Common Terms Used in PeopleSoft SAIP

Refers to the items included in the data transfer. To include an item in scope is to mark it for inclusion in the next snapshot data transfer (by either full or incremental snapshot integration) and in event-based updates. When an item is included in scope, SAIP continues to capture the data from the PeopleSoft Campus Solutions system and use it to update the same data in the target external system until the item is cleared from scope.

For an item to be included in scope, all elements in the item's hierarchy must be in scope. For example, for an academic organization to be in scope, its parent institution must be in scope; for a class section to be in scope, its parent institution, academic organization, and the term for that class section must be in scope.

The more granular levels of items eligible for inclusion in scope. The highest levels are institution, academic organization, and term. The lower levels, or elements, are course offerings, class sections, and persons.

All three high levels must be in scope for the more granular elements to be available for inclusion or exclusion.

The external third-party system or target system is the system intended to request data and receive the data captured and transferred from your PeopleSoft Campus Solutions system, or in the case of grade import, it is the external third-party system from which grades are received by your PeopleSoft Campus Solutions system.

In many cases, the external system is your institution's learning management system (LMS).

A snapshot is a capture of data as it exists in the PeopleSoft Campus Solutions system at the moment of the capture.

An incremental snapshot captures only data that was newly created or changed or newly placed in scope in the PeopleSoft Campus Solutions system as of the date and time defined in the request. SAIP makes the captured data available to the external system. When the external system requests the data, the snapshot is applied, updating the existing data and adding the newly created data in the external system.

A full synchronization snapshot captures all in-scope data from the PeopleSoft Campus Solutions system no matter when it was created or changed. SAIP makes the captured data available to the external system. When the external system requests the data, the snapshot is applied, overwriting all of the data in the target system.

Offset is used in the context of Integration Dating. At the term and session levels, default Offset values are set to configure the number of days plus or minus a start or end date that integration should be active. A typical use case would be that an institution would like course shells in their learning management system to be created 10 days prior to the actual start of a new term. By setting an offset of -10 for the integration start date, all class sections that are in scope will become active integrations 10 days prior to the actual start date for classes.