Siebel Tutorials: Organizing Data Behind the UI

Organizing Data Behind the UI

1. Siebel UI displays collection of related business data items in Lists + forms.

• 1. Three distinct layers:

• 1. UI/Data presntation
• 2. Business Logic (BOs/BCs)
• 3. Data Storage

2. Summary:

• 1. BC = All data that a company wants to manage (i.e. Contact)
• 2. Don’t look at Contacts in isolation, want to see one BC in the context of another (relationship managed within view by BO)

3. Record:

• 1. Single Row in DB; Collection of related business data items in list/form (Applets)

4. Business Components:

• 1. Collection of data organized to reflect user’s business
• 2. BC = data from many tables, but based on one
• 3. Data appears in UI for user’s perspective, not how stored in DB. Tables organized for efficient storing / querying

5. View: (relationship between View + BO is important)

• 1. Collection of lists/forms representing functional business area
• 2. I.e. Relationship between top applet + detailed applets changes within a view

6. Business Object:

• 1. Organizes BCs in relationship to others for a given view
• 2. Contains information about the relationships between BCs
• 3. BO has master with children

7. Help about view helps show BCs on a view

at 12/04/2011