Guidelines for Sections in a Cluster

This section provides guidelines to administrators on the behavior of sections and tiles in a homepage when these homepages appear in a cluster environment.

This section discusses:

  • Sections and tiles on merged homepages.

  • Application nodes on PeopleTools versions prior to PeopleTools 8.61.

Sections and Tiles on Merged Homepages

The rules that govern the merging of homepages in a cluster also apply to sections. That is, in a merged homepage, if sections with the same label exist, then the sections are merged. The rules that apply to a traditional homepage (a homepage without sections) continue to exist.

For example, if the HRMS application contains a homepage with a section labeled as Benefits and the FSCM application contains a homepage with a section labeled as Benefits, then the merged homepage displays the Benefits section as a merged section with tiles from both the application nodes.

On a merged homepage, the section order defined on the signed-in application is honored. It is recommended that administrators pay particular attention to the order number of sections such that users experience consistency when they sign in to any of the application nodes.

When you set the CLUSTER_AWARE content reference attribute for a tile, the system uses the tile from the local application node instead of the tile from the remote application node. In a merged homepage, the location of the tile with the cluster aware attribute is as defined on the local application node.

Application Nodes on PeopleTools Versions Prior to PeopleTools 8.61

When an application node running at least PeopleTools 8.61 receives a request to get its homepages and tiles, some homepages and tiles are not pushed out to remote nodes if the remote nodes are running PeopleTools versions prior to PeopleTools 8.61.

The following are not pushed out to remote nodes running PeopleTools versions prior to PeopleTools 8.61:

  • Sectionalized homepages and dashboards.

  • Homepages and dashboards that are disabled for end-user personalization.

  • Empty-section tiles, that is, tiles with the EMPTY_SECTION_TILE content reference attribute.

  • Tiles hidden from homepage personalization, that is, tiles with the HIDE_IN_PERSONALIZE content reference attribute.