New Features

in PeopleTools 8.53

c. WorkCenters and Dashboards:

Application developers and designers
can deploy dashboard-like pagelets within
WorkCenters to provide better decision
support for WorkCenter transactions. This
capability combines some of the features and
benefits of Dashboards with WorkCenters.
Applications can now consume remote
pagelets in WorkCenters, Homepages, and
Dashboards.
d. Activity Guide: In 8.53, the Activity Guide
enables application developers to define
a list of action items tied to transactional,
collaborative, or manual tasks. The action
User Interface item represents a task that can be tracked for
assignment and completion, and is secured
a. Dramatic New Look and Feel: New by roles and user lists. Activity Guides also
style sheet for good look and feel. These enable a hierarchical list of action items.
changes also lay the groundwork for A new Activity Guide WorkCenter template is
future user interface changes. available for use with building and
b. Related Actions/Related Content: configuring Activity Guides. This template
PeopleTools 8.53 brings Related Actions provides a frame with the navigation
to Pivot Grids, allowing users to take controls used to traverse an Activity Guide.
actions directly on data displayed in a The WorkCenter template also provides the
pivot grid. A new Related Actions widget following features:
can be used to display the Related • A status bar to indicate the progress of
Actions menu. This feature eliminates the Activity Guide, and the Active Action
the need for a developer to write code item is highlighted.
for displaying the optional menu and for • Ability to do pre-processing and post-
defining HTML areas on pages to processing for an action item.
display Related Actions. Related Services • Ability to assign an action item to a role
can be configured in groups, which or a user.
make it simpler to configure the same • Ability to create dependency rules for
services that appear in multiple places. action items.
PeopleSoft Search Lifecycle Management
Framework a. PeopleSoft Update Manager
b. Configuration Management with the
PeopleSoft Application Search framework
Data Migration Workbench (a brand new
features include:
tool): The Data Migration Workbench is a
• A search experience that functions
new tool that helps users manage the process
similarly to the internet, providing a look
of moving configuration data from one system
and feel that users will find both familiar
to another.
and intuitive.
c. PeopleSoft Test Framework: Enhanced to
• An Application Search that is available
support a number of new PeopleTools features
at any point in an application and can
and capabilities.
be configured to span multiple
d. Three-Way Merge Support
PeopleSoft applications. It enables users
to initiate transactions or navigate to key
information without using the PeopleSoft Server Administration
application menu or returning to the
homepage to do so.
and Infrastructure
• The ability to use filters and facets to a. Platform Components
narrow result sets, further enabling b. Extending 64-bit Support to the Windows
users to identify and navigate to specific Server Platform: The application server uses
application content. 64-bit binaries on the Windows Server
• Search results that display in prioritized platform. The 32-bit Windows code for the
order by relevance based on the application server will no longer be available.
provided search terms. c. A New Home for Customizations - PS_
• Related Action menus that are CUST_HOME: This change is optional;
embedded directly in the search results, customers may continue to use a traditional
allowing users to navigate straight to PS_HOME if desired.
specific related transactions, which are d. PeopleSoft Application Management Pack
prepopulated with the selected search for Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c
results data. e. Offload PS/nVision Workloads with Active
• A Component Search function that Data Guard and Golden Gate
enables users to search by keyword, f. Support for Firefox Extended Support
thereby extending the versatility of Releases: Firefox 17 is the anticipated
virtually all existing search pages. minimum ESR to be certified with PeopleTools
8.53.
Key PeopleSoft
Search Framework Enhancements:
• Performance
Security Administration
• New source types a. Secure by Default Initiative:
• Oracle SES instance sharing • Deliver all UserIDs with a password that must
• Multiple FTP credential support be set during Installation.
• Monitoring and diagnostics • Salt-enabled user Passwords.
• Duplicate search results
• Increased operator support
Integration Technology of the server-based chart engine. The new
charts incorporate improvements in scrolling
a. JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and display and more closely match the
from Documents overall PeopleTools look and feel.
b. REST Web Services d) Pivot Grid Enhancements:
c. Integration Network Enhancements • Multi Select Filters that provide the ability to
• Automated Network Status and Real- filter data on multiple values instead of a
Time Notification of Errors single value.
• Improved Life Cycle Utilities • Progressive Filtering that shows only valid
• Bulk Update of Permission for Service values for the current filter selection when a
Operations filter value is modified.
• Dynamic passing of prompt values into the
Reporting and Analysis Tools Pivot Grid being displayed in a Related
a) Reporting Console Enhancements: Content frame or in Related Actions.
• Drag-and-drop of folders and Process • Chart-only view allows users to change layout
Bookmark as a sibling. using grid.
• Drag-and-drop of folders and Process • Enabling of Pivot Grid pagelets to interact
Bookmark as a child of an existing with each other and with transaction pages.
folder. Prompt and filter value changes can be
• Rename of folders. published and subscribed to in real-time.
• Import folders and Process Bookmark of • Enhancements to the user interface.
existing user. • Pivot Grid Administration Component
• Dynamic Context Menu option on folder provides module to clone and delete Pivot
and Process Bookmark row for add, Grid Models and personalization.
edit, rename, delete options. • Enhancements to the Pivot Grid Wizard.
b) New My Reports Pagelet:
• Display list of different systems/ Development Tools
databases containing the reports and
providing functionality for filtering PeopleTools 8.53 introduces a new feature in
reports based on a particular database. Application Designer that allows developers
• Opening of the actual report directly to define the field label alignment for new or
instead of a page to display a list of modified pages. A configuration property can be
files. set that defines whether new field labels should
• Grouping of multiple instances of the be right or left aligned. This feature greatly
same report. streamlines the otherwise manual process of
c) Chart Enhancements: PeopleTools field label alignment. Once a field is placed
8.53 introduces a number of Chart on a page, the developer retains the ability to
Enhancements, including making use change the label alignment where necessary.
HTML, CSS3, and JavaScript instead

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