About Visibility on the Siebel CRM Client

Each record downloaded to the Siebel CRM client is sampled with a visibility number. The visibility number is used to determine which views the record must display. The visibilities supported and the corresponding visibility codes are shown in the table in Determine the Correct Visibility for Default Business Object Declarations.

Note: Group, Catalog, or Sub Organization visibility are not supported. For each BC Table in the local storage, there is a column called _PdaVisibilityTypes which holds the visibility information. The value in this field is calculated using the following formula: The sum of the power of 2 to the n, where n is the visibility code indicating the visibility of the record. For example, if a record is configured with the Sales Representative and All visibility types, then the value in the _PdaVisibilityTypes field would be (2^0 + 2^3) = (1+8) = 9.