2013PSFT-102620 Mastering PeopleTools: Exploiting PeopleTools Tips and Tricks

2. 2013PSFT-102620Mastering PeopleTools: Exploiting PeopleTools Tips and Tricks Jim EllisPeopleSoft Applied Technology

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5. IT Project Justification Cost Value Low cost, High value

6. Program Agenda • User Experience • Writing Code • System Administration Tips

7. User Experience

8. Great User Experience Evolving from UI to UXHigher Productivity, Information to Action • Interactive • Intuitive • Graphical, Visual • Proactive Delivery • Actionable • Event-based Look and Feel Content Process/ Navigation • Transactional • Business Process Orientation • Role-based Consoles

9. Documented User Experience Techniques • PeopleTools 8.52 and 8.53 have incorporated some exciting new user experience capabilities – Interaction Hub, Dashboards, WorkCenters and more !

10. iScripts PeopleSoft “Swiss Army Knife” • Create Dynamic URL’s • CREF’s that redirect to other targets • Serve Non-HTML pages • Images, JavaScript, CSS, etc • iCal, vCards, etc • Ajax/Flex Data Source

11. iScripts Requirements • Defined in a record that begins with WEBLIB • iScript Function must begin with IScript_ • iScript Function has no Parameters • iScript Function does not Return a Value

12. iScripts Application Designer – Derived/Work Record

13. iScripts Web Library Security – Permission Lists

14. iScripts Application Designer – Derived/Work Record

15. Pagelet Wizard Configurable iScript • Create New Displays • Extend through new Data Types, Display Formats, & Transform Types • Not just for Home Pages • WorkCenters • Related Content • Stand Alone • Ajax

16. Integration Broker Stateless UI • REST services • SOAP services • Serve HTML, JSON, JavaScript, XML, etc • Client-side Mash-up • Benefits: • Can be anonymous • Separate server • Can use HTTP Basic Auth

17. JavaScript Injection Modify Behavior Without Modifying Code • Add JavaScript to the end of a common PT% HTML Definition • PT_PAGESCRIPT • PT_COPYURL • PT_COMMON (if PT 8.50 or higher) • Change Behavior/Appearance of Existing Pages w/o Modifying Pages • Warning: Must be properly managed – easy to introduce bugs…

18. Static JavaScript Application Designer Definition

19. Writing Code

20. Martin Fowler Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”

21. Reference Named Definitions /* Find Definition References command won't find this */ If (&rec.Name = "PERSONAL_DATA") Then /* Too much overhead */ If (&rec.Name = CreateRecord(Record.PERSONAL_DATA).Name) Then /* Best */ If (&rec.Name = Record.PERSONAL_DATA) Then

22. How to Truncate an Array Learn the Language - Really, Really Well ! Local object &Object; Local array of object &ArrObject = CreateArrayRept(&Object, 0); /* OK -- It Works, but DON'T DO THIS!! */ While (&ArrObject.Len > 0) &ArrObject.Pop(); End-While; /* BETTER: 1 line, no loop, but construction overhead */ &ArrObject = CreateArrayRept(&Object, 0); /* BEST: 1 line, no loop */ &ArrObject.Len = 0;

23. PeopleCode Language Binary to Base64 – OLD Way Local JavaObject&f_in= CreateJavaObject("java.io.FileInputStream","c:\img.gif"); Local JavaObject&coder_in= CreateJavaObject("org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64InputStream", &f_in, True); Local JavaObject&reader = CreateJavaObject("java.io.BufferedReader", CreateJavaObject("java.io.InputStreamReader", &coder_in)); Local string &b64Data = ""; Local any &line; While True &line = &reader.readLine(); If (&line <> Null) Then &b64Data = &b64Data | &line | Char(13) | Char(10); Else Break; End-If; End-While;

24. Keep up with Changes Binary to Base64 – NEW Way Local File &f = GetFile("c:\img.png", "R", %FilePath_Absolute); Local string &b64Data = &f.GetBase64StringFromBinary();

25. Complex Logic Bugs love clutter…! &bPosEffdt = False; If &hdr.Name = "POSITION_DATA"And &fld.Name = "EFFDT"Then &bPosEffdt = True; End-If; If (&fld.IsKey) And &bPosEffdt = False Then &where = &where | " and " | &prefix | &fld.Name | %This.GetFieldSQLBind(&fld); End-If;

26. Be Positive Use an Empty “If” - Instead of “Not” If ( &hdr.Name = Record.POSITION_DATA And &fld.Name = Field.EFFDT) Then REM ** Do nothing; Else &where = &where | " and " | &prefix | &fld.Name | %This.GetFieldSQLBind(&fld); End-If;

27. Don’t Be So Negative -  It is harder to comprehend negative logic… If ( Not (&hdr.Name = Record.POSITION_DATA And &fld.Name = Field.EFFDT)) Then &where = &where | " and " | &prefix | &fld.Name | %This.GetFieldSQLBind(&fld); End-If;

28. Administration Tips

29. Troubleshoot with Fiddler HTTP Debugging Proxy Server Application • Report Node • Integration Broker • PeopleSoft Test Framework • User Interface

30. Troubleshoot with Fiddler HTTP Debugging Proxy Server Application

31. Troubleshoot with Fiddler

32. Troubleshoot with Fiddler

33. Modular Infrastructure Design Decoupled Homes • PS_CFG_HOME • Contains the PeopleSoft configuration content like cache, log files • PeopleTools 8.50+ • PS_APP_HOME – Location of the PeopleSoft Application • Install and run the PeopleSoft application independent of PeopleTools. • PeopleTools 8.52+, PeopleSoft Applications 9.0+ • PS_CUST_HOME – Location of Customizations • Designate a specific file system location for customizations (COBOL, SQR, etc.) • PeopleTools 8.53+

34. Modular Infrastructure Design Decoupled PeopleSoft Homes • PS_HOME • Contains only file system artifacts deployed by PeopleTools installation programs • PS_CFG_HOME – Location of Configuration content like cache, log files • PeopleTools 8.50+ • PS_APP_HOME – Location of the PeopleSoft Application • Install and run the PeopleSoft application independent of PeopleTools. • PeopleTools 8.52+, PeopleSoft Applications 9.0+ • PS_CUST_HOME – Location of Customizations • Designate a specific file system location for customizations (COBOL, SQR, etc.) • PeopleTools 8.53+

35. Modular Infrastructure Design Advantage of Decoupled PeopleSoft Homes • Secured Environment • Different owners for PS_APP_HOME and PS_HOME • No cross-writing of the PS_HOME and PS_APP_HOME by restricted users. • Runtime user can have restricted access • Reduced Disk Space Needs • Same installation can be shared by multiple independent runtime users • Patch Application • Simplified due to fewer distinct copies of the installation that must be maintained. • Reuse • Decouple PeopleSoft homes helps run multiple applications use the same PS_HOME • Problem Diagnosis • Easier to isolate the problem • Isolation of Customizations • Allows the PS_HOME and PS_APP_HOME locations to retain only content delivered with the installation program

36. Modular Infrastructure Design PeopleSoft Oracle VM Images • Oracle's PeopleSoft Virtualization Products (Doc ID 1538142.1) • Quick Start Option for PeopleSoft Applications • Portal, HRMS, FSCM, ELM • Two Oracle Linux/Oracle VM Images • PeopleSoft FSCM Database instance running on Oracle Database 11.1.0.7 containing PeopleSoft demo data • PeopleSoft Internet Architecture and Application Server with Oracle Tuxedo 10gR3 and Oracle Weblogic 11g • PeopleSoft OVM Whitepaper Available • http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18128_01/psft/acrobat/OVM_Templates_WhitePaper_2010.pdf

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