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What Environment Am I in?

Iouri Chadour — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:44:00 +0000

As I was going through some of the sessions on the QUEST NORTHEAST CONFERENCE I noticed on of the presenters mentioning customizing Test environments Main PeopleSoft CSS PSSTYLEDEF so that the users are always able to distinguish between environments.

The solution that I have employ to solve this problem is to modify the PT_BRANDING:BrandingBase class to dynamically display environment name based on the URL, like this:

PT_BRANDING Application package was meant to be used to dynamically customize the look and feel of you application and of course you can do a lot more with this but this is just a very simple example of how easy this can be done.

In order to achieve the above effect all you need is to add code to 2 methods in the class PT_BRANDING:BrandingBase

method GetUniHeaderHTML
method GetUniHeaderHTML_PIA

These methods, as the name suggests are responsible for rendering you Application Portal Header.

/*Iouri Chadour - Added to put Test Environment notification in the header&Request.ContentURI - returns your portal URL in form http://server:port/psp/PSPRC/Left(Right(&Request.ContentURI, 4), 3) - extracts the significant piece to displayon the header*/
&zEnvName = Left(Right(&Request.ContentURI, 4), 3);
&Greeting = &zEnvName | " Environment " | ", UserID:" | %UserId | ", Name: " | %UserDescription;
/* End Mod */

/* This code below is delivered checks for client browser to ensure that Header is displayed correctly */

If &navTheme.isNS4x() Then    &UniHeaderHTMLPIA = GetHTMLText(HTML.PORTAL_UNI_HEADER_NS4X, &Response.GetImageURL(Image.NEW_PS_LOGO), &Response.GetImageURL(Image.NEW_PORTAL_HDR_TBRCRV), " ", " ", &FavoritesHTML, &AddToFavoritesHTML, &HelpHTML, "", &Response.GetImageURL(Image.NEW_PORTAL_HDR_CRV), &Response.GetImageURL(Image.NEW_PORTAL_HDR_BG), &Response.GetImageURL(Image.NEW_PORTAL_HDR_BG), &Response.GetImageURL(Image.NEW_PORTAL_HDR_TBRCRV), &Response.GetImageURL(Image.NEW_PORTAL_HDR_SHD), &Response.GetImageURL(Image.NEW_PORTAL_HDR_TBR), &styleSheet, &homeURL, &startURL, &AddToFavFormHTML, &LogoutURL, MsgGetText(95, 400, "Return Home"), /*20*/MsgGetText(95, 401, "Home"), MsgGetText(95, 402, "Return to Menu"), MsgGetText(95, 403, "Menu"), MsgGetText(95, 408, "Sign out"), &Greeting, &SearchHTML, &ColSpanHTML, &PersonalizeHTML, "", "", &HelpJSHTML, &homepageJS, "", &TabHTML, &WLHTML, &domainScript, &Response.GetJavaScriptURL(HTML.PT_SAVEWARNINGSCRIPT), "", &SaveWarnCrossDomainScript, &Response.GetImageURL(Image.PT_HOME_TAB_ACTIVE_CENTER), &Response.GetImageURL(Image.PT_HOME_TAB_INACTIVE_CENTER), /*40*/&Response.GetImageURL(Image.PT_HOME_TAB_LINE), %Request.ExpireMeta, &CTIHTML, &MCFHTML, &PPMHTML, &Charset);ElseElse    &UniHeaderHTMLPIA = GetHTMLText(HTML.PORTAL_UNI_HEADER_NNS, &Response.GetImageURL(Image.NEW_PS_LOGO), &Response.GetImageURL(Image.NEW_PORTAL_HDR_TBRCRV), "", "", &FavoritesHTML, &AddToFavoritesHTML, &HelpHTML, "", &Response.GetImageURL(Image.NEW_PORTAL_HDR_CRV), &Response.GetImageURL(Image.NEW_PORTAL_HDR_BG), &Response.GetImageURL(Image.NEW_PORTAL_HDR_BG), &Response.GetImageURL(Image.NEW_PORTAL_HDR_TBRCRV), &Response.GetImageURL(Image.NEW_PORTAL_HDR_SHD), &Response.GetImageURL(Image.NEW_PORTAL_HDR_TBR), &styleSheet, &homeURL, &startURL, &AddToFavFormHTML, &LogoutURL, MsgGetText(95, 400, "Return Home"), /*20*/MsgGetText(95, 401, "Home"), MsgGetText(95, 402, "Return to Menu"), MsgGetText(95, 403, "Menu"), MsgGetText(95, 408, "Sign out"), &Greeting, &SearchHTML, &ColSpanHTML, &PersonalizeHTML, "", "", &HelpJSHTML, &homepageJS, MsgGetText(95, 138, "Tool Bar Header"), &TabHTML, &WLHTML, &domainScript, &Response.GetJavaScriptURL(HTML.PT_SAVEWARNINGSCRIPT), "", &SaveWarnCrossDomainScript, &Response.GetImageURL(Image.PT_HOME_TAB_ACTIVE_CENTER), &Response.GetImageURL(Image.PT_HOME_TAB_INACTIVE_CENTER), /*40*/&Response.GetImageURL(Image.PT_HOME_TAB_LINE), %Request.ExpireMeta, &CTIHTML, &MCFHTML, &PPMHTML, &Charset); End-If;

Oracle’s Safari Online – Free Edition?

Iouri Chadour — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:38:12 +0000

It seems that Oracle have caught on with the Virtual Documentation, not only lots of books are available in common formats, but they allow you to format your search results as a book as well. Now you can take just what you need and read it on your screen or printed and stapled. I guess they really want us to know know more about their products!

Here is a link to

Oracle Database Online Documentation 11g Release 1 (11.1)

And here PeopleBooks Link:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12341_01/crm9pbr0_run2/eng/index.htm

Introducing PSUnit – Automate Your Testing

Iouri Chadour — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:05:57 +0000

It seems that PeopleSoft is really becoming object oriented – now it has it’s own automated unit testing tool, like JUnit – this one is called PSUnit. I hope this one is as good as it sounds. Check out the Wiki article below

Introducing PSUnit – Oracle Wiki

You can download the actual project file here:

http://blogs.oracle.com/peopletools/2009/03/psunit_unit_test_framework_for.html

PeopleSoft Debugging Techniques – Part I (Batch)

Iouri Chadour — Sat, 23 May 2009 21:36:34 +0000

I would like to briefly describe some of the PeopleSoft debugging techniques that I have used and found invaluable during development batch and online programs.

SQR Debugging

Flag

Description

-S

Choose Append Option on Parameter List of Process Definition. All of your SQL statements – simple and clear + execution counts

–debug(flag)

Choose Append Option on Parameter List of Process Definition. Put the following statements in your code

#debug(flag) show
#debug(flag) display

this will allow you to display definitions in your log. What is most useful this allows you to specify different levels of tracing using the flag – which can be letters A-Z. Specifying –debug(A-Z) on process definition it allows you to selectively display your debug statements.

COBOL Debugging

Flag

Description

%%PRCSNAME%% %%DBTYPE%%/%%DBNAME%%/

%%OPRID%%/

%%OPRPSWD%%/%%RUNCNTLID%%/

%%INSTANCE%%//%%DBFLAG%%

Choose Override Option on Parameter List of Process Definition. Copy and paste Flags and run your process normally. You will see the trace file in the Process Monitor

App Engine Debugging

Flag

Description

-TRACE 131

Choose Append Option on Parameter List of Process Definition.

Required to start the app engine trace. Does not display much more than message log

-TRACE 131

-TOOLSTRACEPC 2048

Choose Append Option on Parameter List of Process Definition.

Adding TOOLSTRACEPC with a number causes detailed PeopleCode code trace – be careful those can get very large and significantly impact performance.

-TRACE 131

-TOOLSTRACESQL 31

Choose Append Option on Parameter List of Process Definition.

Adding

TOOLSTRACESQL

with a number causes detailed SQL trace. This option should always be used when tracing – app engine are all about SQL.

App engine can also be debugged on the client. In order to do this you need to configure trace setting in the configuration manager:

Open App Engine program in the Application Designer, press the Run Program icon and enter the Run Control ID and Process Instance Number (You should have an existing process instance and run control id defined online). Click ‘OK’ to run the App Engine process in two-tier mode.

If you would like to read about debugging in more details here is an excellent overview presentation by Kai Markowitz from CSU:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/15756180/Tracing-Debugging-in-People-Tools-84x-CMS411

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