DefaultAppletFocus user property

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Today Anisur Khan is sharing his problem that he faced after the application was upgraded from Siebel 7.5 to Siebel 8.1 and also how he achieved the solution using DefaultAppletFocus user property.

In Siebel 7.5 the default focus in Order Detail View was on the Order header applet, however in Siebel 8.1 the default focus was on the line items applet due to which when I used the F9 functionality to send email the dropdown did not show values and sometimes didn’t work at all.

First I checked the settings in the Help > User preferences > Outbound Communications and set the Default Meassage Type to “ HTML” but it didn’t help and finally I was able to solve this problme by using DefaultAppletFocus user property.

Details:

DefaultAppletFocus user property : Allows us to set the applet within a view that should receives focus by default i.e before user changes the focus to any other applet by clicking on it.

As per Siebel the applet to receive the default focus is decided by the “Default Applet Focus” property of a view. If this property is left as blank then the default applet is decided on the basis of the “Type” property in
The Screen > Screen View of the Siebel tools:

• If the View Type is Detail View, focus is placed on the second applet, if the view consists of two or more applets.
• If the view type is any other type, or there is only one applet on the view, focus is placed on the first applet..

Usage:

Name: DefaultAppletFocus
Value: The name of an applet in the view, not enclosed in quotes.

After defining this user property on the view F9 functionality started working as expected.