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View Project PeopleCode without Importing Project Files

If you are a PeopleSoft developer you have probably spent countless hours on developing or modifying an application using PeopleCode and the application designer. Usually, you export the project to a file so that you can take them with you if you should leave your current project. So, what if you wanted to look at your code without importing the project? Below is a great tip/tool from a colleague of mine that will allow you to view your project PeopleCode through your browser. Let's assume tha… Continue

Added by Derek Tomei on September 29, 2009 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

SQL Developer - An Awesome Free TOAD-Like Tool

If you are a developer and use SQL Plus or if you want to use TOAD but can't get your company to fork over the money for a license, you should grab Oracle's free SQL Developer tool. It's a free and fully supported graphical tool for database development. You can browse database objects, run SQL statements and SQL scripts, and edit and debug PL/SQL statements. You can also run any number of provided reports, as well as create and save your own. This application has proven to be a very good tool… Continue

Added by Derek Tomei on September 22, 2009 at 8:08am — No Comments

PeopleTools 8.50 Now Available!

It's been a long time coming and I am very excited about the new release of PeopleTools 8.50. This release is available to customers running all of the recent PeopleSoft applications (eg. 8.8, 8.9 and 9.0) and is the foundation to the 9.1 applications. There are many enhancements in this release that improve the users experience including Dynamic user interfaces that include partial page refreshes without having to take a trip to the server, mouse-over pop-up windows, improved menu's and naviga… Continue

Added by Derek Tomei on September 22, 2009 at 7:42am — No Comments

2010- The perfect storm for the PeopleSoft community

2010- The perfect storm for the PeopleSoft community The PeopleSoft community is building towards a perfect storm in 2010. There are many factors contributing to this growth and many different events occurring simultaneously which will lead to 2010 being a huge year for PeopleSoft customers, consulting firms, and VARS. Unlike the movie, this perfect storm will be fun!! Let’s start with the upcoming product releases and explain what they will accomplish and how the timing creates a cyclone of a… Continue

Added by Patrick Donlin on September 16, 2009 at 5:23pm — 3 Comments

Upgrading Like a PeopleSoft Pro - Part VI

Defining Your Test Strategy Although, you will not be performing the testing until a later time in your upgrade project, you will need to define the testing strategy before the project begins or soon after. Your testing strategy will provide the basis for understanding how you will test your newly upgraded applications. There are several points within the technical upgrade process where your developers will unit test programs, but the majority of testing will occur after your application… Continue

Added by Derek Tomei on June 16, 2009 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

Upgrading Like a PeopleSoft Pro - Part V

This is the fifth in a series of articles: Upgrading Like a PeopleSoft Pro. So far, we have discussed the various requirements and information gathering stages, we have also discussed the Business Fit Gap Analysis of our current version of the application and the new release of the application. Now we will discuss Planning, Planning, and Planning. Did I mention Planning? Now that you have gathered this enormous amount of information and performed your business fit gap analysis, you should be kn… Continue

Added by Derek Tomei on June 11, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Upgrading Like a PeopleSoft Pro - Part IV

This is the fourth in a series of articles: Upgrading Like a PeopleSoft Pro. So far, we have discussed the various requirements and information gathering stages. Here is where we start to roll up are sleeves and do some analysis against our current version of the application and the new release of the application. This is called a Business Fit Gap Analysis. Got Customizations? Well if you have a lot of customizations and you are embarking upon an upgrade from an earlier release, this tas… Continue

Added by Derek Tomei on June 8, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

soft copy of record layout

is there a way to produce a file of the record definitions, similar what is displayed in application designer Continue

Added by Bob Pacca on June 4, 2009 at 11:31am — 2 Comments

Upgrading Like a PeopleSoft Pro - Part III

This is the third in a series of articles: Upgrading Like a PeopleSoft Pro. So far, I have discussed acquiring pertinent upgrade information, and training your staff. Now, I would like to discuss your Business Requirements and Critical Success Factors. According to our PeopleSoft Pros Poll, many companies have not started or are still in the planning stages of their upgrade. Reading these articles will help you along your journey. Do you know what the Critical Success Factors (CSF) are for your… Continue

Added by Derek Tomei on June 4, 2009 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

Upgrading Like a PeopleSoft Pro - Part II

This is the second in a series of articles: Upgrading Like a PeopleSoft Pro. In our previous post, I discussed the first and one of the most important steps: "Acquire all pertinent upgrade information and materials" Now, I would like to make mention of another crucial step in the upgrade process. This step has to deal with Training Your Team. Your PeopleSoft upgrade project team members will require training at one level or another. Furthermore, these team members are the key to a fast and smoo… Continue

Added by Derek Tomei on June 1, 2009 at 2:00am — No Comments

Upgrading PeopleSoft like a Pro

A PeopleSoft upgrade is no minor feat. There is a lot of planning and decision making that must go into the upgrade process. Does my current hardware meet the minimum requirements? Do I need to upgrade my O/S? How about my Database Software? Also, there are many other factors to consider like what people will be involved? What testing strategy will be used? What kind of training is needed and how many people need to go? The bottom line is that planning is the essential Key to a successful upgrad… Continue

Added by Derek Tomei on May 28, 2009 at 3:42pm — No Comments

Peopletools Tables used for Projects and Compare Reports

I am trying to match new patch objects to objects in previous projects that we have modified. This will allow me to identify our work units that are effected. Our work Unit relates to the menu item it affects. I also would like to find out if the compare reports are stored in tables so that I can only find the objects we have modified as well. Anyone help. Continue

Added by Kevin Spletter on May 21, 2009 at 9:15pm — 2 Comments

SQR Processes Error

PeopleTools 8 - PSSQR Copyright (c) 1988-2003 PeopleSoft, Inc. All Rights Reserved Error! SQR Failed To Process *** *** System Error Code 64 ****** PS_StartProc: CreateProcess failed: cmd = K:\bin\sqr\MSS\binw\sqrw cwd = D:\pt84\appserv\prcs\FSC84PRD *** The Crystal reports are still running okay. We have stopped and restarted both the appl and process schedulers and we still are getting the error on ALL SQR processes. Continue

Added by Pamela Broussard on May 19, 2009 at 10:12am — No Comments

Peoplesoft Treasury functional implementation

I manage a treasury departement in french military equipement company. During two years, I was backup product lead on Peoplesoft Treasury. I'm european expert and I implement treasury on several countries (France, Belgium, Neederlands, UK, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Austria, USA, Singapor, Honk Kong and Australia). For each country, I know the banking culture and treasury practise. Peoplesoft Treasury Peoplesoft treasury manage 3 modules : * Module 1 - CM : Cash managemen… Continue

Added by de lassence on April 30, 2009 at 5:30am — No Comments

XML Publisher in PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.48 and above

With the release of PeopleTools 8.48, Oracle added several new enhancements and has delivered and certified the integration of the Fusion Middleware Product Suite with Tools 8.48. This gives you additional technology options and enhancements that basically provide a bridge to Oracle's future application architecture. Oracle's future architecture is of course, based on the Service Oriented Architecture of its Fusion technology. Additionally, PeopleTools 8.48 is now capable of supporting 64-bit pr… Continue

Added by Derek Tomei on March 26, 2009 at 4:14pm — No Comments

Big Win for Functional Teams with PeopleSoft's Application Workflow Engine (AWE) in 9.0

If you or your Functional HR Team worked with any of the PeopleSoft eApplications such as ePerformance, eCompensation, eProfile, or eDevelopment, then you know the frustration of making changes or customizations to the workflow. Well, in HCM 9.0 all of that just became easier. PeopleSoft introduced the Approval Workflow Engine (AWE) in HCM version 9.0. It was partially there in version 8.9, however, it was not accessible via a menu. It was first created within SCM and eProcurement but later ada… Continue

Added by Derek Tomei on March 26, 2009 at 11:00am — 2 Comments

PeopleSoft as a Password Authentication "Ticket" Server

My post Generating an AuthToken for SwitchUser demonstrates how to acquire and expire PeopleSoft authentication tokens. Using this approach, you could hook any custom application into the PeopleSoft security model, allowing PeopleSoft to manage security for many of your custom enterprise applications. Continuous token (ticket) validation could be implemented through a very simple web service that calls… Continue

Added by Jim Marion on March 23, 2009 at 11:58pm — No Comments

GZip Compress Static Files

My PeopleSoft web server contains several JavaScript and CSS files that I embed in PeopleSoft pages using the various techniques described in this blog. Unlike files served by the PeopleSoft application, the web server does not GZip compress these static text files. Until recently, I used the GZip ServletFilter described by Jayson Falkner in his post Two Servlet Filters Every Web Application Should Have. But GZipping eve

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Added by Jim Marion on March 23, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Generating an AuthToken for SwitchUser

As the name implies, the PeopleCode SwitchUser function allows developers to switch the logged in Operator ID from one user to another. For security reasons, you can only switch identities if you either have another user's operator ID and password or another user's valid authentication token (AuthToken). While I'm sure there are numerous uses for this function, here are my top two:

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Added by Jim Marion on March 23, 2009 at 1:00am — No Comments

Test Driven Development for PeopleSoft

The PeopleTools blogging team just released an unsupported tool for test driven PeopleCode development: PSUnit. The blog post contains the PSUnit source code and a document that describes how to use PSUnit to test drive PeopleCode development. If you are familiar with one of the xUnit frameworks (jUnit, nUnit,… Continue

Added by Jim Marion on March 21, 2009 at 1:21pm — No Comments

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