advanced peopletools tips and techniques chris heller, grey sparling solutions
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Advanced PeopleTools Tips and TechniquesChris Heller, Grey Sparling Solutions
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Agenda
• About This Session• Presenter Overview• PeopleTools Tips and Techniques
• Drilling Into Application Designer• Security Drilling / Portal Administration Drilling• Dynamic Tracing or Row Level Security• Enhancing PeopleSoft User Experience• Automating “Save As” Processing• Grab Bag
• Questions
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About This Session
• Hands On• Demo Intensive• Existing Experience with Application Designer is assumed• Focus is on PeopleTools 8.4x
• But techniques can be applied to earlier versions• Don't worry about trying to type code snippets in your
notes!
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More about the Presenter• Chris Heller
• PeopleSoft Employee 1993 - 2005• Director, PeopleTools Product Strategy 1999 – 2005• Currently Chief Architect at Grey Sparling Solutions
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Who is Grey Sparling Solutions?
We Enhance the PeopleSoft Enhance the PeopleSoft ExperienceExperience
• Our Products• Address common PeopleSoft needs.• Leverage your existing PeopleSoft infrastructure.• Enable functionality with minimal cost and effort
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Products that Enhance
Administrative Experience• Operations Productivity• Application Support Productivity• Developer Productivity
Auditing Experience• Compliance and Accountability• Security
End-User Experience• End-user Productivity• Enhanced Reporting
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Application Designer Drilling
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Application Designer Drilling
• Go from online page into underlying objects in Application Designer
• Drill from other environments• Web• Email• Windows Explorer
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Calling ViewObject from PeopleCode
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Application Designer Drilling
• Free Enterprise wide License for Grey Sparling PSIDE Helper for PeopleSoft customers attending this session.
• Send an email to [email protected]• Don't use your hotmail address :-)
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Security Drilling / Portal Administration Drilling
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Understanding Bookmarklets
• Mini Javascript programs that execute in the context of the current page
• See http://www.bookmarklets.com/ for examples• Has to be one line of JavaScript as a browser favorite
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Security Drill Bookmarklet Expanded
var w = window.frames['TargetContent'];
if (!w) { w = window; }
if (w.strCurrUrl.search(/PAGE=([A-Z0-9_]+)/)>0) {
document.location = '/psc/ps/EMPLOYEE/ERP/q/?ICAction=ICQryNameURL=PUBLIC.PT_SEC_PAGES_PLIST&BIND2=' + RegExp.$1;
}
else {
alert('Could not figure out page name.');
}
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Dynamic Tracing
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Dynamic Tracing
• Leverage iScript capabilities to avoid tracing an entire session
Function IScript_PCTraceOff()
SetTracePC(0);
End-Function;
Function IScript_PCTraceAll()
SetTracePC(3596);
End-Function;
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Enhancing PeopleSoft User Experience
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Enhancing PeopleSoft User Experience
• Judicious use of JavaScript on PeopleSoft generated pages
• Multiple ways to add JavaScript• HTML Areas• Web Server plugins• PeopleTools HTML objects
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Minimizing impact with JavaScriptfunction addEvent(obj, evType, fn, useCapture){
if (obj.addEventListener){
obj.addEventListener(evType, fn, useCapture);
return true;
} else if (obj.attachEvent){
var r = obj.attachEvent("on"+evType, fn);
return r;
} else {
alert("Handler could not be attached");
}
}
addEvent(document, "keydown", function (e) { gridKeyHandler(e); }, false);
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function gridKeyHandler(evt) {
evt = getEvent(evt);
var src = getEventSource(evt);
if (typeof src === "undefined") { return; }
var key = evt.keyCode;
if (key === 38 || key === 40) {
var tokens = /(.+)\$(\d+)/.exec(src.id);
var newRowNbr = parseInt(tokens[2]) + ((key === 38) ? - 1 : 1);
var moveToID = tokens[1] + '$' + newRowNbr;
var moveTo = document.getElementById(moveToID);
if (moveTo) { moveTo.focus(); }
}
} { gridKeyHandler(e); }, false);
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Automating “Save As” functionality
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Automating “Save As” Functionality
• Load Project with “Save As” code• Identify/Create Component Interface for Component
• Don't forget about security!
• Copy level 0 Record• Delete all fields except for keys• Change Record type to Work Record
• Create Page with fields from new record• Add “Save As” subpage• Add page to component• Grant security to Save As page for authorized users• Optional
• Add additional PeopleCode logic around “Save As” logic
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Save As PeopleCode
• This gets added to RowInit for your work record
GS_CI_UTILS_WRK.RECNAME = "GS_VNDR_SAVE_AS";GS_CI_UTILS_WRK.BCNAME = "VNDR_ID_EXCEL";GS_CI_UTILS_WRK.PANELNAME = "VNDR_ID1_SUM";
• Optionally copy PeopleCode from delivered “Save As” push button to add application specific logic• Example : Auto-numbering, etc.
&level0RecordNew.GetField(Field.VENDOR_ID).Value = &newCI.GetPropertyByName("VENDOR_ID");
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Questions?
• http://blog.greysparling.com/• Lots of good PeopleTools Tips and Techniques posted