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Siebel – Custom Applet Title

by Prachi Sharma

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There is an Applet title on the top of the Applets. This is normally something simple and static. For eg. Serial Number, Line Items, etc. I will discuss how we can make it dynamic. We will make it dynamic so that it displays something based on the record that is currently selected in the Applet.

I came across this recently when I was trying to practice with the solution suggested by Madhvi in her post on Showing red asterisk on conditionally required fields on this blog.

The Applet title is generally static and constant for an applet. In this article I will show a simple requirement and solution where we change the Title of the Applet on the basis of Account of the record selected. I will take the example of the “Order Entry – Order Form Applet (Sales)” which is the first applet on the Sales Orders screen.

1) Navigate to Siebel Web Client with Order Management functionality available.

2) Navigate to the Sales Order screen using Page Tabs on top or the Sitemap. You should be able to verify the first applet name by going to Help -> About View…

3) Login into corresponding Siebel Tools. Query on the Applets for the applet, “Order Entry – Order Form Applet (Sales)”.

4) Goto the “Controls” section corresponding to the Applet Object Manager. Here, you should see a control by the name of “AppletTitle”.

5) In this record, change the value in the column “Field” to “Account”.

6) Compile and Go. The Applet should now display the name of the Account in the selected record.

This is a dynamic approach because the Title in the Applet will now change from, “Sales Order” to the Account name of the selected record. This will work.

Trying to make it look a little good, we can create a calculated field as below, and use it in the Applet Title above.
‘Sales Order : ‘ + [Account]

This will make it look a little better by showing both the Applet Name and the Account Name. This can be done for any field not just the Account field.

Thanks Madhvi. While trying out your solution, I learnt something new as well.

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