About Configuring Visibility of Pop-Up and Pick Applets

Configuring the visibility of pop-up and pick applets is one method of applying access control to data. Pop-up visibility determines what data is shown when a pop-up pick applet is displayed, for example, when a user associates a contact with an account, or adds a sales representative to the sales team.

Pop-up visibility is usually set using the Popup Visibility Type property of the business component object in Siebel Tools. When pop-up visibility is set in this way, any pop-up based on that business component will show the same data for all users.

Note: This topic provides configuration background information. It does not provide detailed instructions for working in Siebel Tools. For information about using Siebel Tools, see Configuring Siebel Business Applications.

There are often circumstances where you need greater flexibility when determining what data is shown in pop-up pick applets. For example:

• Most employees of your company only need to see positions for your organizations when they are assigning a sales representative to the sales team.

• Partner Managers need to see positions for your organization, as well as the partner organizations that they manage.

There are also many scenarios where it is appropriate that your partners have more restrictive visibility than your employees. In order to meet these business requirements, Siebel Business Applications have three capabilities that allow the developer to override the visibility set in the Business Component Popup Visibility Type property at the business component level in favor of another setting. The developer can:

• Set visibility of the Pick List object definition

• Use the visibility Auto All property

• Use the Special Frame Class and User Properties