Fluid UI Deployment – Tips, Tricks and Considerations

Listed below are some key considerations and helpful tips for designing and deploying PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface. Homepages Delivered homepages align to oracle’s published standards of either role based or function based design like Employee/Manager Self-service or Workforce Admin, Procurement Operations etc. While there are many ways to skin this cat, a role based design…

Enhancing Fluid Forms with PeopleCode Event Mapping

Fluid Forms and Approval Builder is a handy utility that provides an alternative to paper based processes in a organization. It’s key features are the out-of-the-box integration with, File Attachments Approval Workflow Engine Component Interface Mapping It is ideally suitable for building simple forms, collecting file attachments from users, invoking workflow approval process involving multiple…

Classical Search for Fluid Components

One of the major changes between Classic and Fluid UI is the ‘Search’ options available for accessing a component (transaction). The classical way of search pages which get built automatically based on a search record associated with a component is not readily available in Fluid UI. This is an area of frequent debate and concern…

Fluid Navigation 101

Highlights from the presentation on Navigation in Fluid UI at Alliance 2017 conference. Fluid UI changes the way users navigate within PeopleSoft applications. It is intuitive for users and offers multiple paths to destination. Crucial aspect of a successful Fluid deployment is designing and implementing navigation that make sure your users continue to work productively.…

Removing ‘Classic Home’ in Fluid UI

Following an earlier blog on Staying classic in PT 8.55, I received a question on ‘Removing Classic Home’ option from the navigation bar which is available by default in PT 8.55. Personalisation feature in classic home allows user to select ‘Left Hand Menu’ as navigation option, which could be a hack for users to revert…

Enabling Fluid Approvals (MAP) in PS Environments

Starting PeopleTools 8.54 approvals in PeopleSoft applications can be enabled for Fluid usage using Mobile Application Platform (MAP) technology. Setting up this feature was quite tricky in earlier days involving wide range of manual configuration and validation steps. In the recent update images for demo environments delivered in PT 8.55 most of these steps are…

Fluid Candidate Gateway – First look

In my earlier posts I had shared my first hand experience of using deployment packages and Oracle Cloud service.While deployment packages drastically reduced the time and effort to setup a PS demo environment, now combining it with the power of cloud and marketplace, Oracle has taken this efficiency to a whole new level. Update image…