Peoplesoft for the Admin in you
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New Downloads section
I’ve created a new Downloads section where I will start placing items for download. Access to the Downloads section will be restricted to those who have registered with the site. These will be programs and utilities created by me, and as such, are all considered beta unless otherwise specified. Registration with a working email address…
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PeopleSoft 2013 Salary Survey
I saw a post on the IT Toolbox that pointed me over to The PeopleSoft Career Guy’s blog. He did a PeopleSoft Professional Salary Survey from Jan 1 – Feb 1 2013 and will update the Survey every quarter as well. For us Admin’s straight to the numbers he got. Avg Admin income was $118,123, Avg…
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PeopleSoft Unified Navigation with PeopleSoft Applicatations Portal / Interaction Hub
With Portal 9.1 Feature Pack 1, which was released just over a year ago, came a new feature I finally got the chance to use. Unified Navigation. In this post I’ll walk through setting this up in one of my demo environments. Using the Unified Navigation WorkCenter makes configuring this feature pretty easy to set up. …
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PeopleTools 8.53 released
I must have missed it earlier this month but I see Oracle has finally release PeopleTools 8.53. It looks like upgrade templates are available as well. Here are some of the things I saw in a brief glance at the release notes (I’ll read them in more detail later). A bunch of this was announced…
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When PeopleSoft Cache goes Bad
In general Cache is a good thing, but sometimes things go wrong. I usually try to avoid clearing cache unless I have a real reason. In my experience clearing cache without reason usually only adds to the end users perception that PeopleSoft is a slow painful application to work with, and we know PeopleSoft gets…
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Return of the “ptcommonobj is undefined”
I previously wrote a post about getting the error “ptcommonobj is undefined” in the web browser and having modal windows, search look-ups, and other things not working in PeopleSoft. Well not so long ago this struck me again. This time though no PeopleTools upgrades had occurred and there was no proxy or caching devices between…
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Why you should have different local node passwords
I was doing an assessment of a Peoplesoft installation recently when I noticed that the node passwords were the same across all environments of the same application type. While this might not seem like it is a big deal, it can open up a production environment to unauthorized access or accidental data entry. If this…
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS upgrade
I ran a few servers that were Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I decided I’d upgrade them to 12.04 LTS now that its out. Though this doesn’t have anything to do with PeopleSoft, I figured I’d post the how to anyhow. Here are the steps: Make a backup of what ever you may need for how ever…
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Creating a Custom PeopleSoft Sign On Page
I had a few spare cycles the other day and decided I’d make the PeopleSoft Sign On page look a bit more attractive. So here’s a run down on what I did. All these changes are made in the signin.html. I placed a high res image as the background. It’s setup to resize to 100%…
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Cannot establish HTTP connection
Recently I had a problem with a WebEx PeopleSoft setup. Users testing in a development environment were reporting they got the following error “Cannot establish HTTP connection (158,2842)”. I tried pinging one of the external nodes used for WebEx. I also received “Cannot establish HTTP connection”. The URL defined on the node looked OK, and…
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