Symbolic Strings in the Object Hierarchy

The Symbolic String object type is a top-level object type. it includes the child Symbolic String Locale object type. Each symbolic string represents a word or phrase that is language independent. For example: Account

Siebel CRM stores all translations of this word or phrase, including English, as a symbolic string locale. For information about top-level object types, see Displaying Object Types in the Object Explorer.

Data for a symbolic string is stored in the S_SYM_STR (symbolic strings) table. Data for a symbolic string locale is stored in the S_SYM_STR_INTL (Repository Symbolic String Locale) table. Objects that reference symbolic strings store foreign key references to these strings in the S_SYM_STR table.

Symbolic strings do not include other types of strings that Siebel CRM typically includes as seed data, such as LOVs, error messages, or predefined queries. For more information about localizing these types of strings, see Fixing Orphaned String References After an Upgrade.