PeopleSoft Advanced ConfiguratorThis preface discusses:
PeopleSoft advanced configurator.
PeopleSoft order capture applications
PeopleSoft Advanced ConfiguratorThe PeopleSoft Advanced Configurator 9.1 PeopleBook provides implementation and processing information for the Advanced Configurator application. Information is organized into these topics:
Getting Started provides an overview of the application's basic concepts, capabilities, implementation phases, and tools.
Product Modeling with a Component Model explains how to build the central component of a configuration implementation, the model, to represent a product or service, using PeopleSoft Visual Modeler.
Product Modeling with a Compound Model explains how to represent a product or service with parts that are themselves configurable.
Application Extensions describes how to build specific functionality by calling or extending Advanced Configurator Java APIs.
PeopleSoft Order Capture Integration describes how to set up Advanced Configurator for configuration sessions from within the PeopleSoft Order Capture application.
Building a Custom User Interface details the front-end components that allow you to build a completely custom configuration interface for hosting on an independent production environment.
Advanced Configurator System Administration describes how to use the deployment and testing tools to validate and maintain configuration implementations.
In addition to the core reference sections of this PeopleBook, there are six appendixes:
Visual Modeler Expression Editor Functions lists the many operators and functions available for writing expressions to describe model behavior.
Creating and Adding User-Defined Functions is a tutorial for writing your own functions for use in creating expressions for a model.
Advanced Configurator Form Controls provides a reference for the HTML and JSP code that renders each of the form controls available for a custom configuration interface.
Compound Model Properties File provides a hard-copy reference for the compound model properties file in two versions: annotated and non-annotated.
Node-Circuit-Hub Service Sample Model describes a sample complex product (communications services) offering that includes the XML representation of its compound structure definition
PeopleSoft Order Capture ApplicationsAdditional essential information describing the setup and design of your system appears in a companion volume of documentation called PeopleSoft CRM 9.1 Order Capture Applications PeopleBook.
The PeopleSoft CRM 9.1 Order Capture Applications PeopleBook consists of topics that apply if you are integrating PeopleSoft Order Capture with Advanced Configurator.
PeopleBooks and the PeopleSoft Online LibraryA 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.