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Siebel Product Administration Guide > Creating Validation Rules for Customizable Products > Scenario for Product Validation Using Custom Validation ServicesThis scenario describes one hypothetical way that product validation can be used. You may use it differently, depending on your business model. An automotive wholesaler buys cars with many factory-installed options and configures them by adding wholesaler-installed options. Some factory-installed options are not compatible with some wholesaler-installed options. The wholesaler must create requires and excludes rules such as:
These are similar to the requires and excludes rules defined in Siebel Configurator. However, the wholesaler cannot use Siebel Configurator to configure these products, because the wholesaler only controls some of the components in the configuration. For example, if you created a rule in Siebel Configurator saying that sunroof excludes roof-rack, Siebel Configurator would remove the sunroof when a user adds a roof rack. However, the wholesaler does not have control of the sunroof, and needs a rule saying that the roof rack cannot be installed if there is a sunroof. To solve this problem using product validation, the wholesaler:
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