PeopleSoft Enterprise Advanced Configurator for CRM Preface

This preface discusses:

PeopleSoft Enterprise Advanced Configurator 8.9 PeopleBook.
PeopleSoft Enterprise Order Capture 8.9 PeopleBook.

PeopleSoft Enterprise Advanced Configurator 8.9 PeopleBook

The PeopleSoft Enterprise Advanced Configurator 8.9 PeopleBook provides implementation and processing information for the Advanced Configurator application. Information is organized into these topics:

Getting Started provides an overview of the application's basic concepts, capabilities, implementation phases, and tools.
Product Modeling with a Component Model explains how to build the central component of a configuration implementation, the model, to represent a product or service, using PeopleSoft Visual Modeler.
Product Modeling with a Compound Model explains how to represent a product or service with parts that are themselves configurable.
Application Extensions describes how to build specific functionality by calling or extending Advanced Configurator Java APIs.
PeopleSoft Enterprise Order Capture Integration describes how to set up Advanced Configurator for configuration sessions from within the PeopleSoft Enterprise Order Capture application.
Building a Custom User Interface details the front-end components that allow you to build a completely custom configuration interface for hosting on an independent production environment.
Mobile Product Configuration explains the capabilities of the mobile configuration components and their setup and maintenance for a disconnected field user base.
Advanced Configurator System Administration describes how to use the deployment and testing tools to validate and maintain configuration implementations.

In addition to the core reference sections of this PeopleBook, there are six appendixes:

Visual Modeler Expression Editor Functions lists the many operators and functions available for writing expressions to describe model behavior.
Creating and Adding User-Defined Functions is a tutorial for writing your own functions for use in creating expressions for a model.
Advanced Configurator Form Controls provides a reference for the HTML and JSP code that renders each of the form controls available for a custom configuration interface.
Compound Model Properties File provides a hard-copy reference for the compound model properties file in two versions: annotated and non-annotated.
Node-Circuit-Hub Service Sample Model describes a sample complex product (communications services) offering that includes the XML representation of its compound structure definition
Mobile Configurator COM API is a developer's reference for the classes and methods that allow a Mobile Order Capture user to initiate a configuration session with Mobile Configurator.

There is a glossary of terms at the end of the book.

PeopleSoft Enterprise Order Capture 8.9 PeopleBook

Additional essential information describing the setup and design of your system appears in a companion volume of documentation called PeopleSoft Enterprise Order Capture 8.9 PeopleBook.

The PeopleSoft Enterprise Order Capture 8.9 PeopleBook consists of topics that apply if you are integrating PeopleSoft Enterprise Order Capture with Advanced Configurator.

About These PeopleBooks

A companion PeopleBook called About These PeopleBooks contains general information, including:

Related documentation, common page elements, and typographical conventions for PeopleBooks.
Information about using PeopleBooks and managing the PeopleBooks Library.
Information on the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) country and currency codes used within PeopleBooks.
A glossary of useful PeopleSoft terms that are used in PeopleBooks.