PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Preface

This preface discusses:

• PeopleSoft products.

• Campus Solutions application fundamentals.

• Deferred processing.

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 these PeopleSoft products:

• PeopleSoft Academic Advisement.

• PeopleSoft Campus Community.

• PeopleSoft Recruiting and Admissions.

• PeopleSoft Contributor Relations.

• PeopleSoft Financial Aid.

• PeopleSoft Gradebook.

• PeopleSoft Student Financials.

• PeopleSoft Student Records.

• PeopleSoft Campus Self Service.

Campus Solutions Application Fundamentals

The PeopleBooks for each PeopleSoft application provide implementation and processing information for the Campus Solutions system. However, additional, essential information describing the setup and design of the system appears in two companion volumes of documentation:

• PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.0 Application Fundamentals PeopleBook (this PeopleBook).

• PeopleSoft Campus Community Fundamentals 9.0 PeopleBook.

Each PeopleSoft product line has its own version of this documentation.

PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.0 Application Fundamentals PeopleBook consists of important topics that apply to many or all PeopleSoft applications across the Campus Solutions product line. Whether you are implementing only one application, some combination of applications within the product line, or the entire Campus Solutions system, you should be familiar with the contents of this central PeopleBook (the book you are reading). It is the starting point for fundamentals, such as setting up control tables and administering security.

PeopleSoft Campus Community Fundamentals 9.0 PeopleBook provides documentation on the Campus Community features that are basic to all the applications. Campus Community enables you to maintain and manage a wide range of biographic and demographic information on people and organizations of interest to an institution, both internal and external.

Deferred Processing

Several pages in the Campus Solutions applications 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 that you enter before the system updates the page overrides the default. Another implication 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.