Siebel Open UI: Portlets Reloaded
As described in an article earlier last year, Siebel Open UI enables us to display individual applets as "portlets" in any web portal. As of the early versions 8.1.1.9 and 8.1.1.10, this was supported but the functionality was to be considered "basic". As of Innovation Pack 2013, there have been some major enhancements around the possibility to display data from Siebel Open UI in external applications . In the following article, I would like to point out these enhancements: Standalone Applets One of the enhancements in IP 2013 is the ability to display applets in external web pages as "standalone" applets, that is without a surrounding view. However, we still have to establish the context to a business object, which we do via a new applet user property named Business Object . So in order to prepare an applet for display as a standalone applet, you must set that applet user property in Siebel Tools and compile the applet. Siebel Tools: Quote List Applet wi...