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Configuring Drilldown On A Form Applet

This document discusses how to configure drill down functionality on a form applet in Siebel, which is normally only possible on list applets. It explains that while a hyperlink field is not possible, a button can achieve the same result by calling the GotoView function and passing the view name and business object instance. It then provides an example requirement and solution to link from an Opportunity form to the associated Quote record that has the primary flag set to true.

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Configuring Drilldown On A Form Applet

This document discusses how to configure drill down functionality on a form applet in Siebel, which is normally only possible on list applets. It explains that while a hyperlink field is not possible, a button can achieve the same result by calling the GotoView function and passing the view name and business object instance. It then provides an example requirement and solution to link from an Opportunity form to the associated Quote record that has the primary flag set to true.

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Configuring drilldown on a Form Applet

I bet many you would immediately think it is not possible to configure a drill down on a form applet but I would say, Technically it is possible. It wouldnt be usual Hyperlink on a field that we have on a list applet but it would work the same way. First lets analyze the functionality of usual drilldown that we have on a list applet. You configure a field to have a drilldown. In UI that field value starts acting as Hyperlink and clicking on that Hyperlink takes you to another view and important thing to note is that it maintains the context and you land up on the same record on which you drilldown. Now, in form applet is not possible to configure the field value to appear as Hyperlink but it is possible to have a button which will act in same way. How is it possible? There is a function provided by Siebel GotoView that can help us to achieve this functionality. GotoView elaborated! GotoView function accepts two arguments View Name and Business Object Instance for example
GotoView(Opportunity Detail View,OptyBO)

The second argument (BO Instance) is optional but if you dont provide that you will not be able to maintain the context which means that you will not land up on the same record. BO Instance which is passed should be an inactive BO instance you cannot use ActiveBusObject function to get BO Instance. Lets see this functionality in action with help of a requirement Requirement: I have Opportunity (Parent) and Quotes (Child). I want to have a button on Opportunity Form Applet with caption (My Primary Quote) on click of the button user should be taken to Quotes View and Quote which has Primary Flag set to true should be visible. Primary Flag is just a boolean base field. Solution: I am assuming that you have already exposed a button with MethodName as ShowPrimaryQuote. I am just going to provide the code.
if(MethodName == ShowPrimaryQuote) {

var QuoteBO:BusObject = TheApplication().GetBusObject(Quote); var QuoteBC:BusComp = QuoteBO.GetBusComp(Quote); with(QuoteBC) { SetViewMode(AllView); ClearToQuery(); ActivateField(OpptyId); // Field that stores Opportunity Id ActivateField(PrimaryFlag); SetSearchSpec(OpptyId,this.GetFieldValue(Id)); SetSearchSpec(PrimaryFlag,Y); ExecuteQuery(ForwardOnly); if(FirstRecord()) { GotoView(Quote Detail View,QuoteBO); } } }

This code will take the user to Quote detail view if it is able to find Primary Quote for that opportunity otherwise it will do nothing. You can modify it to give an error message or some other processing if required.

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