1. Configuring Siebel Business Applications
  2. Displaying Multiple Views on a Page

Displaying Multiple Views on a Page

The Siebel Web Engine can simultaneously display multiple views on a page. These views include the following main view and one or more alternate views:

  • Main view. Chosen from the link bar. Only one main view exists.

  • Alternate views. Other views that Siebel CRM displays with the main view. For example, the Search View that displays applets that it uses for find and search operations.

You can display multiple views in the following ways:

  • Place multiple views in separate HTML frames.

  • Share multiple views in the same frame.

  • Display multiple views in the main view in the main browser window and display a single alternate view in a pop-up window.

It is recommended that you define alternate views as simple views that do not contain complex navigation links.

The examples in this topic describe how to create multiple view layouts if you use HTML frames. The procedure is similar to the procedure you use if you do not use HTML frames. If you do not use HTML frames, then to position the views, you can use HTML tables instead of frames and framesets.

To support multiple views, you must modify the structure of frames and framesets.

You cannot configure Siebel Open UI to display more than one view on a single page, but you can configure it to display multiple applets in a view. For more information, see Creating a View and Configuring Siebel Open UI.

To display multiple views on a page

  1. Replace the first line of the <div od-type="frameset"> code of the Page Container web template with the following example code:

    <div od-type="frameset" htmlAttr="rows='80,50,50,*' border='0' frameborder='No'">

  2. Replace the view frame in the container page with a content frame.

    This frame defines the area where Siebel CRM loads one or more views. Initially this frame contains a frameset that includes a view type frame. You can replace this view frame with the following example content frame:

    <div od-type="frame" type="Content" htmlAttr="marginheight='0' marginwidth='0' noresize
scrolling='Yes'">
  <div od-include="CCMainView"/>
<!--od section frame close-->
</div>

    For more information, see Example Code of the CCMainView Web Template.

  3. Modify all the application container templates to use the content frame.

  4. To display more views in the content area, load a different content container page in the content frame:

    1. Call the LoadContentContainer method from a control or page item.

    2. Make sure the User Property container loads the content container.

    For more information, see Using the LoadContentContainer Method to Load Multiple Views.

Siebel CRM behaves the same before and after you make this modification. You only add one more layer of frames in the content area. The unmodified application container page template included in the view frame without the outer content frame does not create errors. You cannot use it to display multiple views.