Configuring BC and Data source – EBC

Next step in the process is to create and configure BC

* Creating Business Component

Steps to create business component are same as creating any other business component. You can create it through Business Component wizard and choose the table created in previous steps.

* Configuring Business Component

There are two important things that you will need to do this BC for it to work.

• Uncheck the Log Changes property for this BC
  
• Provide Data Source Name in Data Source Field
  

Once you configure these details then you can use this BC in your configuration just like any other BC. You can base your applets on this BC and create views.

Your configuration in the Siebel tools is now over. There is just one more thing that you need to do, to make all this work.

* Creating Data Source

• Create a data source (with same name as you have specified in table and BC) that will connect to external database.
  I am not going to go into details of data source. I have written posts giving overview of data source and how to create data source.

You need to create an entry of this newly created data source in your CFG file for dedicated client to work and you need to create subsystem in Server Configuration for thin client to work.

* Creating an entry in CFG file:

• Open your client CFG file.
• Copy and paste details of your [ServerDataSrc] section in CFG
• Rename this data source to the name that you have mentioned in tools.
  (As in our example your data source entry name is ContactEBC. So, your new section will start from [ContactEBC] as shown below)
  

Now your EBC is ready to work through dedicated client.

In next few posts I will be discussing how to configure subsystem to make it work with thin client and Solutions of the problems I faced while working with EBC.