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

This section discusses the products that are part of the PeopleSoft Portal Solutions product family:

• PeopleSoft Applications Portal.

• PeopleSoft 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 wishing to deploy an unlimited number of communities across enterprise that focus on PeopleSoft application business processes.

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

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

• First, PeopleSoft Applications Portal is a traditional portal framework that can be used for aggregating and managing content from multiple applications and sources. With unified navigation, it is now simple to configure PeopleSoft Applications Portal to federate multiple PeopleSoft application systems.

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

PeopleSoft Internal Controls Enforcer

Oracle's PeopleSoft Internal Controls Enforcer is designed to automate and enforce internal controls required under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Using the product's monitoring and diagnostic capabilities, you can reduce the cost of complying with the new regulations and the risk of unforeseen changes in internal controls. PeopleSoft 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, 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, Oracle recommends that you 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 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

Chapters in this PeopleBook are grouped into the following parts. See the associated references for more information about the chapters and general content included in each part.

• Part 1: Introduction.

  This part provides an overview of getting started with PeopleSoft Applications Portal.

  See IntroductionIntroduction.

• Part 2: Navigation

  This part provides an overview of how to get around in PeopleSoft Applications Portal and describes navigation features such as My Links.

  See Navigation.

• Part 3: Collaborative Features

  This part describes the collaborative features of PeopleSoft Applications Portal such as action items, blogs, calendars, discussion forums, feeds and alerts, and tagging.

  See Collaborative Features.

• Part 4: Other Portal Features

  This part describes other portal features such as polls, surveys, integration with third-party email and calendar systems, and menu item requests.

  See Other Portal Features.

• Part 5: Performing Searches

  This part describes how to perform searches and how to save and reuse searches.

  See Administering the Search InfrastructurePerforming Searches.

• Part 6: Context Manager, Content Ratings, and iTracker

  This part describes how to set up and use Context Manager, content ratings, and iTracker.

  See Context Manager, Content Ratings, and iTracker.

• Part 7: Related Content Services

  This part describes the setup and use of three delivered related content services: Related Discussion service, Related Links service, Related Tags service.

  See Related Content Services.

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-Enabled Fields.

Related PeopleBooks

This section discusses:

• PeopleSoft Applications Portal PeopleBooks.

• PeopleTools PeopleBooks.

PeopleSoft Applications Portal PeopleBooks

The PeopleSoft Applications Portal PeopleBook library includes:

• PeopleSoft Applications Portal 9.1 PeopleBook: Branding PeopleBook

  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.

• PeopleSoft Applications Portal 9.1 PeopleBook: Collaborative Workspaces PeopleBook

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

• PeopleSoft Applications Portal 9.1 PeopleBook: Content Management System PeopleBook

  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.

• PeopleSoft Applications Portal 9.1 PeopleBook: Portal and Site Administration PeopleBook

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

• PeopleSoft Applications Portal 9.1 PeopleBook: Resource Finder PeopleBook

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

• PeopleSoft Applications Portal 9.1 PeopleBook: Using Portal Features PeopleBook

  The PeopleBook you are reading, this book covers setup and usage of items such as blogs, calendars, discussion forums, feeds, tagging, searching, related content services, and other features of PeopleSoft Applications Portal.

PeopleTools PeopleBooks

The PeopleTools 8.52 PeopleBook library contains the complete set of books covering PeopleTools 8.52. In particular, several of these books are useful to the setup, administration, and use of PeopleSoft Applications Portal including:

• PeopleTools 8.52: Feed Publishing Framework PeopleBook.

  The PeopleTools Feed Publishing Framework supports the publication of PeopleSoft Applications Portal data as feeds. In addition, the framework can be used 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 (SSO), 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, explanation of how to navigate through the system, how to perform searches, 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.