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PeopleTools 8.56 Feature Overview

By David Pigman

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Your Presenter

David Pigman Technical Architect dpigman@spearmc.com 866-SPEARMC x804 www.SpearMC.com

Certified professional with over twenty years of consulting experience in all phases of

large scale implementations

Leads SpearMC’s Application Development and Technical Infrastructure initiatives.

PeopleSoft Integration Expert and Developer

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Objectives • PeopleTools Portal Technology

• PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface

• Mobile Application Platform

• PeopleCode

• PeopleSoft Application Designer

• PeopleSoft Search Technology

• Platform Support Enhancements

• System Administration Tools Enhancements

• Reporting and Analytic Tools Enhancements

PeopleTools Portal Technology

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PeopleTools Portal Technology

• Classic Plus

• Contextual Fluid Dashboards

• Guest User Access (hide the logout link)

• The Wizard (Image type tiles)

• Unified Navigation

• Web Profile Configuration (new options)

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PeopleTools Portal Technology

• Event Mapping

• The PeopleCode event mapping feature first delivered in

PeopleTools 8.55 has proven valuable in keeping customizations

separate from the delivered source. This feature allows

developers to associate custom application class PeopleCode with

components so that the custom PeopleCode executes before or

after any delivered PeopleCode

• New Page Activate and FieldChange events

• Miscellaneous Enhancements

• Page and Field Configurator

PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface

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PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface

• Personalize Fluid Homepages on the Small Form

Factor (mobile)

• Label Changes on Property Dialog Boxes

• Actions List Button (Formally known as “hamburger”)

• Form Factor Trace Option (now hidden)

Mobile Application Platform

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Mobile Application Platform

• Custom Layout

• Exception Layout

• Sub Page/Containers

• PeopleTools Delivered Layouts

PeopleCode and PeopleSoft Application Designer

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PeopleCode & PeopleSoft Application Designer

• PeopleCode

• PeopleCode API Reference

• Extended the Notification framework capabilities

• PeopleSoft Application Designer

• Classic Plus Component Setting

• Input Only Fields (Masking Sensitive Field Values)

• Paragraph Page Control Property

ElasticSearch

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ElasticSearch

• Chunking Support

• Perform indexes on data based on date range

• Parallel Processing for indexing

• Clusters in ElasticSearch for redundancy

• Monitoring Elasticsearch Using PeopleSoft Health

Center

Platform Support Enhancements

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Platform Support Enhancements

• See Oracle's PeopleSoft PeopleTools new Features

Overview and Platform Certifications

System Administration Tools Enhancements

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System Administration Tools Enhancements

• Support for Oracle Documents Cloud as Content

Source

• Role and Permission List Aliases

• PeopleSoft-Only Single Signon Enhancements

• Extra Token ID

• SSL/TLS Encryption for Client and Server

Communications

• PSCBO_STATS Package for PeopleSoft

Optimization

PUM - Lifecycle Management Tools Enhancements

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PUM - Lifecycle Management Tools Enhancements

• Change Package Definition Merge

• Change Assistant

• Run multiple jobs at the same time

• PeopleTools Patches & Installation

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Lifecycle Management Tools Enhancements

• Analytic-Driven Interface

PeopleSoft Test Framework

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PeopleSoft Test Framework

• Query-Based Testing

• Support for Testing with Charts

• Drag and Drop Functionality

Reporting and Analytic Tools Enhancements

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Lifecycle Management Tools Enhancements

• Applying PeopleSoft Regional Settings

Personalizations to BI Publisher Reports

• Support for IANA Time Zones in BI Publisher

Reports

• Support for Unicode Characters to Specify Paths and

Filenames for External Attachments

• Generating Empty Connected Query Reports

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