Siebel Wizard

                Hello!

                Today I will talk about Siebel wizard.

                So, wizard is a way how developer can easily create objects in Siebel Tools. But as always, wizard is really easy to use tool it has some disadvantages. First of all is that using it you don’t learn how objects are related to each other. So before starting using wizard you should learn how to create objects in normal way (by creating them with “New Record”).

                So to use wizard first of all you need to lock at least one project, then you go to File – New Object and choose witch object did you want to create. There are list of possible objects:

1)      General:

a)      Applet Method Menu – Defines the applet-specific menu that is available when the applet is activated;

b)      BusComp – Business Component;

c)       Command – Selects witch command will be activated when user click specific applet object;

d)      External Table Schema Import – Creates import for external table. Table that will use data from external system;

e)      MVG – Multi Value Group;

f)       Pick List;

g)      Report;

h)      Table;

i)        View.

2)      Applets:

a)      Chart Applet;

b)      Form Applet;

c)       List Applet;

d)      MVG Applet – Multi Value Group Applet;

e)      Pick Applet;

f)       Tree Applet.

3)      EAI – Used for Siebel integration with external systems:

a)      Integration Object;

b)      OLEDB Rowset;

c)       Web  Service;

d)      Data Access Service.

Those are the objects in Siebel 7.8 wizard so it my change if your version of Siebel is different.

So after creating object with wizard you just need to compile the locked project and your changes should be in system. But always remember witch objects you create and witch you change, because wizard will create more than just one new object and it will also change some existing for your new change. For example Pick Applet – for it you need to create Pick List, Data Maps and so on also. Remember if the new object will need to change an existing object, you should Check out the existing object. If you will not do so you will not be able to Check In the changed object and then if you Check It out you will overwrite changes made by wizard.