Understanding Buttons and Links

PeopleSoft Pure Internet Architecture provides buttons and links to help you navigate and process transactions. In general, if an action is related to navigating, then it appears as a link. If the action is truly an action, such as save or process, then it appears as a button. Click a button or link to carry out a command.

If a button appears grayed out, then that action is currently disabled. For example, when working in a transaction for the first data set from a search list, you might see the following:

This example illustrates enabled and disabled buttons for a search list.

Your only option in this case is to click the Next in List button. After you click Next in List, however, the Previous in List button will become available.

Similarly, links at the bottom of a page often enable you to move to another component page. In the following example, you can use the ID, Roles, and other links to navigate to other pages. Notice that Workflow is not a link (it is not underlined) because it is the current page:

This example illustrates page links in a component.

Tool Tips

Tool tips are pop-up text messages that appear when your mouse pointer hovers over a button or link. Sometimes called hover text, tool tips display additional information about the action that the button or link performs. Typically, tool tips display what a button or link will do and may list its keyboard hot key, if applicable.