Understand the latest People tool 8.59 new features and enhance your PeopleSoft development skills.
When a new version of PeopleTools, such as 8.59, is released, PeopleBooks 8.59 is typically updated to reflect the changes, enhancements, and new features introduced in that version.
In People tool 8.59, PeopleSoft delivered a new homepage user interface that is very interactive and easy to use. Users can navigate the system very easily. Now, Global search appears on top of the homepage in the center of the header, and favorites and most recently visited items can be accessed through the left sidebar with one click. Navigation Panel displays on the right-hand side of the homepage itself.
Updates to the user interface in PeopleTools 8.59 include enhancements to the Homepage as well as Menu and Content Search features like Real-Time Indexing, Quick Access Bar, Notifications Panel, and the NavBar & Menu. With these enhancements, the search can now be the primary means of navigation in your PeopleSoft systems. On the homepage, you’re able to utilize the quick access bar on the left which provides one-click access to your favorites and most recently visited items.
Fig 1: Home page
In the Global Search, the Menu category is selected by default. All search results will display based on the recently visited items combined with suggestions weighted by other users’ activity in the system with different image icons.
Fig 2: Global search
The PTPORTALREGISTRY search index (the Menu category in the Global Search bar) now incorporates elements of the full navigation path and search keywords along with the menu item label and description. Combined with site-wide synonyms, search becomes a powerful tool for quickly finding and navigating to menu items in the PeopleSoft System.
Recently visited and favorites items can be accessed by the left side bar or Quick access bar. On desktop browsers and device widths greater than 680 pixels, the quick access bar is displayed on the left. On a smartphone in portrait orientation, it is displayed at the bottom of the page.
Fig 3: Recent viewed in quick access bar
Now, Notifications are displayed on the homepage itself in the right side panel. On Mobile devices, the Notifications panel can be opened by clicking the Notifications button in the banner. The panel displays your actionable notifications in one section, and your alerts in another. Unread notifications are highlighted in bold.
Fig 4: Notification Menu
Images of Recently Visited, Favorites, and Menu tiles and items have been changed. Menu folders & items are displayed in alphabetical order by default though; it can be personalized by user or system-wide. Breadcrumbs in the NavBar allow navigating back up the menu hierarchy to a menu folder, including the root folder.
Fig 5: NavBar and Menu
On Exit Application Engine Plug-in allows executing certain programme based on the condition at the end of the process.
In PeopleTools 8.59, event mapping has been updated as a fluid navigation collection.
In PeopleTools 8.59, PeopleSoft uses Kibana 7.10. Previous version (7.0) of Kibana dashboards or visualizations are fully compatible with Kibana 7.10. The existing dashboards can be deployed and viewed using Kibana 7.10. Kibana can directly access from a new menu item – Reporting Tool > Kibana with Kibana Administration role.
The Kibana updated features in PeopleTools 8.59 new features include Kibana, External Data Integration, Pivot Grid, and Composite Query Viewer. PeopleSoft search framework has been upgraded to the 7.10 version of Elasticsearch, and the Analytics platform has also been upgraded to Kibana version 7.10 and Logstash version 7.10. The search framework provides flexibility to filter data in a visualization.
With PeopleTools 8.59, External data can be integrated with the PeopleSoft system. A New Data Source type ‘External Data’ has been added to the search definition that allows PeopleSoft to integrate the external data.
Previously, filtered data could only be exported as an Excel file, but now data, as well as charts, can be exported as a PDF file. This mechanism is available in Fluid mode only.
With PeopleTools 8.59, multiple filters can be selected and can be applied all at once in the Pivot Grid viewer. This option is available only at the user view level.
Chart thresholds, which were introduced in Peopletool 8.58, can be represented as block or gradient in the Pivot Grid Viewer in Peopletool 8.59.
Chart colors can be changed based on the organization level or demand.
Option to display chart values on the chart can be enabled, which is now available on both Pivot Grid Viewer as well as Pivot Grid Wizard.
The applied filters would be retained if a user navigates to a URL or Related Action and then return to the Pivot Grid. However, any changes that have been made to the Pivot Grid database would not be updated on the retained filter(s).
In PeopleTools 8.59, Composite Query can view from the Composite Query Viewer, which is a read-only version of the Composite Query Manager. Composite Query Viewer enables security administrators to limit users with the role of Composite Query User to search for and view composite queries. The Output formats are HTML, Excel, and XML only.
Data masking can be enabled or disabled for PeopleSoft Query using a global property on the Query Administration page.
With PeopleTools 8.59, the Notification Administration component consolidates the configuration and administration of notifications:
In addition, by implementing PeopleTools-delivered application packages and classes, Custom Peoplecode programs can be created:
The Customization Repository is accessed from the Update Manager Homepage. Below is the enhanced Customization Repository:
PUM Automated Updates provide the ability to automatically download and apply PRPs to the PUM source. Define a change package, create the change package, and apply the source only steps can be configured from here. This feature will be available for PUM Images delivered on PeopleTools 8.59. The following components are used to set up and schedule automated updates.
PeopleSoft system allows generating SQR reports on the configuration made through Drop Zones, Event Mapping, and Application Engine plug-in. These reports allow us to managing keep track of configuration. These reports can be managed as record which can we referred to decide to change or remove configuration at some point. The configuration details appears in an unified compare report, so these report are the best means to capture the details about configuration in the PeopleSoft system.
Provider-only REST services can be created and naming standard can be enforced by redesigned Application Services Framework. These Application services comply with Oracle standards for a REST API. Application services can be created or modified by the Application Service. Below are the necessary links that are includes by the Designer:
PeopleTools 8.59 provides the ability to set up MCF inbound email using OAuth2 authentication through Azure.
Following are the enhancements in the activity guide:
Users can now dynamically set their screen reader preference:
Note: The new ACCESSMENU system personalization determines whether the Enable Screen Reader Mode link is displayed to all users by default.
Oracle cloud infrastructure provides cloud object storage to a selection of file repositories for file attachments and process scheduler report distribution. OCI object storage gives the advantage of scalability, faster data retrieval, fewer limitations & cost-effectiveness.
The Configuration Specialist tile definitions have been updated with PeopleTools-based permissions appropriate for the users to be granted access to those tiles.
Note. The Configuration Specialist homepage definition is delivered in PeopleSoft application images.
Author: Dhruv Pratap, Peoplesoft Consultant
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