PeopleTools Object Tables

PeopleSoft Projects
PSPROJECTDEFN table stores information about projects created in Application Designer.
Try it out:
SELECT * FROM PSPROJECTDEFN
WHERE PROJECTNAME = Your_Project_name';
PSPROJECTITEM table stores objects inserted into your Application Designer project.
Try it out:
SELECT * FROM PSPROJECTITEM
WHERE PROJECTNAME = Your_Project_name';
Portal Structure
PSPRSMDEFN is a Portal Structure Definition table. A good example is to use this table to find portal path for a
specific component.
PSPRSMPERM: Shows the permission lists that are assigned to a portal registry structure (content reference). The
permission list name is under field PORTAL_PERMNAME.
XLAT Tables
XLATTABLE: Stores translate values (PeopleSoft version prior to 8.4).
PSXLATDEFN: Stores all fields that have Xlat values. This table does not store any Xlat values.
PSXLATITEM: Stores fields with their actual translate values (PeopleSoft version 8.4 and above).
Record & Field Tables
PSRECDEFN: Stores informations about tables. One row for each table. Field count and record type are two fields
that are stored on this table.
CASE RECTYPE
WHEN 0 THEN Table
WHEN 1 THEN View
WHEN 2 THEN Derived
WHEN 3 THEN Sub Record
WHEN 5 THEN Dynamic View
WHEN 6 THEN Query View
WHEN 7 THEN Temporary Table
ELSE TO_CHAR(RECTYPE)
END CASE
PSRECFIELD: Stores records with all their fields (sub-records are not expanded)
PSRECFIELDALL: Stores records with all their fields (sub-records are expanded)
PSINDEXDEFN: Contains 1 row per index defined for a table.
PSKEYDEFN: Containes 1 row per key field defined for an index.
PSDBFIELD: You got it, stores information about fields.
CASE FIELDTYPE
WHEN 0 THEN Character
WHEN 1 THEN Long Character
WHEN 2 THEN Number
WHEN 3 THEN Signed Number
WHEN 4 THEN Date
WHEN 5 THEN Time
WHEN 6 THEN DateTime
WHEN 8 THEN Image
WHEN 9 THEN Image Reference
ELSE TO_CHAR(FIELDTYPE)
END CASE
PSDBFLDLABL: Stores field label information.
Process Definition Table(s)
PS_PRCSDEFNPNL: Stores the process definition name, process type(sqr report, application engine), and the
component name associated with the process definition.
PS_PRCSDEFN: Process definitions table. The record stores processes that can run within the Process Scheduler.
Security information such as components and process groups are also stored on this table.
Message Catalog Tables
PSMSGCATDEFN: Stores information about PeopleSoft message catalogs such as message set number, message
number and the actual message text.
PSMSGCATLANG: language table.
Example

SELECT * FROM PSMSGCATDEFN

WHERE LAST_UPDATE_DTTM > TO_DATE(03-DEC-07, DD-MON-YY)
AND LAST_UPDATE_DTTM < TO_DATE(05-DEC-07, DD-MON-YY)
ORDER BY MESSAGE_SET_NBR, MESSAGE_NBR;
This will return messages that has been last update/added between 2 specific dates.
Previous PeopleSoft message catalog tables:
PS_MESSAGE_CATALOG: Stores information about PeopleSoft message catalogs such as message set number,
message number and the actual message text.
MESSAGE_SET_TBL: Message set description table.
Example
SELECT * FROM PS_MESSAGE_CATALOG
WHERE LAST_UPDATE_DTTM > TO_DATE(03-DEC-07, DD-MON-YY)
AND LAST_UPDATE_DTTM < TO_DATE(05-DEC-07, DD-MON-YY)
ORDER BY MESSAGE_SET_NBR, MESSAGE_NBR;
This will return messages that has been last update/added between 2 specific dates.
Menu Tables
PSMENUDEFN: Store Menu related information. No related component info on this table.
PSMENUITEM: List the menu with all components attached to it.
Component Tables
PSPNLGRPDEFN: Stores component related information only.
PSPNLGROUP: This table will give you information regarding a specific component along with the names of pages
attached to it.
Pages
PSPNLDEFN: Stores pages definitions.
CASE PNLTYPE
WHEN 0 THEN Page
WHEN 1 THEN Sub page
WHEN 2 THEN Secondary page
ELSE TO_CHAR(PNLTYPE)
END CASE
PSPNLFIELD: Stores all items used by each page definition.
CASE FIELDTYPE
WHEN 0 THEN Static Text
WHEN 1 THEN Frame
WHEN 2 THEN Group Box
WHEN 3 THEN Statis Image
WHEN 4 THEN Edit Box
WHEN 5 THEN Dropdown List
WHEN 6 THEN Long Edit Box
WHEN 7 THEN Check Box
WHEN 8 THEN Radio Button
WHEN 9 THEN Image
WHEN 10 THEN Scroll Bar
WHEN 11 THEN Subpage
WHEN 12 THEN Peoplecode Command (Button/Hyperlink Destination)
WHEN 13 THEN Scroll Action (Button/Hyperlink Destination)
WHEN 14 THEN Toolbar Action (Button/Hyperlink Destination)
WHEN 15 THEN External Link (Button/Hyperlink Destination)
WHEN 16 THEN Internal Link (Button/Hyperlink Destination)
WHEN 17 THEN Process (Button/Hyperlink Destination)
WHEN 18 THEN Secondary Page
WHEN 19 THEN Grid
WHEN 20 THEN Tree
WHEN 21 THEN Secondary Page (Button/Hyperlink Destination)
WHEN 23 THEN Horizontal Rule
WHEN 24 THEN Tab Separator
WHEN 25 THEN Html Area
WHEN 26 THEN Prompt Action (Button/Hyperlink Destination)
WHEN 27 THEN Scroll Area
WHEN 29 THEN Page Anchor
WHEN 30 THEN Chart
WHEN 31 THEN Push Button/Link
WHEN 32 THEN Analytic Grid
ELSE TO_CHAR(FIELDTYPE)
END CASE

Security
PSPRSMPERM: Portal Structure Permissions.
PSAUTHITEM: Page Permissions. This table stores the information about the page level access for a permission list.
PSROLECLASS: Role Classes table. A many to many relationship table between Roles and Permission Lists.
PSROLEDEFN: This table stores information about Peoplesoft Role definitions. Users get permissions to PeopleSoft
objects through Roles, which are assigned Permission Lists.
PSROLEUSER: This table stores information about the Users in Peoplesoft and the roles assigned to them.
PSCLASSDEFN: Permissions List definitions table. Permission list name can be found under Field Name CLASSID.
PSOPRDEFN: Users/Operator definition table. This table stores information about PeopleSoft users. This is the core
table for User Profile Manager.
PSOPRCLS: Users/Operator and Perm list mapping Table. This table stores information about PeopleSoft users and
the permission lists attached to those users.
A User gets these permission lists indirectly through the roles which are attached to the user
URL Definitions
PSURLDEFN: Stores URL definitions. Here is the path to create URL definitions in PeopleSoft Root >> PeopleTools >>
Utilities >> Administration >> URLs
Application Classes
PSAPPCLASSDEFN: Application Class Definitions table. You can use field PACKAGEROOT to search for a specific
Application Package.
PeopleSoft Query Tables
PSQRYDEFN: Stores query related info.
PSQRYFIELD: Stores all fields used in a query (both the fields in the Select and Where clause).
PSQRYCRITERIA: Stores criteria query fields. You can get the name of the fields by joining the PSQRYFIELD table.
PSQRYEXPR: Stores query expressions.
PSQRYBIND: Stores query bind variables.
PSQRYRECORD: Stores all records used in all aspects of query creation
PSQRYSELECT: Stores all SELECT requirements by select type. Example would be sub select, join, ect.
PSQRYLINK: Stores the relationships to child queries.
PSQRYEXECLOG: Query run time log table that stores (only 8.4x and higher)
PSQRYSTATS: Query run time statistics table such as count of query execution, and date time of last execution (only
in 8.4x and higher).
SQL Objects
PSSQLDEFN: Stores SQL object definitions.
PSSQLDESCR: Stores SQL objects descriptions, and description long.
PSSQLTEXTDEFN: Stores actual SQL text. You can filter by SQLTYPE field to get SQL objects of interest such as
Views SQLs and Application Engine SQLs.
When SQL type is:
0 = Stand alone SQL objects
1 = Application engine SQL
2 = Views SQLs
Application Engines
PSAEAPPLDEFN: Table that stores Application Engine program definitions.
PSAEAPPLSTATE: Stores application engine STATE records and a flag to indicate if the record is the default STATE
record.
PSAESECTDEFN: Application engine section information and also stores last user id to update a specific section.
PSAESECTDTLDEFN: AE section along with descriptions and wither the section is active or not.
PSAEAPPLTEMPTBL: If your application engine uses Temp tables it will show on this record.
PSAESTEPDEFN: Steps in application engines are stored in this table.
PSAESTMTDEFN: Stores your application engine actions and along with their types, such as Do Select and so on.
PSAESTEPMSGDEFN: Application engine message action definition table.
AEREQUESTTBL: Application Engine request table behind the AE run control page.
AEREQUESTPARM: Application Engine request parameters table behind the AE run control page.
PeopleCode Tables
PSPCMNAME: PeopleCode Reference table.
PSPCMPROG: Store actual PeopleCode programs (actual code behind PeopleCode events).
Process Request Tables
PSPRCSQUE: This record contains the process request information to run a process request.
PSPRCSRQST: This record contains the process request information to run a process request.
PS_PMN_PRCSLIST: A view to list all process requests in the Process Monitor except for Delete (runstatus = 2)
process requests.
Other Useful Tables
PSSTATUS: Stores PeopleSoft information such as PS Tools release version and the UNICODE_ENABLED boolean flag
where a value of 1 indicates the DB is to be treated by Tools as a UNICODE DB.

PSCHGCTLLOCK: Description as explained by PeopleSoft This table contains a a row for every object that is
currently locked by any user. When the user requests to lock an object in the Application Designer, first this table is
searched to see if the object is locked by another user. If it is not found, a row is inserted into the table. When the
user requests to unlock an object, the row in this table is deleted.
PSMAPFIELD: Stores Field mapping of Activity
PS_PRCSRUNCNTL: Run Control record stores Run Control IDs created online.