About View Popup Applet in the Standard Interactivity Mode Siebel Applications

Notice
Please note that the About View popup is used just for testing purposes in the Standard Interactivity Siebel clients. This is intended as help for developers who want to find out the names of views/applets they are working on.

Background

The About View popup applet provides details of the screen, view, business object, applet, and business components, currently being displayed in the Siebel application window.
This technical note describes how to implement this functionality in the Siebel customer facing applications.
Implementation
The About View dialog box could be invoked through a button in the frame view bar of the Siebel application.  The button will invoke the “AboutView” method (“About View (SWE)” command) that displays the About View dialog box.
The following needs to be configured in Siebel Tools:
1. Siebel Customer Facing Application:
First the user needs to determine the template used for the frame view bar of the customer facing application:

i.   Navigate to the Application Object Type and note the Container Web Page for your customer facing application.
ii. Select the Web Page object type and note the Web Template used for the Container Page of your Siebel application.
iii.      In the Web Template Explorer window, select the web template for the page container. Expand the web template icon, and note the FrameViewBar template used for your Siebel application.

2. About View Toolbar Item:

i.   Select the Toolbar Object Definition and create a new Toolbar with the following properties:

Name	Project
About View	Toolbar

ii. Select the Toolbar > Toolbar Item Object Definition, and create the following Toolbar Item:

Name	Command	Display Name	HTML Type	Type
About View	About View (SWE)	About View	MiniButton	Button

3. Placeholder for the Toolbar item:
A new Placeholder needs to be created in the FrameViewBar web template:

i.   Open the FrameViewBar template used in the Siebel application.
ii. Add a new placeholder for the new created Toolbar Item:
“<td>
<swe:toolbar name="About View">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td valign="absmiddle"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="21"></td>     
<td nowrap>
<swe:toolbaritem property="FormattedHtml"/>
</td>   
<td nowrap>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<span class="divider">
<img src="images/spacer.gif" align="absmiddle" width="1" height="18" alt="">
</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</td>   
</tr>
</table>     
</swe:toolbar>  
<img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" align="top" alt="">
</td>”

4. Save the changes in the FrameViewBar web template file.
5. Compile the changes in Siebel Tools
The new “About View” minibutton will be displayed in the View bar. Selecting the About View button will invoke the “AboutView” method (“About View (SWE)” command), which displays the About View dialog box:

References
1. Object Types Reference Guide > Siebel Object Types > Toolbar/Toolbar Items.
2. Tools Guide > B Tags > SWE Tags Reference > swe:Toolbar, swe:toolbaritem

Change Request 12-C7DT39 has been logged to address this Product Enhancement Request.