How a Business Component Field Sequences Records

A situation might occur where you must create a field that provides sequential numbering for the parent business component. For example, you might need to number line items in an order or products in an opportunity. The sequence field behaves as follows:

• It is editable and can be set to any number.

• When Siebel CRM creates a new record, the initial sequence number is the maximum sequence number of the existing child records, incremented by one.

• Siebel CRM does not renumber records to resolve the gap that results when it deletes a record. The user must do this work manually.

For more information, see Determining How a Business Component Sequences Records.