4.1 Understanding PeopleSoft Content Provider Access

The PeopleSoft Interaction Hub allows direct access to your PeopleSoft content provider databases from the portal. This direct access includes homepage pagelets and navigation. The method of access can be a single link from the portal navigation pointing into the PeopleSoft content provider navigation, or physically storing the PeopleSoft content provider registry data within the PeopleSoft Interaction Hub.

Physically storing the registry data within the PeopleSoft Portal Solutions allows you to have your entire navigation in an aggregated location. However, using the single link approach greatly increases the simplicity of your security setup as well as future upgrades. For these reasons, Oracle recommends that navigation to the PeopleSoft content provider be accomplished by way of a single link within the PeopleSoft Portal Solutions database.

Note:

When all the databases are on PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.52 or later, Oracle recommends using the Unified Navigation feature to access content provider database. The tasks described below are no longer required when Unified Navigation is used.

To facilitate the recommended approaches to accessing the PeopleSoft content provider database, the tasks in this chapter use the following notations:

• Required—Perform during the installation phase.

  This is required for subsequent tasks, Enabling PeopleSoft 8.5x Homepage Personalization (Required) and Determining PeopleSoft Portal Solutions Database Default (Required).

• Recommended—Perform during the installation and implementation phases.

  This indicates the recommended approach and applies to the task, Accessing PeopleSoft by Single Link (Recommended).

  Oracle recommends that you access the PeopleSoft 8.5x content provider portal registry data by way of a single link in the PeopleSoft Portal Solutions database.

• Reference—Optionally perform during the implementation phase.

  This indicates that the material is listed in this guide only as a reference. This applies to tasks Installing PeopleSoft 8.5x Portal Pack Project (Reference) and Maintaining Roles and User IDs (Reference).

  Delivered portal projects have been created in a PeopleSoft 8.5x format enabling them to successfully and correctly copy into the PeopleSoft Portal Solutions database on PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.5x.

  Instructions to physically store the PeopleSoft 8.5x content provider portal registry data within the PeopleSoft Portal Solutions database are located in the appendixes of this installation guide. The tasks in this chapter point you to the correct documents.