Search Specifications Guidelines

Adhere to these additional guidelines when defining your search specifications:

• When specifying multiple business component fields or parent business component fields, use the AND operator at the end of the final expression. Only records that satisfy all of the matching criteria are returned by the search.

• Field values can contain any type of data that is accepted by the Siebel search specification system. For example, "PBCFieldValue2=Opportunity1+OR+Opportunity2" is a valid value.

• Field values not exposed in the applet itself can still be used by the URL. These fields will be explicitly activated and used for the query.

• Search specifications applied to a URL will work in the context. Therefore, the user will not be able to access the super-set of records, unless the user navigates to the view in question.

• If a parent business component field and parent business component field value is configured in a URL, and the business component does not have a parent business component, then the specification is ignored.

• If a business component field is used in the URL that does not exist on the business component, then the URL is considered invalid and the applet will fail to build. This results in unpredictable behavior in the portlet.