Modifying Web Templates

A Web template defines the layout and formatting elements of the user interface (UI), such as views, applets, and controls. You associate these UI elements with the templates in Siebel Tools. The associated information is stored in the Siebel runtime repository. For example, you might have a View object with three applets. You associate a View Template with the view, and map each applet to a placeholder in that template. The advantage of this approach is that the UI objects in the repository are not hard-coded in individual templates. As a result, a number of View objects can share the same template if they share the same layout. The same process and design applies to Applet objects.

The three primary templates types are Container, View and Applet. The final HTML pages created by the Siebel Application Interface places the applet in the view and the view in the container. Siebel CRM provides numerous applet and view templates with the product. They can be viewed in Tools, but are edited in an external editor. For information about the physical user interface layer, see Siebel Tools Online Help.

The following is a list of some modifications available to change the look and feel of your Web site:

• Modifying Views and Applets

• Modifying Web Templates

• Changing colors

• Modifying behavior caused by clicking a button

• Adding or removing applets

• Changing controls

• Making fields in a form appear

For more information about customizing the user interface, see Siebel Tools Online Help.