Overview of Customizing Multi-Value Groups

Siebel CRM Desktop uses an MVG field to display associations between objects and to allow the user to choose the primary association.

The following figure displays an example of a field that uses the mvg_primary_selector2 control and the MVG button. Siebel CRM Desktop uses an ellipsis (. . .) as the label for the MVG button that opens the MVG dialog box. It displays this field with one primary association, by default. If the user clicks the ellipsis, then it displays all associations in the mvg_dialog dialog box. The user must use this dialog box to add a new association. The user cannot add a new association directly in the field.

The following figure displays an example of an inline MVG, which is a control that displays multiple associations in one field, where a semicolon separates each association, by default. It uses bold font to indicate the primary association. In this example, Default Organization is the primary association. The user can right-click an association to set it as the primary or to delete it. An inline MVG uses the autocomplete_list control and the MVG button. Siebel CRM Desktop uses the same ellipsis (. . .) that it uses in the former image as the label for the MVG button that opens the same mvg_dialog dialog box. Siebel CRM Desktop supports the inline MVG starting with Siebel CRM Desktop version 3.5.

The following figure displays an example of an autocomplete list where the user has started to enter a value in the field. The user can enter characters directly in the field to add a new association. As the user enters each character, Siebel CRM Desktop displays associations in the autocomplete list. The user can then click one of these associations to add it. For more information about the code that renders an autocomplete list, see Code That Renders an Autocomplete List.