Oracle's PeopleSoft Applications Portal Preface

This preface discusses:

• About PeopleSoft Applications Portal.

• Using this PeopleBook.

• Related PeopleBooks.

• PeopleBooks and the PeopleSoft Online Library.

About PeopleSoft Applications Portal

This section discusses:

• PeopleSoft Portal Solutions product family.

• PeopleSoft Applications Portal and PeopleTools.

PeopleSoft Portal Solutions Product Family

These products are part of the PeopleSoft Portal Solutions product family:

• PeopleSoft Applications Portal.

• PeopleSoft Enterprise Internal Controls Enforcer.

PeopleSoft Applications Portal

Oracle's PeopleSoft Applications Portal is a world-class portal solution with many robust content and collaborative features. The PeopleSoft Applications Portal is ideal for customers wanting to deploy an unlimited number of communities across Applications that focus on PeopleSoft application business processes.

PeopleSoft Applications Portal 9.1 contains a rich set of Web 2.0 features. For instance, you can key collaborative workspaces and related content services to PeopleSoft application transactions, providing contextually relevant collaboration.

Two key characteristics distinguish PeopleSoft Applications Portal as a rich Web 2.0 platform:

• PeopleSoft Applications Portal is a traditional portal framework that you can use to aggregate and manage content from multiple applications and sources. With unified navigation ,it is now simple to configure PeopleSoft Applications Portal to federate multiple PeopleSoft application systems.

• Its collaborative capabilities make PeopleSoft Applications Portal a functional application that complements the features found in PeopleSoft applications.

PeopleSoft Enterprise Internal Controls Enforcer

Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Internal Controls Enforcer is designed to automate and enforce internal controls required under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Using the monitoring and diagnostic capabilities of the product, you can reduce the cost of complying with the new regulations and the risk of unforeseen changes in internal controls. PeopleSoft Enterprise Internal Controls Enforcer will work in conjunction with other PeopleSoft corporate governance solutions to make the entire compliance process repeatable and auditable, allowing you to focus on running your business.

In addition, the product enables you to continuously track and monitor controls and, optionally, to certify their effectiveness at interim times throughout the year to support certifications that are required for Section 302 of Sarbanes-Oxley.

See PeopleSoft 9.1 PeopleBook: Internal Controls Enforcer

PeopleSoft Applications Portal and PeopleTools Portal Technology

To understand the functionality of PeopleSoft Applications Portal, you should familiarize yourself with PeopleTools, focusing especially on the PeopleBooks and chapters that are devoted to portal functionality. Because PeopleSoft Applications Portal builds upon the basic internet architecture that is delivered with PeopleTools, this information gives you an excellent foundation of knowledge upon which the PeopleSoft Applications Portal suite of PeopleBooks builds.

PeopleTools portal technology is built on top of PeopleSoft Pure Internet Architecture and enables you to easily access and administer multiple content providers, including PeopleSoft databases such as Oracle's PeopleSoft Applications HRMS or Oracle's PeopleSoft CRM, as well as non-PeopleSoft content. It enables you to combine content from these multiple sources and deliver the result to users in a unified, simple-to-use interface.

The main elements of the PeopleTools portal technology are a portal servlet and an application server. These two elements work together to provide common portal processing features, such as page assembly, search ability, content management, navigation, and homepage personalization.

PeopleTools PeopleBooks cover the PeopleSoft Pure Internet Architecture and PeopleTools portal technology in detail.

See PeopleTools 8.52: PeopleTools Portal Technologies PeopleBook

Using this PeopleBook

This section discusses:

• About this book.

• Common elements used in PeopleSoft Applications Portal.

About this Book

This PeopleBook comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 1: Introducing Collaborative Workspaces

  This chapter provides an introduction to collaborative workspaces and the workspace homepage.

  See Understanding Collaborative Workspaces.

• Chapter 2: Setting Up Collaborative Workspace Options and Templates

  This chapter describes system options to enable workspace features and documents how to create and maintain workspace templates.

  See Setting Up Collaborative Workspace Options and Templates.

• Chapter 3: Creating Collaborative Workspaces

  This chapter describes how to create collaborative workspaces.

  See Creating Collaborative Workspaces.

• Chapter 4: Administering Collaborative Workspaces

  This chapter describes how to administer workspaces and workspace modules.

  See Administering Collaborative Workspaces.

• Chapter 5: Working in Collaborative Workspaces

  This chapter describes how to use each workspace module and the pagelets on the workspace homepage.

  See Working in Collaborative Workspaces.

Common Elements Used in PeopleSoft Applications Portal

This section discusses the rich text editor.

About the Rich Text Editor

Many PeopleSoft Applications Portal features—including blogs, discussion forums, text/HTML content, wiki content, and others—employ the rich text editor.

The rich text editor provides editing and formatting capabilities for long edit boxes. It allows for the rich formatting of text content, including structural elements such as HTML tags and lists, formatting treatments such as bold and italic text, and drag-and-drop inclusion and sizing of images, among other features. Moreover, the rich text editor tool bar is extensible by using a custom settings configuration file.

See PeopleTools 8.52: PeopleSoft Applications User's Guide PeopleBook, “Using PeopleSoft Application Pages,” Working With Rich Text Editor Fields.

Related PeopleBooks

This section discusses:

• PeopleSoft Applications Portal PeopleBooks.

• PeopleTools PeopleBooks.

PeopleSoft Applications Portal PeopleBooks

The PeopleSoft Applications Portal PeopleBook library includes the PeopleBooks listed here:

• PeopleSoft Applications Portal 9.1 PeopleBook: Branding

  This PeopleBook covers the branding feature, which enables you to apply various branding themes to the portal, portal sites, and collaborative workspaces to present multiple visual designs and deliver appropriate links for specific user audiences.

  See Portal Solutions 9.1 PeopleBook: Branding

• PeopleSoft Applications Portal 9.1 PeopleBook: Collaborative Workspaces

  This is the PeopleBook you are reading. It covers setup, administration, and use of collaborative workspaces, which are virtual team rooms that facilitate collaboration on a variety of collaborative projects and processes.

  See PeopleSoft Applications Portal 9.1 PeopleBook: Collaborative Workspaces

• PeopleSoft Applications Portal 9.1 PeopleBook: Content Management System

  This PeopleBook describes the content management system, which includes features to help you manage, create, and organize content. The resulting content is ready and available for placement in various portal pagelets and news publications; reuse in workspaces, calendars, and other portal features; or available just for browsing.

  See PeopleSoft Applications Portal 9.1 PeopleBook: Content Management System

• PeopleSoft Applications Portal 9.1 PeopleBook: Portal and Site Administration

  This PeopleBook covers tasks for administering portals and sites including product configuration, systemwide setup and administration, integration with third-party systems, and so on.

  See PeopleSoft Applications Portal 9.1 PeopleBook: Portal and Site Administration

• PeopleSoft Applications Portal 9.1 PeopleBook: Resource Finder

  This PeopleBook describes how to set up and use Resource Finder, a highly flexible repository that describes any organizational resource, along with links that relate these resources to each other.

  See PeopleSoft Applications Portal 9.1 PeopleBook: Resource Finder

• PeopleSoft Applications Portal 9.1 PeopleBook: Using Portal Features

  This PeopleBook covers set up and usage of items such as blogs, calendars, discussion forums, feeds, tagging, searching, related content services, and other features of PeopleSoft Applications Portal.

  See PeopleSoft Applications Portal 9.1 PeopleBook: Using Portal Features

PeopleTools PeopleBooks

The PeopleTools 8.50 PeopleBook library contains the complete set of books covering PeopleTools 8.50. In particular, several of these books are useful to the setup, administration, and use of PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal, including:

• PeopleTools 8.52: Feed Publishing Framework PeopleBook

  The PeopleTools Feed Publishing Framework supports the publication of PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal data as feeds. In addition, you can use the framework to develop custom feed types.

• PeopleTools 8.52: PeopleSoft Integration Broker Administration PeopleBook

  Integration Broker facilitates the exposure of PeopleSoft business logic as services and the consumption of external web services. Integration Broker also supports synchronous and asynchronous messaging between PeopleSoft applications and with third-party systems.

• PeopleTools 8.52: PeopleTools Portal Technologies PeopleBook

  PeopleTools portal technology is the foundation of the PeopleSoft Applications Portal product. This book covers critical portal technologies such as portal implementation, PeopleSoft Pure Internet Architecture, Pagelet Wizard, the Related Content Framework, and others.

• PeopleTools 8.52: Security Administration PeopleBook

  This book covers important security-related topics, including PeopleTools user profiles, roles, permission lists, single sign-on, and others.

• PeopleTools 8.52: PeopleSoft Applications User's Guide PeopleBook

  This PeopleBook provides general information about PeopleSoft applications useful to all users of PeopleSoft systems. Topics include an introduction to the PeopleSoft Pure Internet Architecture, an explanation of how to navigate through the system and how to perform searches, the elements of application pages, and so on.

Note. These and other PeopleBooks in the PeopleTools library are referenced as needed.

See Also

PeopleBooks and the PeopleSoft Online Library

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.