Drilldown helps user to navigate to a view. Drilldown fields in a list view are identified by colored, underlined text, much like a hypertext link in a Web browser.

Siebel allows keyboard to perform some functionality such as scrolling up and down arrow key for moving to next record and previous record respectively in list applet and Pg Up and Pg Dn key to navigate to next set and previous set of records in applet respectively. Let’s see how to configure this Keyboard accelerators functionality.

Sometime we have to go for creating a custom business component because no existing business component is suitable or match or requirement and alos have to decide whether to go with existing table or create a new one. It will always be preferred to use the custom table for the functionality because of some of the below reasons :

I want to discuss an excellent use of BC user property which lent me a hand to achieve a tricky requirement. The business requirement was to use one applet in two different views. In first view that applet should appear editable while in other it should be Read only. Business did not want to go for cloning the applet as it turns out in making same changes in two different applets and might end up in missing out some changes in either applet. Also the number of fields on the …

Sometime we configure Immediate Post Changes property on the BusComp field object equal to TRUE while no server processing is required in the configuration. This is  an inappropriate Use of Immediate Post Changes for BusComp Fields in Siebel.
Brief introduction of Immediate Post Changes : Immediate Post Changes is an optional property of BusComp field. It has a TRUE or FALSE value.
Definition by Siebel Bookshelf “Field data is posted to the server when the focus moves off of the field and then the data is refreshed. Causes an immediate roundtrip to the …