Scripts That You Write for the Browser

Browser script allows you to use JavaScript, which is an interpreted language that runs in many web browsers. A browser script responds to an event on a browser Java object. This browser object works with the corresponding object that runs in the object manager. The set of events that you can script with a Browser object type is different from the set of events that you can script with a server script:

• For Siebel CRM, you can script a wide variety of events that the browser supports. An HTML control does not support the OnClick event. For more information, see Siebel eScript Language Reference.

• For a Siebel employee application, you can only script on the OnBlur or OnFocus events.

You use Siebel Tools to write a browser script. You can associate a browser script with the following object types:

• Applet

• Business Component

• Business Service

• Application

Note: A browser script on a business component is appropriate only if Siebel CRM displays the Siebel object that the script references in the Siebel client.

Hierarchy of Object Types That Siebel CRM Uses With a Script

The following figure shows the hierarchy of relationships between object types that Siebel CRM can use with a script. There is a one-to-many relationship between the following objects:

• Applet and Applet Browser Script

  Applet and Applet Server Script

• Business Component and BusComp Browser Script

  Business Component and BusComp Server Script

• Business Service and Business Service Browser Script

  Business Service and Business Service Server Script

• Application and Application Browser Script

  Application and Application Server Script

To script a browser event, you use a child object type of the parent. You can use these object types with their server counterparts in Siebel Visual Basic, JavaScript, or Java.