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Tips and Techniques for
PeopleSoft PeopleTools
Developers
Jim Marion
PeopleTools Expert

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Program Agenda
 PeopleTools 8.53 news that did NOT make the top of

the hour
 App Classes
 TDD and PSUnit

 Writing Better Code

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PeopleTools Under
Appreciated New Features

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jQuery Now Delivered!
News that did NOT make the top of the hour
 8.53 HTML definitions
– PT_JQUERY_1_6_2_JS
– PT_JQUERY_UI_1_8_17_JS

 9.2 HTML definitions
– FIN_MBL_LIB_JQM%JS

 Note: Multiple inclusions of PT jQuery are not safe (pagelets).

See http://jjmpsj.blogspot.com/2013/06/using-peopletools-853version-of-jquery.html for resolution
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New UX Tools
News that did NOT make the top of the hour
 PeopleTools > Portal > Branding
– Branding Objects
 Upload images (not PNG), CSS, HTML (JavaScript)
 Creates App Designer managed definitions
– Accessible from iScripts
 WEBLIB_PTBR.ISCRIPT1.FieldFormula.IScript_GET_JS?ID=…
 WEBLIB_PTBR.ISCRIPT1.FieldFormula.IScript_GET_CSS?ID=…
 WEBLIB_PTBR.ISCRIPT1.FieldFormula.IScript_GET_IMAGE?ID=…

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New UX Tool Use Cases
News that did NOT make the top of the hour
 Pagelet Wizard
– JavaScripts, images, and stylesheets in pagelets
– Images for pagelet icons
– Images for navigation collections

 Pagelet Wizard Pitfalls
– Requires full iScript URL with remote pagelets
– URL site name may differ between dev/test/qa, etc, but part of a relative

URL

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Path Construction (Java 7’s Non-blocking IO)
News that did NOT make the top of the hour
REM ** file path construction;
Local JavaObject &pathsClass = GetJavaClass("java.nio.file.Paths");
Local string &fileBase = GetEnv("TMP");
Local JavaObject &testPath = &pathsClass.get(&fileBase,
CreateJavaObject("java.lang.String[]", "testfile.txt"));

REM ** prints /tmp/testfile.txt or c:\windows\temp\testfile.txt;
MessageBox(0, "", 0, 0, "Path to test: " | &testPath.toString());

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Path Exists (Java 7’s Non-blocking IO)
News that did NOT make the top of the hour
REM ** file exists;
REM ** ++ NOTE: Use PeopleCode FileExists for files ++
Local JavaObject &filesClass = GetJavaClass("java.nio.file.Files");
Local JavaObject &linkOptions =
CreateJavaObject("java.nio.file.LinkOption[]");

Local boolean &exists = &filesClass.exists(&testPath,
&linkOptions);
MessageBox(0, "", 0, 0, "Test value should be false: " | &exists);

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Move File Part I (Java 7’s Non-blocking IO)
News that did NOT make the top of the hour
REM ** create file -- not part of NIO, but necessary for example;
Local File &testFile = GetFile(&testPath.toString(), "A", "A",
%FilePath_Absolute);