This blog post is about elevators, losing your car in a multi-storey car park and about Configurable Search.   I've blogged quite a few times now about the amazing new Configurable Search that was introduced in PeopleTools 8.60.  Here's a few links to get you started if you've not seen this before: Configurable Search Online Help Component search Pages are now actual Page Definitions More Search Improvement Fluid now supports standard Search records. All thanks to Configurable Search Recently I discovered a new and undocumented feature in the Search Criteria and Results Opti ..read more

As Fewer Clicks as Possible The BIG Idea When you login to PeopleSoft you should ideally land on a Homepage containing all the data and applications which you most frequently use.  Oracle deliver many Homepages  specific to business areas and of course you can create your own and the end user can even personalise their own. This is the BIG IDEA behind Homepages and Tiles - that the end user finds what they want with as fewer navigational clicks as possible. PeopleSoft Developer Homepage This big idea is supported by other aspects of PeopleTools not just Homepages including ..read more

PeopleTools 8.61 is GA on Cloud Manager and I'm excited to see what's in this release. I've been tracking the release dates of PeopleTools for several years now and have calculated that the average number of days between each major PeopleTools release since 8.50 is on average 479.  As you can see from my data it's hovered around the 450 mark since the heady days of the first Fluid release of 8.54 .  I know.... sad isn't it.  (rumour has it I collect train numbers as well).  All the PeopleTools Ga dates, numbers of days between GA dates and the rolling average along with wh ..read more

The PeopleSoft continuous delivery model releases new versions of software on a regular (published) cadence  (you can see the published schedules on MOS).  PeopleSoft Cloud Manager 16 was released July 2023 and I've had a chance to take this new release for a test drive and just wanted to share some of the highlights. The first obvious change and very helpful improvement is around Environment password management. (1) Cloud Manager now uses OCI Vault for password management.  Cloud Manager itself is installed in OCI using the Oracle Cloud Marketplace image.  This uses OCI ..read more

I recently gave a presentation at the Pathlock Innovation Series entitled 5 Things You Can Do Today To Secure Your PeopleSoft System and I thought I'd follow up with a blog series on each thing. The team at Pathlock (formerly Appsian, formerly Grey Heller) have some great products for PeopleSoft that can help improve the security posture of your system (SSO, MFA, Application Firewall logging and payload monitoring, etc).  I'm not on commission - I just really like the solid engineering behind their products and that they solve real world problems. Thing #1 - Secure PeopleSoft System Acc ..read more

I've been exploring the latest PeopleTools 8.60 release over the last 6 months and written about a few of the highlights on my blog.   October 2022 when 8.60 was released New Features for Developers New Component Search Framework Fluid Search Magic It's April Oracle Critical Patch Update time this week and we're really glad that there are amazing engineers out there finding and reporting vulnerabilities in the Oracle software that we use and rely on. We're even more glad that Oracle product development teams supply patches to resolve these security issues. This is a quarterly cyc ..read more

Just a little fun Christmas project to introduce a few essential concepts in PeopleTools.   Some of us get too much snow!   Some don't get enough or any at all. But, what about your PeopleSoft system?   Does it snow on your Homepage ? How to make it snow in PeopleSoft? This blog post covers the following topics: How to use CSS for animation and how to inject custom CSS into a PeopleSoft Fluid page (I'll cover Classic pages in a future blog) How to add custom HTML into a PeopleSoft page when there's no HTML area or Drop Zone available. How to add our customis ..read more

I recently made an amazing discovery while researching the new PeopleTools 8.60. Oracle continues to add new features allowing customers to configure PeopleSoft rather than to make potentially invasive and high maintenance customisations.  Features like  Event Mapping Drop Zones Page & Field Configurator App Engine Plugins A new addition to this game changing collection of tools is a new Search Framework which includes  a powerful Configurable Search.  You can watch the Video Feature Overview covering the new Search Framework enhancement here. One of the first t ..read more

PeopleTools 8.60 has a few long awaited productivity features for developers.  I say long awaited because most code editors have had these features for a long time and Application Designer is playing a little catch-up.  Still.... I'm not complaining. Application Designer does the job and these few handy Developer productivity features are most welcome for those of us that spend a lot of time editing PeopleCode and SQL. I've just selected these 5 initially and as I explore 8.60 more over the coming weeks I hope to share more on what I like and what I find.  So... in no particul ..read more

Oracle released PeopleTools 8.60 on OCI on Friday 14 October and naturally we at Version 1 were keen to get our hands on this very exciting release.  Since PeopleTools 8.57 Oracle have used PeopleSoft Cloud Manager platform to make the software available and 8.60 is no different. If you don't run PeopleSoft in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) then it's likely that you don't have PeopleSoft Cloud Manager (PCM) (NOTE: PCM only runs on OCI) . But, PeopleSoft Cloud Manager has significant value to organisations wanting to get early access to new PeopleTools releases and you don't need to w ..read more