About Screen Views

A screen view is an object that displays groups of views or a single view in the Siebel client. It allows you to group related views together and to control the location where Siebel CRM displays links in the Siebel client. The Type and Parent Category properties determine where Siebel CRM displays the screen view in the Siebel client. The screen view plays a major role in determining where Siebel CRM displays a view in the Siebel client, but a view web template ultimately controls appearance. For example, most web templates display links under tabs. Other web templates display these links in a list. For more information, see Creating a Screen View.

The following table describes types of screen views.

Type of Screen View	Description
Aggregate Category	Groups all remaining screen view types. Siebel CRM displays it as a link in the link bar after screen tabs.
Aggregate View	Siebel CRM displays an Aggregate View as follows: If no value is defined for the Parent Category property, then Siebel CRM displays the screen view as a link in the link bar after the screen tabs. If the Parent Category property contains a valid Aggregate Category, then Siebel CRM displays the screen view as a link in the view list in applet headers.
Detail Category	Groups detail views. Siebel CRM displays it as a tab.
Detail View	Siebel CRM displays a Detail View as follows: If the Parent Category property contains a valid Aggregate Category, then Siebel CRM displays the screen view as a tab. If the Parent Category property contains a valid Detail Category, then Siebel CRM displays the view as a link in a link bar after the tabs, or in another location depending on the web template. For example, Siebel CRM can display the screen view in a view list or in another row of tabs. Siebel CRM defines a nonvisibility view as a detail view with the Parent Category property set depending on the business object that the view references.