Understanding PeopleSoft Services Procurement Pagelets
PeopleSoft Services Procurement provides portal pagelets for the corporate intranet home pages. These pagelets provide access to key data and transactions within PeopleSoft Services Procurement for use in employee portal registries.
Portal pagelets reduce the number of clicks that it takes a user to complete major tasks in PeopleSoft Services Procurement. These pagelets are user-friendly and enable users to gain quick access to relevant data from the transaction or analysis system. Pagelets can either be grids or graphs and contain the most recent transactions or high priority items. You can configure the portal homepage to display narrow or wide grid pagelets.
Grid Pagelets: Present data in a PeopleSoft grid. Each pagelet displays the services procurement page name, key attributes, and links to the corresponding services procurement edit page.
Graph Pagelets: Visual representations of services procurement data in chart format. The services procurement ID and the metric attributes represent the X-axis and Y-axis of the chart respectively.
Employees can personalize the portal homepage by adding the pagelets that they need. Standard PeopleSoft role-based security ensures that users can access only the pagelets appropriate to their roles.
Employees can configure their portal homepage with three narrow columns or one narrow and one wide column. Some pagelets have both a narrow and a wide version, each with its own object name. When you see two object names for a pagelet, the first one refers to the narrow version.
You can also design your own pagelets when the installation includes PeopleSoft Portal.
Similar to page access, you control pagelet security at the component level by associating it with a permission list (which is then associated with a role). Each pagelet has its own component to enable more granular access. (You can ascertain a pagelet's component name in PeopleSoft Application Designer by searching for definition references to the page's system or object name.)
Pagelets are grouped into functional roles as an example of how to organize access. Create the proper permission lists and associate them with actual role definitions before your users can access them, or use the permission list definitions that PeopleSoft provides with the delivered sample data. You can use these sample data security objects (roles and permission lists) as an example of how to set up pagelet access.