Order Entry Toolkit Business Service Methods

The Order Entry Toolkit (OET) business service is a set of methods that allow Siebel order management processes to be implemented in eSales workflows. The business service includes methods to manipulate the user's account information, validate payment information, and navigate to eSales views. These methods summarized in the following table.

Method	Comment
CreateAccount Method	Creates a new account, associates it with the User and associates specified addresses to that account. The method also sets a specified field in the Quote BC, if it is required.
CreateOrder Method	Converts a quote to an order.
GetBCCount Method	Gets the number of rows and first row ID in a BC for the input Search Spec. If Parent and Child BC names are provided, the search spec is applied to the Parent BC. If no Parent BC is provided, the Search Spec in applied to the one input BC.
GotoView Method	Navigates to the view specified in the input argument.
SelectPrimary Method	Selects a record in the picklist into a field.
SetLIAccounts Method	Rolls down the Service and Billing Account field values from the Quote or Order Header to the line items, if the value is NULL.
SubmitOrder Method	Submits the Pending Order by changing the Order Header and Line Items status to Open. Optionally, sets the Order ID to a defined (user property) Profile Attribute.
ValidatePayment Method	Validates the payment method, verifying that only one payment method at a time is specified for a quote.
ValidateQuote Method	Sets the Invalid Flag for all line items that have a base price of 0 except those that have an Action Code set to Delete.
ViewCart Method	Navigates to the CME Shopping Cart if licensed; otherwise, to the standard Shopping Cart.