8 Steps To Building an Application in PeopleSoft

Designing the Application:

            This is the most important step in creating an application; most of the time in creating an application is spent during the application planning stage. This part is handled by the functional users to provide an enhancement to the current system. This portion is the foundation for which to build your application. It is a good idea for developer's to join this meeting, to help functional analyst to have a better understanding of what is possible from a development stand point. 

Defining Fields:

            When creating field definitions you must choose a data type, enter values for labels, and provide a unique name. Fields are the basic building blocks of the PeopleSoft system, in database terms they represent columns in tables or views.

Defining Records:

           When creating a record you will use the same steps as creating a field. Each field in a record definition has two sets of attributes, one that is set when creating the field, and one that is acquired from the record definition. Record definitions include attributes for individual field definition, each field in the record definition, PeopleCode assigned to events with specific fields, and the record definition as a whole.

Building Record Definitions:

         After developing the record definition you are now ready to build the SQL database table in which to store data. The build uses the field and record definitions properties as its basis, the build process is used to create or modify tables, views, and indexes and triggers, by issuing data definition language commands.

Defining The Page:

         Defining a page is the first step to creating the UI. When you design page definitions that are divided into levels, you can create a page with up to four different levels, all related in a one-to-many relationship. The levels are numbered from 0 to 3. All of the fields on the page must be related as in they all belong to one table or tables with parent child relationships.

Defining The Component:

        Component definitions group related page definitions use a single search key. Components can consist of a single page or multiple pages. Peoplesoft writes and retrieves data from the data base from the component not the individual page. When you access the Component search page and enter the search key, SQL is then generated that is necessary to populate all of the pages in the component. Security is also set at this level, it is set at this level to limit navigation to pages for individual users of the system.

Registering The Component:

        Registering the component is the final phase of creating the UI. To display the development efforts in a browser you first must register the component. Register the components with the registration Wizard. The wizard will first gather all of the information and then attaches the component to the menu and assigns a permissions list, this is where security can be applied.

Testing The Component:

        This is the second most important step in creating an application; This part is handled by the functional users to provide a through testing to the Application to make sure it is functioning as designed. This portion is the closing of the process of creating the application in Peoplesoft.