Finding Tiles

Fluid Homepage Tiles are Content References just like all other content references, with one exception: They are really hard to find! Fluid tile definitions exist in a subfolder of Fluid Structure and Content > Fluid Pages. The question is: Which folder?

PeopleTools 8.60 added a new feature that may help: groupletid. Tile HTML now contains a custom attribute called groupletid. You may read more about this new feature in PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.60 New Features Overview (Doc ID 2897533.1) on My Oracle Support.

As stated in the support document, the Grouplet ID is the Content Reference ID (CREF ID). Fantastic! What that means is you and I can capture the CREF ID directly from the HTML!

Once I have the CREF ID, I can visit Enterprise Components > Find Object Navigation to find the tile's Portal Registry folder and path.

Are you interested in printing a list of all tile CREFs for a particular user? Fire up your browser's JavaScript console and type (or paste) the following:

document.querySelectorAll("div[groupletid]").forEach(function(el) {
  console.log(el.getAttribute('groupletid'))
});

All tiles from all homepages exist in the HTML as soon as the homepage loads. They are just hidden. Want to just see the tiles for the active homepage? Try this derivative:

document.querySelectorAll(".lptab-cont:not(.psc_invisible) div[groupletid]").forEach(function(el) {
  console.log(el.getAttribute('groupletid'))
});

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