Using Component Interfaces to Access Components

A component interface is a PeopleTools object created in Application Designer. It allows you to access a PeopleSoft component from another application, a PeopleSoft application engine program, or another external application. The application can simultaneously update a component's underlying data and use its business logic without knowing the details of page structures or component definitions.

The Maintain Catalog Partners and Maintain Categories components, delivered with Catalog Management, use component interfaces to update partner registration and category information, respectively.

Suppose you want to create 500 new categories. You can use PeopleCode to call the EOCM_CATEGORY_CI component interface to load the data more efficiently into the EOCM_CATEGORY table using an excel spreadsheet or another application.

PeopleSoft provides component interfaces for the following areas in Catalog Management:

See the product documentation for

PeopleTools: Component Interfaces