Overview of Siebel Web Templates

A Siebel web template includes a preset format that Siebel CRM reuses each time it requires a particular layout. This configuration allows Siebel CRM to use only a single template rather than multiple files every time it requires a particular layout. For more information, see Siebel Web Template.

A web browser uses HTML to define the layout and format of a page. Siebel web templates provide this HTML layout to the Siebel Web Engine when it displays Siebel objects in the Siebel client. The templates contain markup tags, such as HTML and XML, that Siebel CRM intersperses with Siebel tags. Siebel CRM prefixes these tags with swe in Siebel Tools and od in Web Tools.

A Siebel web template includes empty placeholders that contain no data. To enter data and user interface elements into a template,Siebel CRM associates views, applets, controls, and other objects with each template. These objects are defined in the Siebel repository. Siebel CRM maps each object to an empty placeholder in the template. For example, assume a view maps to three applets. You associate a view web template with the view, and then map each applet to a placeholder in that template.