Example of Customizing the Behavior of a Presentation Model

You can add behavior to a presentation model. For example, you can configure a presentation model to display or hide a set of fields according to the value of another field. You can configure Siebel Open UI so that the Job Title field on the Contacts form applet determines whether or not it displays the Work# field and the Main Fax# field of a contact. If the Job Title includes a value, then Siebel Open UI displays the Work# field and the Main Fax# field. A presentation model defines this conditional display.

The physical renderer requires no configuration to implement this example. It queries the presentation model, and then renders these fields according to the instructions that it gets from the presentation model. You can implement this behavior on the client without modifying any configuration on the Siebel Server. For a detailed description of an example that uses this type of configuration, see Example of Customizing Siebel Open UI