Understanding Notification Tools for Landing Page Notifications

Starting with PeopleTools 8.62, PeopleSoft Landing Page provides a single and customizable homepage for users to seamlessly navigate to relevant content and operational areas within the applications, view organizational updates and access resources. The landing page can be set up to include dynamic sections, such as Suggestions, Continue With, Announcements and Banner Announcements, which display contextually relevant tasks and information to logged-in users.

PeopleSoft Landing Page leverages PeopleTools Notifications to publish content to dynamic sections as notifications.

Both Notification Composer and Notification Publisher can be used to publish notifications that appear as tiles in dynamic sections of the landing page. They are referred to as landing page notifications throughout this documentation.

Important! Landing page notifications are a type of in-app notification that must be defined using Notification Composer. However, administrators can choose which tool to use to send these notifications based on their requirements.

Notification Composer

Notification Composer is the primary tool used for creating and managing notifications across PeopleSoft applications from one central location.

To support landing page notifications, Notification Composer:

Introduces the Homepage notification type for administrators to configure the in-app message definition for landing page notifications on the Compose Notification - Define Message Content - In-App Page.
Adds the Notification Publisher notification source for administrators to create landing page notifications that are sent using Notification Publisher, and be able to leverage the features offered in that tool.

For more information on creating notifications (including configuration options for landing page notifications) in Notification Composer, refer to the Creating and Managing Notifications with Notification Composer topic.

In terms of sending landing page notifications, Notification Composer is typically used when notifications are event-based. Here is an example of how it works. Suppose that the Absence Management application has created a landing page notification for the Continue With section to send reminders to users who have started but not submitted absence requests. When a user saves an absence request without submitting it, the application calls the EONC API to trigger and publish a reminder notification in the Continue With section. When the user selects the notification to navigate to the request and subsequently submits it, the application uses the Dismiss API to remove the notification from the landing page.

Notification Publisher

Notification Publisher, previously known as HR Notifications in HCM, is another PeopleSoft notification feature that is now available in Enterprise Components and can be used to publish notifications in landing page sections.

Notification Publisher works well for notifications that are not event-based, for example, sending announcements to all users, target user groups or individuals. It also works well for scheduled notifications, for example, sending open enrollment reminders on a future date. It supports robust features such as:

Sending one-time or recurring notifications.
Notifications with specified posting date and expiration date.
Notifications with attachments.
Message text override.
Recipient type setup security.

Landing page notifications can be sent immediately or scheduled from the Publish Notification page. Notification Publisher uses the category that is selected on the notification page to gather the homepage details needed to publish the notification. The notification text is prepopulated from the Notification Composer notification event that is associated with the selected category, and can be replaced with user-entered text if needed. Administrators can select notification recipients from various recipient types that are defined for Notification Publisher.