Having worked with PeopleSoft for over ten years, I’ve had the pleasure to experience the joy in building enterprise applications with a rapid and productive environment called PeopleTools. Although PeopleTools is now out-dated in comparison to more modern frameworks, it was (and still is) the most productive development framework I’ve ever worked with (i.e., for [...]
In the past week I’ve been playing around with PeopleSoft’s built-in search engine (Verity) to come up with a better search experience for users. Riding on the wave of Google Suggest a lot of people have implemented a “live” search feature on their sites. So, I decided to sprinkle a little AJAX on [...]
Over the past few years, I’ve run into several hidden PeopleTools tricks that I’ve never seen documented. I have no idea why PeopleTools decided not to document these, but I’ve found a lot of use for them.
http://[server]/psp/[site]/?cmd=reloadconfig&pwd=[password] — Reloads the Web Profile
http://[server]/psp/[site]/?cmd=viewconfig&pwd=[password] — Displays currently cached Web Profile
http://[server]/psp/[site]/?cmd=purge&pwd=[password] — Purges webserver memory cache [...]
I’ve been working on some new tricks for my session at Oracle Open World. A lot of the things I’ve come up with incorporate Web 2.0 buzz word compliant features into the PeopleSoft Portal… stuff like Ajax/DHTML rich client type of features. I’ve also been trying to come up with simple, no-fuss, high-value [...]
Larry Grey, for those of you who don’t know him, was PeopleSoft’s expert and visionary for reporting and business intelligence. Many customers know him because he’s always had the most popular session at PeopleSoft’s conferences for as long as I can remember. Anyway, Larry has started his own business along with Brian Sparling [...]