PeopleSoft Financial Gateway 9.1 PeopleBook

PeopleSoft Financial Gateway PeopleBook Preface

This preface discusses:

PeopleSoft products.
PeopleSoft application fundamentals.
Pages with deferred processing.
Common elements in this PeopleBook.

Note. This PeopleBook documents only page elements that require additional explanation. If a page element is not documented with the process or task in which it is used, then it either requires no additional explanation or is documented with the common elements for the section, chapter, or PeopleBook.

Oracle's PeopleSoft Products

This PeopleBook refers to these products:

PeopleSoft Cash Management.
PeopleSoft Deal Management.
PeopleSoft Payables.
PeopleSoft Receivables.
PeopleSoft General Ledger.
PeopleSoft eSettlements.
PeopleSoft Expenses.
PeopleSoft Global Payroll.
JD Edwards General Ledger.

PeopleSoft Application Fundamentals

The PeopleSoft Financial Gateway PeopleBook provides implementation and processing information for Financial Gateway. There is also additional, essential information describing the setup and design of your system resides in companion documentation. The companion documentation consists of important topics that apply to many or all PeopleSoft applications across the Financials, Enterprise Service Automation, and Supply Chain Management product lines. You should be familiar with the contents of these PeopleBooks.

The following companion PeopleBooks apply specifically to Financial Gateway:

PeopleSoft Cash Management PeopleBook
PeopleSoft Applications Fundamentals PeopleBook
PeopleSoft Global Options and Reports PeopleBook
PeopleSoft Banks Setup and Processing PeopleBook

Pages with Deferred Processing

Several pages in Financial Gateway operate in deferred processing mode. Most fields on these pages are not updated or validated until you save the page or refresh it by clicking a button, link, or tab. This delayed processing has various implications for the field values on the page—for example, if a field contains a default value, any value you enter before the system updates the page overrides the default. Another consequence of deferred processing is that the system updates quantity balances or totals only when you save or otherwise refresh the page.

PeopleBooks and the PeopleSoft Online Library

A companion PeopleBook called PeopleBooks and the PeopleSoft Online Library contains general information, including:

Understanding the PeopleSoft online library and related documentation.
How to send PeopleSoft documentation comments and suggestions to Oracle.
How to access hosted PeopleBooks, downloadable HTML PeopleBooks, and downloadable PDF PeopleBooks as well as documentation updates.
Understanding PeopleBook structure.
Typographical conventions and visual cues used in PeopleBooks.
ISO country codes and currency codes.
PeopleBooks that are common across multiple applications.
Common elements used in PeopleBooks.
Navigating the PeopleBooks interface and searching the PeopleSoft online library.
Displaying and printing screen shots and graphics in PeopleBooks.
How to manage the locally installed PeopleSoft online library, including web site folders.
Understanding documentation integration and how to integrate customized documentation into the library.
Application abbreviations found in application fields.

You can find PeopleBooks and the PeopleSoft Online Library in the online PeopleBooks Library for your PeopleTools release.

Common Elements Used in This PeopleBook

Account	ChartField that identifies the nature of a transaction for corporate accounts.
Affiliate	ChartField used to map transactions between business units when using a single interunit account.
Alt Acct (alternate account)	ChartField that identifies the nature of a transaction for statutory accounts. This field appears only if you enabled the Alternate Account option for your organization and for the general ledger business unit.
Application Tables	The main set of database tables an application is built on. Inquiries, batch processes, and analytic functions are operations that process application table data.
Class	ChartField that identifies a particular appropriation when you combine it with a fund, department ID, program code, and budget reference.
Currency	Code that identifies the type of currency for an amount, such as USD or EUR.
Dept (department)	ChartField that indicates who is responsible for or affected by the transaction.
Description	Free-flow text up to 256 characters.
Effective Date	Date on which a table row becomes effective; the date that an action begins. For example, to close out a ledger on June 30, the effective date for the ledger closing would be July 1. This date also determines when you can view and change the information. Pages and batch processes that use the information use the current row.
Fund	ChartField that represents structural units for education and government accounting. Can also represent a divisional breakdown in your organization.
Fund Affiliate	ChartField used to correlate transactions between funds when using a single intraunit account.
Language	The language in which you want the field labels and report headings of your reports to print. The field values appear as you enter them.
Oper Unit (operating unit)	ChartField used to identify a location, such as a distribution warehouse or sales center.
Process Frequency	Select from: Once: Runs the request the next time the batch process runs. After the batch process runs, the process frequency is automatically set to Don't Run. Always: Runs the request every time the batch process runs. Don't Run: Ignores the request when the batch process runs.
Process Monitor	This link takes you to the Process List page, where you can view the status of submitted process requests.
Product	ChartField that captures additional information useful for profitability and cash flow analysis by product sold or manufactured.
Program	ChartField that identifies groups of related activities, cost centers, revenue centers, responsibility centers, and academic programs. Tracks revenue and expenditures for programs.
Project	ChartField that captures information for project or grant accounting.
Report ID	The report identifier.
Report Manager	This link takes you to the Report List page, where you can view report content, check the status of a report, and see content detail messages (which show you a description of the report and the distribution list).
Run	This button takes you to the Process Scheduler request page, where you can specify the location where a process or job runs and the process output layout.
Run Control ID	An identification code that identifies the run parameters for a report or process.
SetID	An identification code that represents a set of control table information or table sets. A TableSet is a group of tables (records) necessary to define your company's structure and processing options.
Short Description	Free-flow text up to 15 characters.
Source Application	Any application from which payment transactions originate before being sent to Financial Gateway for processing. PeopleSoft source applications include Cash Management, Deal Management, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable.
Staging Tables	A set of database tables designed to temporarily hold data for a processing. Data are sent to, and stored in, staging tables before an integration process is run that loads the data into application tables.
Status	Indicates whether a row in a table is Active or Inactive. You cannot display inactive rows on transaction pages or use them for running batch processes. To maintain an audit trail, inactivate rather than delete data that you no longer use.
Unit	Business unit for an item.