http://www.scribd.com/doc/25496613/

Enjoy!

https://www.samplecode.oracle.com/

Aside from the obvious PSOPRDEFN table there is PSACCESSLOG – this table has OPRID, LOGIPADDRESS, LOGINDTTM, LOGOUTDTTM columns that give you information about user sign on activity. LOGIPADDRESS will contain the RemoteAddr property  of  %Request object, which is also useful in case you validate user ip address at the sign on. The only problem this could pose is in case your users are behind a single or multiple gateways that perform NAT. Then the value of this field would contain those NATed ip addresses and not the actual user ip addresses.

I would like to start from the end and the good news for all Oracle PeopleSoft application users – Oracle plans to maintain PeopleSoft application for some time even though there are plans to try and come up with mysterious Fusion Applications, but no one knows when, where or what modules would Oracle to start with.

Because Oracle does not seem to be a able to eliminate all of the product lines it has acquired over the years – the long term strategy is to keep the products but heavily invest into integration solutions – Fusion Middleware – and expand the suite of included product and toolsets.

Crystal Reports – currently part of the PeopleSoft , was recently purchased by rival SAP, will still be supported,  but if you would like to have less problems with upgrades and next version you should try and use XML Publisher.

PeopleTools 8.50 – the official “not written” word is 3rd quarter of 2009 and I really hope this is true, because after seeing the new suite in action,as in presentation in my earlier posts, we’ve been all waiting to get our hands on and give it a try. Just a quick note – as long as you are on version 8.4+ you should be able to upgrade to new tools to utilize the latest and greatest of the new platform – new sleek look, AJAX , partial page refreshes and new integrations.

All of the further slides I am including are borrowed from the presentation by Tom Vassallo.

Here is a diagram that outlines the Application compatibility and Tools Releases:

Furthermore , folks at Oracle PeopleSoft added some cool features like iPhone apps for Expenses:

Remember there was this great BI product Hyperion Essbase, oh sorry – Oracle System 11. Well the good news for all of us that are using these tools, according to the new strategy – “unite and conquer” – Oracle is throwing some free features with Tools:

The icing on this cake are ability to integrate with social networking, RSS feeds:

To stay with current trend Oracle is also starting to add SaaS solutions for all of the lines of products. I am sure we’ll see more of those appear soon.

To finish this post here is the official roadmap for PeopleTools and Application 9.1

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;

peoplesoft_workspace_and_pt850.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)

Also please see our previous post about Tools 8.50 overview

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

Take a look at this great post by  Peter Slager about upcoming PeopleTools release

And here you can find the latest about PeopleTools 8.50 from Oracle – just an overview of things to come:

Release Value Propositions available

By matthew.haavisto on May 14, 2009 1:58 PM

Two new release value propositions are now available: one covers PeopleTools 8.50, another covers Enterprise Portal 9.1. Both documents provide an overview of the value proposition for the enhancements that are planned for PeopleTools 8.50 and Enterprise Portal 9,1. Both are intended to help you assess the business benefits of these products and to plan your information technology (IT) projects and investments.

PeopleTools RVP
Enterprise Portal RVP

And if you like pictures – then the older, but still valid presentation from last year’s OpenWorld would still do a goo job:

By jeff.robbins on September 24, 2008 5:26 AM

During Part 2 of the PeopleTools Roadmap presentation at OpenWorld, I promised to post the presentations and demo viewlets we used. The presentations are in PDF file and I’ll upload the viewlets later today.

Here is Part 1: Download file

Here is Part 2: Download file

Enjoy!

PeopleTools Roadmap Presentation at OpenWorld on Tuesday, Sep 23 (PeopleSoft Technology Blog)

Tags: PeopleTools, PeopleSoft

PeopleSoft natively supports LDAP v1 ,2 and Active Directory Protocols. It also supports Profiles Synchronization.Please see diagram below that I have borrowed from the document hosted in ITToolBox, that gives an essential overview of PeopleSoft & environment security layers.

In case you are looking to do LDAP implementation and it can be fitted in to diagram below and company allows your PS server to access LDAP or AD (Active Directory) repository – you are in luck – the setup should be a snap.

Here is Oracle Red Paper LDAP Authentication with PeopleTools, that has lots of detail about setting LDAP authentication within PeopleSoft. This document has better and more condensed information than that in PeopleBooks. This document contains screenshots of configurations, how to test and more.

Here is the presentation I have found on the Cal Poly WebSite , created by good folks – Darren Kraker and Ken Sperow. It gives a good overview of Oracle Collaboration Suite and PeopleSoft security principles

Integrating PeopleSoft and Oracle Collaboration Suite into uPortal

Very Important Note about custom security implementation, e.g. Tivoli , Reverse Proxy Servers etc.

• Please remember that authentication would also need to be changed in the client software that accesses application in 3-tier mode (using app server ) – App Designer, nVision. You would still be able to access your application using 2-tier mode. In case you do have to change authentication for nVision, App Designer – lookup customizing psuser.dll in PeopleBooks. This is what client tools use for authentication.
• You might want to consider configuring 2nd webserver point of entry, that would utilize built in security for some of the system ids.
• Journal Spreadsheet Upload – in case users are utilizing this simple, yet very convenient tool – you might need to customize VBA Macros to properly authenticate
• Pay special attention to accessing reports through report manager and process Monitor, you might need to change a few lines of code there too.

“Branding code resides in two different application packages/classes. For standard PeopleSoft Branding, it’s PT_BRANDING:BrandingBase.”

Enjoy and let me know if you have any questions.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/16058292/PeopleSoft-GUI-Tips-Tricks