Saturday, September 28, 2013

PeopleTools 8.5: Query Drilling URL in PS Query Reports

Since PeopleTools 8.5, a new feature for Query Manager called Drilling URL was released.  Drilling URL allow the query results page shows the results as “links”. Through these links users can access a PIA page, another query results page or an external link depending on how the URLs are defined.

This feature which provides the query tool ability to drill down into details without having to write down information, navigate to new pages or run new queries.  It also allows embeddable pagelets on the home page to not only act as dashboards, but drill down into the details which is what a good dashboard is supposed to do.

To take advantage of this feature, you will want to create an expression for each drilling URL you will want to put in your query. You first go to the Expressions tab in Query and add the expression and select the expression type as Drilling URL.

Click here for the video with the steps on how to use and take advantage of this feature.

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