Creating and using symbolic strings

Developers can use the predefined symbolic strings, making use of the standard library of translated display texts, or create additional custom symbolic strings. We have two options of creating symbolic strings:

  • Manual creation in Siebel Tools
  • Automatic creation using batch scripts provided by Oracle

In the following we will explore both scenarios.

Creating symbolic strings manually

We should follow the procedure described as follows to create custom symbolic string definitions in Siebel Tools. We will create a new symbolic string to be used in a later section of this chapter:

  1. If necessary, use the Options dialog to expose the Symbolic String object type in the Object Explorer window.
  2. Create a new project named AHA ...

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