Understanding Composite Reports

When performing a PeopleSoft application upgrade, part of the process involves identifying the customizations made on your previous database and ensuring that all customizations are reflected in the upgraded database. During the development of a new PeopleSoft application release, many changes are made to the underlying metadata of the PeopleSoft application. If your application database is highly customized, it's likely that you've customized at least some of the definitions that PeopleSoft has modified in the new release. You identify your customizations and PeopleSoft modifications by running compare reports.

For example, suppose you are performing an upgrade from PeopleSoft 8.1x applications to PeopleSoft 8.4x applications. To identify your customizations, you run compare reports between your current 8.1x production database and the delivered 8.1x DEMO database. Then, to view your customizations and the PeopleSoft modifications after your 8.1x database has been upgraded to the 8.4x version, you run compare reports between your upgraded database and the delivered DEMO version of the 8.4x database.

Generating composite reports during this process greatly enhances your ability to identify the definitions that both you have customized and that PeopleSoft has modified. Composite reports compare your previous compare reports to the target database. The information in the previous compare reports is considered a subset of the composite reports. That is, all data appearing in the previous compare reports also appears on the composite reports, and those attributes that were updated by your organization and PeopleSoft will be highlighted.

The report output displays the changed attributes of the definitions so that you can determine the level and granularity of your customizations and how much effort will be involved in reapplying your customizations during the upgrade. This information can assist the decision making process when assessing the upgrade project scope.

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Composite reports are not a comprehensive record of all changes in the system. They only reflect definitions that have been changed by PeopleSoft and by a customer implementation.

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Composite reports do not replace compare reports. Rather, a composite report provides an alternate display of the information in compare reports, showing information appearing in both old release and new release compare reports.

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Composite reports are generated only for definitions that exist within both databases. For example, Analytic Model definitions used for the PeopleSoft Analytic Calculation Engine do not exist in a PeopleTools 8.1x application database. If comparing between a PeopleTools 8.1x application database and a PeopleTools 8.47 application database, a composite report for Analytic Model definitions will not be generated, as those definitions do not exist within a PeopleTools 8.1x database.