Oracle PeopleSoft Notes

Introduction      Before we dive into the actual content, if you are not already familiar with Application Data Sets (ADS) , I strongly suggest you review my earlier blog, Application Data Sets – All-in-One Guide *](link), and the PeopleTools 8.62 PeopleBook .      While ADS provides great flexibility for Business Analysts and Application Administrators to set up definitions for moving configuration data between application instances, not all the definitions you might expect are currently available. Oracle’s PeopleSoft application team continues to add new ADS definitions with every Tools and Application PUM release.      In this blog, I’m going to talk about an ADS definition I created based on a Support Community discussion that started back in 2022. Note: The number of available ADS definitions may vary depending on your application - FSCM, HCM, ...

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...