About Generics

Generics are notifications to the user from the engine that one or more items within a relationship needs to be selected for the product with components to be correct. An example of generics is a star displayed next to the relationship name and product title during a configuration session because some minimum cardinality requirements were not satisfied. Siebel Product Configurator gives users a warning when they try to save a configuration that has generics in it, but it allows users to save the configuration and also saves the fact that the configuration is incomplete to the quote or order.

When the user verifies a quote, the application checks for incomplete configurations as well as for other information. If the configuration saved was incomplete because of unsatisfied cardinalities on relationships, the application displays a message when the user verifies saying that the configuration of the item is not complete and the user must reconfigure the item.