Text Substitution for Documents

Text substitution in the Text Catalog feature works just like substitution in the PeopleTools Message Catalog. You supply the text values for the tokens, also referred to as bind variables, in a PeopleCode function call at runtime. The values are replaced by parameters in the PeopleCode when the text is rendered on evaluations.

To use this feature, you must know PeopleCode. If you want to update the delivered text IDs such that the substitution tokens take on a different meaning or are resequenced, you also need to make corresponding changes to the PeopleCode that calls the Text Catalog feature retrieval functions, since this copies supplier values to use in place of the tokens.

These are the tokens and the substitution text for each token that are delivered by ePerformance. You can insert up to five substitution tokens from the following list:

• %1: The document type from the Document Type table (EP_REVW_TYP_TBL).

• %2: The employee name formatted as first name, last name.

• %3: The employee ID.

• %4: The period begin date for the performance period.

• %5: The period end date for the performance period.

• %6: The due date of the evaluation.

• %7: The component link that transfers the user directly to the applicable evaluation.

• %8: The list of employees for whom an evaluation was successfully created during the background run.

• %9: The list of employees for whom evaluations were not created.

• %10: The Form-Create-Msg, which is one of two alternate messages that appear depending on the type of process that is run.

• %11: The manager's name.

• %12: The list of Items that were added, updated, copied or cascaded into the ePerformance document.

• %13: The department name.

• %14: The due date type (evaluation step).

• %15: The list of employees who are review participants for the document.