1. Configuring Siebel Business Applications
  2. Development Environment You Use to Create HTML Output

Development Environment You Use to Create HTML Output

The following figure describes the development environment you can use to create HTML output. The Siebel Web Engine uses templates, repository definitions, and HTML to create HTML output.

Development Environment You Use to Create HTML Output: This image is described in the surrounding text.

Explanation of Callouts

As shown in this figure, you use the development environment to do the following:

  1. Edit the HTML in an external HTML editor.

  2. Use the Web Layout Editor in Siebel Tools to edit the layout of an applet and to map object definitions to the Siebel web template.

    If a Siebel client requests a view, then the Siebel Web Engine does the following:

  3. Gets the object definition for the view and the object definition for each applet in that view from the Siebel runtime repository. Gets the data defined in the object definition from the data manager layer of the Application Object Manager (AOM).

  4. Matches this data with the template that the view references and each applet in the view.

  5. Uses the placeholders in the template to display this view. Defines where Siebel CRM places each user interface element in the object definition and how to format this element.

    If the user accesses the HTML file in a web browser, then Siebel CRM displays it as a web page. It uses the layout that the original template defines and it gets the data and controls.