PeopleTools 8.52: PeopleSoft Documents Technology

Getting Started with PeopleSoft Documents Technology

This chapter provides an overview of PeopleSoft documents technology and discusses:

Implementing PeopleSoft documents technology.
Other sources of information.

PeopleSoft Documents Technology Overview

PeopleSoft documents technology includes a Document Builder, a PeopleCode API, and several utilities that enable you to create, manage, and test documents. The Document Builder enables you to build documents from the ground up, by importing schema definitions, or from PeopleSoft table definitions. A PeopleCode API is provided to enable you to populate and retrieve document data. PeopleSoft delivers a number of document utilities to help you validate documents during and after construction; validate schema; resolve copy project, import, and upgrade metadata issues; and more. You can use documents for integrating with third-party partners, as an alternative to using standalone rowsets, as a mechanism to distribute complex data, and more.

Implementing PeopleSoft Documents Technology

This section contains information to consider before you use the PeopleSoft documents technology.

Determining Security Requirements

A security analyst should evaluate your security requirements for your documents implementation. PeopleSoft Documents Technology enables you to limit write access to documents as well as contain them in specific document packages.

Assessing Staff Skills

Assess the skills of the people who will perform development and administrative functions. Developers should have familiarity, training, or experience in the following areas:

PeopleTools
PeopleCode

In addition, developers should understand and have research capabilities in Extensible Markup Language (XML).

Other Sources of Information

In addition to the considerations presented in this chapter, take advantage of all PeopleSoft sources of information, including installation guides, release notes, PeopleBooks, curriculum, and red papers.