a different REVNO value in the file name.

  The file name extension SAF is used for all compressed files stored in the Siebel File System, including Siebel Anywhere file attachments.

• Complete upgrade kit files. Upgrade kit files are the files that end users will download. Each upgrade kit file contains instructions for updating a specific Siebel component. Some upgrade kit files can also contain one or more upgrade kit item files, as described earlier in this topic. If upgrade kit item files are specified in the Upgrade Kit Wizard, then the specified files are incorporated into the complete upgrade kit file when the upgrade kit is built.

  Complete upgrade kit files are stored in the Siebel File System after you activate the upgrade kit. In the Siebel File System, complete upgrade kit files are assigned file names that have the format S_UPG_KIT_ROWID_REVNO.SAF, following the same conventions described for individual upgrade kit item files.