Multivalue Groups Within Business Components

Multivalue groups (MVGs) are used within Siebel business components to represent database multivalue attributes. MVGs can be one of two types: regular MVGs or MVG Associations.

An integration object instance most often has multiple integration component instances. For example, an Account can have multiple Business Addresses but only one of these addresses is marked as the primary address. A business requirement might require that only the integration component instance that corresponds to the primary MVG be part of the integration object instance. In relation to Account and Business Addresses this means that only the primary address will be part of the Account integration object instance. The primary address can be obtained by one of the following steps:

• Creating a new MVG on the Account business component that uses a link with a search specification only returning the primary address record.

• Exposing the primary address information on the Account business component level using a join that has the primary ID as source field. Note that in this case the primary address information corresponds to fields on the Account integration component instance and not the fields on a separate Address component instance.

In Siebel Tools, if a Siebel business component contains an MVG, then the MVG is represented by several objects as illustrated in the following topics.