The organization of the views and folders follows the hierarchy of the Siebel Repository: Business Objects and Business Components. Each view uses one or more Business Components from the Repository to create a view containing relevant business information. Application View field names are the same as the field names of the Business Components.

You can use application views to filter Siebel data either with Siebel filters or with TDV filtering, depending on the view and the capabilities of Siebel. Siebel supports simple filters in a WHERE clause.