Why Campus Solutions 9.2?

If you haven't gone through the CS 9.2 FAQ's yet, it is on Oracle Support. Read through and get apprised of its features. 

(Snippet from Oracle Support below)

Announced at Alliance 2014 (March 10, 2014), Oracle is making new, significant investments in Higher Ed solutions that will complement the ongoing investment in functionality to support global Higher Ed operating models in our industry-leading SIS, HCM, and ERP applications.  This includes the creation of a Campus Solutions (CS) 9.2 release, to bring customers a simpler, more productive user experience and more tailored, efficient application life-cycle management process.

 

Campus Solutions 9.2 is focused on three strategic areas:

 

• Intuitive Experience – Campus Solutions 9.2 will take advantage of the significant enhancements by leveraging  the Tools 8.54 User Experience called Fluid to provide a simpler self-service capability that is optimized for mobile devices as well as a more modern, streamlined maintenance process.
• Selective Adoption: Campus Solutions 9.2 will enable new methods for managing the Continuous Delivery Model with PeopleSoft Update Manager.  “PUM” is a new, innovative way to manage system updates, fixes, and new feature functionality as they are released. Customers can tailor their maintenance to the needs of their campus, up taking only the items that meet their needs while also reducing the time, effort, and cost required to maintain Campus Solutions.
• Innovative Functionality: The CS 9.2 release will include all the functionality that has been delivered through the Continuous Delivery Model to the CS 9.0 code line.  CS 9.2 provides the upgrade “event” many customers require to resource, budget, plan and implement the wealth of new capabilities already available to reduce their customizations and improving their business processes.

Happy To Know

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Services for Prompt Table and Translate Value Look Up

There are scenarios where a component is integrated with a third party interface to provide service. Say for example, integration Campus Solutions via AAWs using .Net. 

The entire CS functionality is exposed to the interface which has numerous PS delivered Prompts and Translate values. 

How to make sure that the integrated fields refers to the right values and prompts in this situation. Best way is to have a service which tells you the prompt and field values and share it with the third party interface to bind that up to create the drop downs.

And you don't have to create one as there are delivered services which does this job. The service PTLOOKUP retrieves the list of values from PeopleSoft and aid the development efforts.

The two service operations PTLOOKUPPROMT and PTLOOKUPXLAT

The best way to understand how it works and the expected parameters is to go and test it with the test utility. 

You might get a node error initially, then make sure you have an instance to instance routing defined on the respective SO routing tab.

PTLOOKUPPROMT Example:

PTLOOKUPXLAT Example:

Component Interface SDK for Excel

The power of CI is on two areas. Exposing the business rules + integration options. 

You can integrate CI using Java/C++/COM/Web Services. But there is a simple integration which will allow the admin staffs to easily access and review the data in an excel sheet.

That's the CI SDK for Excel. 

You can find the sample Excel SDK file under:                                                     \sdk\pscompintfc\src\com\samples\vba\sdk_bus_exp\sdk_bus_exp.xlsm

Compile the project first, enable the macros, provide the connection details and the excel can work like a from to pull and update data easily for the excel fans.

That's handy.

PeopleSoft CFO Tool

If you want to know the main features from one release to another real quick, PeopleSoft CFO Tool page is handy. Use the Cumulative Feature Overview tool to identify product features available to you when upgrading to a new release.

http://www.peoplesoftcfotool.com/

Say if I want to know whats new with Application Engine from 8.53 to 8.54:

And you have it!

You can use the tool to explore the upgrade benefits across the pillars.