Examples of Reusing a Business Component Field or Table Column

The following are examples of how you might reuse a business component field or a table column:

• Use the Last Name or First Name field of the Contact business component to store the name of a contact.

• On the Account business component, instead of creating a custom extension column for a new field to store an email address, use the EMAIL_ADDR column of the S_ORG_EXT table.

• On the Order Entry business component, use the Revision field to store the revision number. Specialized behavior controls this field. For more information, see Caution About Using Specialized Classes.

• On the Campaign business component, use the Route Prospects field to store information that describes the campaign contacts that Siebel CRM routes to the Remote client. If you store other information, then Siebel Remote performance might be compromised.

• Use the WEIGHT column on the S_CONTACT table to store the weight of the contact. Do not use it to store information that is not related to the weight of the contact.

The Comment property of a column often describes the intended purpose of the column. Use comments to help you decide when to reuse a column.