Attribute Eligibility Architecture

Attribute eligibility checking uses the following architecture:

• For attributes requiring an eligibility check, the user creates a custom PSP procedure and attaches it to this attribute when it is defined on the class.

• When the configuration session is started, for each attribute that will be evaluated for attribute eligibility, a context row set, row set, and additional parameters are generated, and then the custom PSP procedure is called.

  • The context row set is based on the variable map Cfg Eligibility Variable Map - Context.

  • The row set is a list of all possible values for the attribute.

    Note: When an attribute value is changed, the same events occur except that the only value evaluated is the new value selected.

• The custom procedure evaluates each value in the row set to find values that are ineligible, and the custom procedure creates the following variables with the following values:

  • Eligibility Status = N

  • Eligibility Reason = user defined message

• With the default Eligibility Display Mode of 1, the Siebel Product Configurator UI uses this status to determine which selections are displayed in red.

• If Eligibility Display Mode was set to 2, then the ineligible values are not displayed.

• The Siebel Product Configurator UI uses the Eligibility Reason in the message displayed when the end user selects an invalid attribute value.