PeopleSoft HR: Manage Base Benefits Preface

This preface discusses:

• PeopleSoft products.

• PeopleSoft HCM Application Fundamentals.

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 either it requires no additional explanation or it is documented with common elements for the section, chapter, PeopleBook, or product line.

PeopleSoft Products

This PeopleBook refers to the following PeopleSoft product: PeopleSoft Human Resources (HR): Manage Base Benefits.

PeopleSoft HCM Application Fundamentals

Additional, essential information describing the setup and design of your system appears in a companion volume of documentation called PeopleSoft HCM Application Fundamentals PeopleBook. Each PeopleSoft product line has its own version of this documentation.

Note. One or more pages in the Manage Base Benefits business process operate in deferred processing mode. Deferred processing is described in the preface of the PeopleSoft HCM Application Fundamentals PeopleBook.

See PeopleSoft HCM Application Fundamentals Preface.

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.