PeopleTools 8.53 Highlights from PreRelease notes

In this doodle I will share the new features and enhancements that we can expect in PeopleTools 8.53. Oracle is making significant contribution in increasing the user's experience with the applications. To achieve this they have added many features in the development tools below are the quick list that may be of developer's interest.

New Style Sheet

Oracle has introduced a new style sheet PSSTYLEDEF_TANGERINE for PeopleSoft 9.2 applications.This new style sheet will provide new look and feel for users. This new style sheet affects not only colors, but homepages,headers, application pages and pagelets.

Field Label Alignment

To align with design standards, for PeopleTools 8.53, pages created with Application Designer will have right aligned field labels. These field labels will be left positioned with no colon display.

PeopleSoft Portal Technologies

• Related Content Framework

         Related services can be configured in groups, which makes it simpler to configure the same services that appear in multiple places. Related actions to PeopleSoft pivot grids, allowing users to take actions directly on data displayed in a pivot grid.

• WorkCenter pages and dashboards

         Operational dashboards are designed to provide vital decision support information based on role.
WorkCenter pages are used to organize procedural tasks. WorkCenter pages also provide easier and
faster navigation, as well as other information that is needed for the transactions at hand.

• Activity guides

         Activity guides allow application developers to define processes that guide users through a series of predefined actions. Activity guides are often used for infrequent self-service events, such as benefits enrollment, and also can be used for managing process-specific tasks, such as period-end-close in PeopleSoft FSCM.

• Breadcrumbs

        When navigating within a workcenter or dashboard, the breadcrumbs include the WorkCenter or dashboard link. In addition, the breadcrumbs can also include search text,related actions, and the persistent search icon.

Personalization

Personalize option is provided at the component level. This enables each user to set auto-complete options by field, according to their individual preference.

PeopleSoft Update Manager

Update manager generates a custom change package based on the customer selection and the patches already applied to the customer environment.There will be no more prerequisite bundles or maintenance packs. The custom change package contains only those required objects based on your selection; only one package needs to be applied; and distinct objects are applied only once to the customer environment.You will see immediate benefits in reduced time and effort for analysis and preparation, patching, and patching verification and validation.

Data Migration Workbench

New tool that helps users manage the process of moving configuration data from one system to another. After migration this tool also allows you to compare and validate the source data with target data.

Application data sets

Application data sets are the technology layer for migrating data from one PeopleSoft database to another. Data set definitions define a group of records that constitute a data set which is the metadata that defines the shape of the data. Data Sets consist of a hierarchy of one or more record definitions and some properties. Each child record has all the keys of its parent record and optional additional keys. A data set instance has a single root row defined by the unique keys of the root record.

Trees

We can export trees to PDF Files for reporting purposes. While exporting a tree to a PDF file, you are able to select to export a tree with or without branches expanded, detail values, detail descriptions, and level
information.