app designer2 in peoplesoft

Copyright © 2013, mbtechnosolutions. All rights reserved.

Introduction

Mbtechnosolutions- App Designer Fundamental - I

By. Md. Sayeed

I-2 Copyright © 2013, mbtechnosolutions. All rights reserved.

Lesson Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to do

the following:

• List the features of Application Designer

• Discuss the theoretical and physical aspects of a

relational database and App Designer Definitions

• Describe the integrated Platform for various

PeopleSoft tasks

• Understand the goals of the course


Goals of the Course

After completing this course, you should be able to do

the following:

• Identify the major structural components of

App Designer

• Understand field, Record, Page, Component and

Menu

• Registration wizard and its features

• Creating ‘Hello World’ Project by using 8 steps

• Accessibility Pages in PIA


App Designer’s(Integrated Tool) Important definitions/technologies

App Engine File Layout

Application

Package

Component

Interface

People code Component


App Designer Definitions (ALL)

1. Activity

2. Analytic Model

3. Analytic Type

4. App Engine

Program

5. Application

Package

6. Approval Rule

Set

7. Business

Interlink

8. Business

Process

9. Component

10.Component

Interface

11.Field

12.File Layout

13.File Reference

14.HTML

15. Image

16.Menu

17.Message

18.Mobile Page

19.Page

20.Project

21.Record

22.SQL

23.Style sheet


Field


Field

Types of Field

Field Properties

General Translate values

Field Type Field Length Field Labels Field Formats

Fields are the lowest level units in PeopleSoft. Fields are Individual objects defined in PeopleSoft . One or more

Fields grouped to form a record definition. A field can be shared across all record definitions


Field Type

Character (Char): Used for codes in PeopleSoft

Long Character (Long): Used to store comments in PeopleSoft

Number(Nbr) :to hold positive integers and decimal numbers

Signed Number (Sign): holds negative integers and decimals

Date (Date) :hold dates in (MM/DD/YYYY) format

Time(Time) : holds time in (HH:MI:SS.99999) format

Datetime (DtTm) :holds both date and time

Image (Img): to store pictures in PeopleSoft (Jpeg, Bitmap format)

Image Reference(Iref): to change an image dynamically at runtime

using PeopleCode.

Attachment:Maps to a BLOB database type to hold the contents of a

file attachment.


Field Properties


Field Properties

General Properties

Translate Values The Translate Values tab is available only for character fields.

The Translate table is a prompt table, which is similar to an all-purpose data

dictionary, to store values for fields that don’t need individual prompt tables of their own. A Universal table(PSXLATITEM) can be used across all PeopleSoft

Environment to populate Pre-defined drop down values

Field Definition: We can specify purpose of this field

Owner ID: Application Module like HR, Base Benefit

Last Update by: Auto insertion (cannot be changed)

Date/Time: System takes current date and time

By User: System take Logged-in username as updated by user


Translate Value window


Translate Value Fields

Field Value: Use to enter the translate value for the field. The system automatically

sorts values in ascending order as you enter them.

Effective date: Enter the date on which you want this value to take effect.

The default value is today’s date.

Long Name: Enter up to 30 characters

Short Name : Enter up to 10 characters, and if this field left blank, Peoplesoft will

take first 10 Character from Long Name (Automatically)


Querying PSXLATITEM TABLE


Record

Record Types

SQL

SQL View

Dynamic View

Derived/Work

Sub Record

Query View

Temporary Table

Record Properties

General Use

Record Field Properties

Use Edit

A Record is a collection of Fields. A Record definition can be an SQL table,

an SQL View, a Sub record..


Purpose of record Type

An SQL: (Structured Query Language table)

A physical SQL table in the database.

An View: (Structured Query Language view)

Select to define a record definition that corresponds to a SQL view, which is not a physical SQL table in the database

Dynamic View: Select to define a record definition that can be used like a view in

pages and PeopleCode, but is not actually stored as a SQL view.

Dynamic views can provide superior performance in some situations, such as search records

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Purpose of record Type…2

Derived/Work: Select to define the record definition as a temporary workspace to

use during online page processing.

Sub Record: subrecord—a group of fieldsthat are commonly used in multiple record definitions. We can change a group of fields in one place, as opposed to changing each record definition in every record

Query View: To define the record definition as a view that is constructed using

the PeopleSoft Query tool. Before we create the view, PeopleSoft

Application Designer prompts you to save the definition.

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Purpose of record Type…3

Temporary Table: To define the record definition as a temporary table. Temporary tables are used for running PeopleSoft Application Engine batch processes.

Non Standard SQL: To override the standard convention of prefixing PS_ to the record name.

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PeopleTools table to store Record

definition Attributes

PSRECDEFN: Record definitions are stored in a this table. This table stores all

attributes of a Record definition. Like Record type, Audit Record name, Parent

record name, index count, field count. SQL table and SQL View are data based

objects and stored with PS_ prefix in database

PSREFIELD: This table stores the fields that the record definition contains. Each

field with its own edit properties. It may translate value edit, prompt table edit. Or Yes or no edit PSPROGCOUNT: contains the Number of PeopleCode events for the record field.


Record…3

PSINDEXDEFN: This table contains a row for each index for the record definition.

And populated only if the record definition is an SQL table or an SQL view

PSKEYDEFN:This table contains all record field that compose

the index are stored with key sequence


Naming Convention for Records

_TBL: Identifies an edit or prompt table that contains data that is

used for validation,

_VW: Identifies a record definition that is physically implemented

by defining a SQL view.

_DVW: Identifies a dynamic view.

_WRK: Identifies derived work records.

_SBR: Identifies subrecords.

_QVW Identifies a query view.


Naming Convention for Records

_WL: Identifies the record as a worklist record definition

_R: Identifies work record definitions for Structured Query

Report reports.

AUDIT_: Identifies record definitions that store audit

information for other record definitions in the database

WEBLIB_: Identifies record definitions that store internet

scripts. Internet scripts are generally located in FieldFormula

PeopleCode events.

FUNCLIB_: Identifies record definitions that contain

written PeopleCode functions, as opposed to built-in

functions.


Naming Convention for Record

DERIVED_ Identifies shared record definitions (across an

application module or group)that have fields for PeopleCode

events.


Page

• Page serves as user interface to the Application

• Page is collection of record fields with certain

purpose

• Page vary from simple page, pages with scroll bar,

subpages and secondary pages


Component

A component compromises either a single page or a set

of pages that are meant to be served

purpose of functionality and processed as one.

We can manage through Component Definition

Grouping of pages

Search Record (to retrieve data)

Tab Navigations

Links at the bottom of a page

Toolbar at the bottom of a page


Search(component’s feature)


Toolbar


Catalog table for component


PSPNLGROUP


Menu

Menus work as gateway to the application. Menus store Components

(collection of pages)

Menu items are hold a component and provide access to an application panel.

End user has to be given access to a menu item to access it.

Standard Pop-Ups

Used to create Application Panel Used to create context-menu

to page fields(user can access

by right click)

Pre-Define Menu item

File , Edit, View, Go, Language and Help

Useful to bring help when the

user needs it.

We can specify menu group, sequence

of that Menu


This catelog table stores the menu attributes. It contains

PSMENUDEFN


PSMENUITEM

This catalog table stores the individual items in standard or

pop-ups menu. It contains


Registration Process

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