Upgrade Ancestor Property

You can link repository objects together so that one object inherits the upgrade behavior of another. You do this by specifying an upgrade ancestor for an object. You can specify upgrade ancestors for the following object types:

• Applets

• Business Components

• Integration Objects

• Reports

For example, you create Applet-B by copying Oracle standard Applet-A. In Applet-B you specify Applet-A as the upgrade ancestor. In the New Siebel Repository, Applet-A has a new button. Because Applet-B is a descendant of Applet-A, the merge process adds the new button to both Applet-A and Applet-B.

If you had not specified Applet-A as an upgrade ancestor of Applet-B, then Applet-B would not have received the new button.