Appplication Designer

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Application Designer


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Agenda:

Introduction

Insight into Application Designer


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Introduction

PeopleSoft Application Designer is the core developmenttool used to build and modify PeopleSoft applications.PeopleSoft Application Designer enables you to build avariety of definitions, including:

Fields.

Records (Tables).

Pages.

Components.

Menus.

PeopleCode.

SQL.


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Working with App Designer: ApplicationDevelopment

Application development is a systematicprocess. Between the design andimplementation of the application, you

define and build application definitions,establish relationships, implementsecurity, and test every aspect

thoroughly. When developing in thePeopleSoft environment, it is helpful tolook at the development phase as an eightstep process.


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Application Designer


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Four Phases


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Understanding the Eight Steps ofApplication Development

Design the application.

Create field definitions.

Create record definitions.

Build the application data tables.

Create page definitions.

Define components.

Register the components. Test the application.


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Planning Phase


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Data design phase


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User interface phase


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Testing phase


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Step One Designing theApplication Create a development plan.


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Step Two Creating FieldDefinitions Fields are standalone objects in

Peoplesoft.


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Step Three Creating RecordDefinitions People Tools-based applications are

table-based systems.

Two layers of information: The record level: Determine the structure of the

database table .

The field level: Determine the characteristics of thefields and any online processing that occurs behind the

scenes when a user enters data.


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Step Four Building the Tables

Once you define the record definition youmust create or build the underlying SQLtables that house the application data that

your users will enter online in theproduction environment.

Unless this step is taken, there is no table

in the database to accept application data.


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Step Five Creating PageDefinitions Pages are the user interface for the

application where data is presented to theusers and enable them to enter data into

the application data table created in theprevious step.


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Step Six Creating ComponentDefinitions Component definitions represent

complete business transactions inPeopleSoft applications.

A component holds one or more pagesthat the user navigates between usingtabs or links. Here you define the search

record and search attributes, processingmode, and toolbar buttons that display atthe bottom of each page in the component


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Step Seven Registering theComponent In this step following are achieved:

Attach the component to a menu

Assign security access for users

Place navigational links in the registry.

Once you register a component, the userinterface is complete and you can view

the application in the browser.


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Step Eight Testing the Application

The final step of application developmentis to thoroughly test the applicationbefore delivering the finished product to

users.


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Understanding Projects

Using Projects can help

Organize related definitions.

Understand relationships among definitions.

Coordinate the work of several developers.

Streamline upgrade tasks.

Search for fields or records.


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Development view of project


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Upgrade view of project


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Insert/delete object from project

Inserting object definition into project

Removing object definition from project

Create/Save New project


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Creating New Field

Create new field definitions.

Use multiple labels.

Open an existing field definition.

View field properties. Change field definitions.

Use the translate table.


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Types of Tables in People soft

System Catalogue Tables

People Tool Tables

Application Data Tables


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Continued.


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Continued

System Catalog tables store physicalattributes of tables and views, which yourdatabase management system uses to

optimize performance. People Tools tables contain information

that you define using People Tools.

Application Data tables house the actualdata that your users enter and accessthrough PeopleSoft application pages.


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Effective Dates

Future-Data rows that have effective datesthat are after the system date, which isusually todays date.

Current-Data row with the most recenteffective date that is closest to todays

(system) date, but not a future date. Only

one row is the current row. History-Data rows that have effective dates

before the current data row.


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Continued

Action View Change Insert NewRows

Update/Dis

play

Current,

Future

Future

only

Effective

Date GreaterThan theCurrent Row

Update/Dis

play All

History,

Current,Future

Future

only

Effective

Date GreaterThan theCurrent Row

Correction History,Current,

AllExisting

Add NewRows with


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Creating Record Definition

SQL Table

SQL View

Work/Derived Record

Dynamic View

Sub Record

Query View

Temporary Record


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Build the Record

SQL Table

SQL View

Temporary Table

Dynamic View


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Creating Page Definition

Frame

Group Box

Horizontal rule

Static Text

Check Box

Radio Button

Drop-Down List


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Edit Box

Long Edit Box

Subpage

Secondary Page

Push Button/Hyper Link

Grid

Scroll Area


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Creating Component Definition

Define Component

Add pages to a component

Search record

Add Search Record


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Creating Menu Definition

Define Menu

Register A Component

Test Application


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Signing In..PS

To sign in Peoplesoft application you needthree things :-

A URL

A valid user Id The correct password for the user Id.


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Homepage


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Homepage


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Browser Favorites vs PS Favorites

Documents

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