Oracle PeopleSoft Notes

Sectioned Homepages and Dynamic Tiles Introduction:      In PeopleTools release 8.62, Oracle introduced a major change in how you configure and maintain the Landing Pages and Dashboards with Sectioned Homepages and Dynamic Tiles. Until this release PeopleSoft Developer and Portal Administrator has to group all the Tiles/Pagelets and keep it on a portal homepage and they had very minimal/no control on how those Tiles are displayed on the Landing Page. Screen 1: Traditional Homepage But, with new Sectioned Homepages and Dynamic Tiles you can have a homepage something like this,  Screen 2: Modern Homepage     And Dynamic Tile is something you can use Application Classes to control the entire behaviour of the Tiles displayed on the homepage. Be it a Label of the tile or Image you can change it run time. Assume you have specific tile that needs to be displayed on particular week of the month (like Reimbursements) then disappears automatically, without needing th...

 Feed Publishing Framework Introduction to the Feed      According to the latest ( Wiki ), a web feed (or news feed) is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe a channel to it by adding the feed resource address to a news aggregator client (also called a feed reader or a news reader).      This helps user to know changing content without needing to go some other site or do anything. PeopleSoft's Feed Publishing Framework It's one of the module in Oracle PeopleTools . This can provide,  Unified Interfaces for Content Owners - Create, Configure and maintain various types Interfaces for End-Users - Discover feed definitions and related feeds API's for Application Developers - Creating new types and integration with existing features Multi-Lang...

ADS aka Application Data Sets What is ADS?      As the name clearly indicates, ADS is the collection of technology used to migrate application or configuration data between PeopleSoft Applications. Which has three main areas that you needs to understand before actually using it. ADS Definitions - The data set itself that defines the shape of the data that you are planning to export and import between applications. ADS Projects - An IDE project created using ADS definitions with/without criteria for filtering that contains the data Data Migration Workbench - DMW in short, it's an IDE itself to help consultants and business to create, compare and copy projects (export and import)      This gives business users a flexibility to define their data which needs to be managed (or moved) either during upgrades or implementation. Since the IDE is v...