Jim's PeopleSoft Journal

I regulary have to figure out the menu/portal navigation to a component given nothing more than a component or a CREF name (AKA Content Refe...

You can download my 2007 OpenWorld PeopleSoft PeopleTools Advanced Tips and Techniques presentation from the OpenWorld content catalog .

One thing that keeps me excited about PeopleSoft is the flexibility of the PeopleTools platform. As I was working on a a custom Pagelet Tran...

Several months ago I had the opportunity to configure a PeopleSoft system to "trust" users' desktop credentials. Some would ca...

Besides my OpenWorld presentation on Wednesday, I'm also staffing demo pod 15 Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Today, while discussing Peo...

Have you made your reservations for the 2007 Oracle OpenWorld experience? Are you looking for a PeopleSoft session packed with highly techn...

John Wagenleitner has posted some additional ways to configure log4j with PeopleCode in his post, appropriately titled, Log4j in PeopleCode...

Nested under the WEB-INF/psftdocs directory of your PeopleSoft web server, you will find several HTML templates. Even though the title of th...

I've heard that IT staffs are having trouble selling Ajax to the enterprise. The main enterprise response is "we don't need c...

On June 28 th at 4:15 PM I will be presenting the topic Add the Adjective "Rich" to your PeopleSoft User Experience in room 408 ...

Where are the PeopleCode Regular Expressions? They don't exist. Fortunately, since PeopleCode supports Java, we can "borrow" t...

Just in case you are wondering why I haven't been posting fantastic PeopleSoft tricks the past few months, it is because I was spending ...

In many organizations, the IT programmers are divided into two groups: those that program in the language of the enterprise system (PeopleSo...

Today I turned in my resignation to my supervisor at Chelan County PUD. I will miss my co-workers. On Monday, July 2nd, I move into Rich Man...

Because PeopleSoft databases are SQL compliant, it is possible to access a PeopleSoft database in Java using JDBC. At times, this may be pre...

Adding Web 2.0 behaviors to a PeopleSoft application usually requires adding Javascript, CSS, and HTML to a delivered PeopleSoft page. One ...

There are a lot of ways we can improve the PeopleSoft user interface using Ajax and JavaScript libraries. Using libraries like jQuery , we c...

Last month I wrote about using log4j to debug PeopleCode . This is a tool that I use quite often. Here are a couple more hints to help you u...

PeopleSoft's ability to build component search pages from search record meta-data saves developer's a lot of time. A developer can c...

In a standard PeopleSoft session, a user will enter data into components. If a user forgets to save a component before navigating to a new c...