Oracle Siebel CRM 8 Developer's Handbook

Controlling business component behavior

When we inspect business component definitions in the Siebel Repository we find that the runtime behavior of a business component is defined by a set of properties. The most important properties are described in the following table.

Property	Description
Table	The name of the base table of the business component. Fields of the business component can reference columns in the base table without the need for a join.
Search Specification	A filter definition—in Siebel Query Language—that is used to fetch only a subset of records from the database.
Sort Specification	A comma separated list of field names and the sort order in which the data should be sorted when the business component queries the database. ...