Understanding PeopleSoft Table Setup

PeopleSoft applications rely on tables to store your business transactions as well as the structure and processing rules that drive your system. Before you start, set up your basic framework using the pages in PeopleTools . If you are integrating with PeopleSoft Pay/Bill Management, some of this framework should be defined first in other core Financials or HCM applications. You should work closely with administrators from your human resource and financials areas as you prepare to populate these tables.

Because of the relational design of PeopleSoft applications, the order in which you make important decisions about using the application is not necessarily the order in which you use the online pages to set up the database tables. Certain tables work as a group when you make processing or implementation decisions; therefore, you must establish data in some tables before others.