Understanding Pagelet Wizard

Pagelet Wizard provides a user-friendly, browser-based graphical user interface that leads you through the steps involved in creating and publishing a pagelet. Portal administrators and nontechnical users can use Pagelet Wizard to integrate and transform data from a variety of data sources.

Image: Numbered steps in Pagelet Wizard

You do not need to have PeopleSoft-specific application development tools or skills to use Pagelet Wizard to create pagelets. During the pagelet-creation process, Pagelet Wizard presents a series of numbered steps. Each step appears in a numbered path at the top of the page to indicate where you are in the pagelet creation process as shown in the following example:

The following example helps us understand the numbered steps in Pagelet Wizard.

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This labeled path assists you in navigating forward and back through the steps in the wizard, which enables you to review or edit pagelet definition values. Once you’ve completed a step, Pagelet Wizard automatically takes you to the next appropriate step.

Pagelet Wizard leads you through the following steps that are typically used to create a pagelet:

  1. Specify pagelet information.

  2. Select data source.

  3. Specify data source parameters.

  4. Select display format.

  5. Specify display options.

  6. Specify publishing options.

Note: Before you start building a pagelet with Pagelet Wizard, you should familiarize yourself with all data types supported by Pagelet Wizard.