Peoplesoft Developer's Handbook |
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| Richard Gillespie, Joann Gillespie |
| June 1999, Computing McGraw-Hill, Paperback, 488 pages, ISBN 0071349723
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| A real-world reference on how an application is developed with PeopleSoft software (PeopleTools), including information on relational entities, data objects, default functionality, and error checking. The book uses detailed, step-by-step examples of an actual application created by the author for a client, and includes a multitude of screen shots and CD-ROM screen cam files that explain exactly how to implement these examples. |
Part I: Journey Into PeopleSoft Application Development
Describe the Application Requirements. Break Down the Requirements
into Relational Entitites
Map the Entities to PeopleSoft Fields and Records
Build the Records (SQL Tables and Views)
Create the Panels (Single and Multi Scroll)
Create the Panel Groups (Search Records)
Create the Menus
Grant Access to the User (Security Administrator)
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II: Testing Our Application
Automating Testing with SQA
Part III: Enhancing Our Application with PeopleCode
Introduction
to PeopleCode
Setting Defaults on the Search Screen
Performing Automatic Calculations
Part IV: Enhancing Applications w/Business Process Maps
Business Process Maps
Part V: Creating Reports
SQR
Query
NVision
Part VI: Importing Data
Importing Data with SQA
Importing Data with SQR
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Review-Date: 3/4/2002 Rating: 2 Summary: Good contents + bad unit testing + ugly editing = 2 stars
Completed (well almost, more on that later) the whole book on a PS v7.5 standalone machine in about 10–12 man hours. Here‘s my review:
The Good:
1. Lots of exercises/repetitions.
2. Liberal use of graphics for easy sign–posts.
3. Very organized overall.
The Bad:
1. Lots of exercises/repetitions. Perhaps too much?
2. Plenty of typos and outright missed some elements – one should figure out the workarounds after doing the exercises thanks for the easy following sign–posts, however. Although some were not obvious and can frustrate beginners and cause them to abandon course before completion. Definitely a case of quantity over quality in lights of The Bad #1 above.
3. Can‘t fully see your own exercise lab‘s results until the END of the WHOLE book. It should encourage the best pratice of unit testing after each panel completion in the lab; this is a big one to miss by the book‘s authors since unit testing is a fundamental task of software application development life–cycle methodology.
4. Did not offer a forum/email/website for post–published corrections/user feedbacks. Did the publishers/authors really expect version 1 of their technical book to be error–free?
The Ugly:
1. Between the "Security" and the "Testing the Application" chapters, the authors didn‘t bother to tell us HOW to compile the application for TESTING. Hello, did the dog ate the WHOLE chapter on codes compilation here?
Review-Date: 12/9/2001 Rating: 3 Summary: Better have your glasses handy
Very hard to read the text in the screen shots. This book does not pertain to any application like HR or Payroll. But it does a good job covering peopletools. I need a book that covers HR and Pension applications using HR database tables and columns. I work on HR interfaces to existing mainframe systems but would like to learn online/peopletools.
Review-Date: 12/9/2001 Rating: 3 Summary: Better have your glasses handy
Very hard to read the text in the screen shots. This book does not pertain to any application like HR or Payroll. But it does a good job covering peopletools. I need a book that covers HR and Pension applications using HR database tables and columns.
Review-Date: 1/5/2000 Rating: 3 Summary: Good book for beginners.
I am new to PeopleSoft and enjoyed the book as it provided hands–on learning, however, there were so many type–o‘s that it was quite frustrating trying to follow along. Also, I wish more topics had been covered in the detail that Application Designer was covered. If you want to learn any PeopleTools other than AppDesigner, this is not your book. The sections on nVision, Query, and PeopleCode are lacking to say the least.
Review-Date: 12/6/1999 Rating: 3 Summary: Quality Lacking in Screen Images
I just purchased the book and have not read it completely, but I was surprised at the poor quality of many of the screen shots. Blurry, fuzzy, some small details lost in some. As one other reviewer noted, there are a lot of screen images (good), but I would have expected better quality and clarity. Sometimes the details of the windows/panels are important – especially to PeopleSoft newcomers. I was also surprised that I could find no e–mail addresses for the authors to pass my comments onto directly.
Review-Date: 8/24/1999 Rating: 4 Summary: A Good Beginners Book
I am new to PeopleSoft and I found this book very useful. The delivered documentation fails to put any of the objects in order, making it very hard to get up and running. This book although repetitive in several areas gave me a good understanding of how to create new PeopleSoft functionality.
Review-Date: 8/10/1999 Rating: 3 Summary: Typos, typos, typos...
Overall good introduction to the Applications Designer, but loaded with typos. Screen shots make up the bulk of the book. Very repetative text which is good for beginers but cumbersome for itermediates and advanced developers.
Review-Date: 7/27/1999 Rating: 3 Summary: Should be called Application Designer Overview instead.
Of the 592 pages, 460 are devoted to the Application Designer (PeopleTools). The remaining cover Peoplecode, SQR, Crystal,Nvision Configuration manager and a tiny bit on upgrades. I would hardly call it a Handbook as all it does is go through an example.Having taken Peopletools 1 and 2 from Peoplesoft, this book was review material only. This is a good refresher however, but unlike Oracle you cant really practice unless your company actually has Peoplesoft that they let you play with.
Review-Date: 6/10/1999 Rating: 5 Summary: Reading a book before it is published
I read the manuscript on the publishers betabook site last month. It was rough manuscript but I got to see the content. Don‘t abuse a book by giving it one star when you don‘t know all the facts.
Review-Date: 5/26/1999 Rating: 1 Summary: What book?
How the hell do people get to read the book if it is not yet available
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