Understanding PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface Homepages

Oracle’s PeopleSoft has two user interfaces:

• PeopleSoft Classic User Interface, which was designed to be used on a laptop and desktop.

  This interface was previously known as PIA (PeopleSoft Internet Architecture).

• PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface, which was designed to be used on mobile devices, but can also be used on a laptop and desktop.

  Oracle delivers fluid pages for a variety of PeopleSoft HCM self-service transactions.

Fluid mode is enabled in web profiles. If fluid mode is not enabled, fluid pages and content references throughout the system are not enabled. Users can still access the classic versions of pages that have both classic and fluid versions, but transactions that exist only as fluid components are not accessible. If fluid mode is enabled, an additional web profile setting controls whether fluid mode is available on desktop devices as well as mobile devices. On desktop devices, fluid pages appear only if the browser supports the PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface. Users with older browsers see only classic pages even if fluid mode is enabled for desktop devices.

PeopleTools documentation regarding the PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface includes:

• PeopleTools: Applications User's Guide, Working With PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface.

• PeopleTools: Fluid User Interface Developer’s Guide

Video: How to Switch Between PeopleSoft Fluid and Classic User Interfaces

Homepages are collections of tiles that users tap to access transactions. A homepage can display different tiles on different form factors. For example, several of the tiles on the delivered employee self-service homepage do not show up on small form factors (phones).

Users can have multiple homepages. When users sign into the system, the user’s default homepage displays. To access a different homepage, the user taps the homepage title and then selects a different homepage from the list that appears.

Tapping a tile on a homepage opens the corresponding transaction. Most of the delivered tiles open fluid pages, but a few open classic pages.

Homepage tiles also can display dynamic information, such as the last pay date or the number of current performance documents. Personalization options enable users to choose which tiles appear on each homepage.

PeopleSoft HCM includes several delivered homepages. The delivered homepages and their tiles are described in these topics:

• Using the Employee Self-Service Homepage

• Using the Manager Self-Service Homepage

• Using the Workforce Administrator Homepage

• Using the Talent Administrator Homepage

• Using the Recruiting Homepage

Video: PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface Experience in HCM

Video: PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface Concepts

If a fluid page is equivalent to a classic page, then in fluid mode, the classic menu provide navigation to the fluid page rather than to the classic page.

For example, when you are not in fluid mode, the classic menu includes the path Self Service > Payroll and Compensation > View Paycheck, which provides access to the classic View Paycheck page. In fluid mode, this menu path is not available, and instead the classic menu provides a path to the fluid page: Self Service > Payroll and Compensation > Pay. This substitution means that the classic page is not accessible at all in fluid mode.

The logic that directs users to fluid page rather than an equivalent classic page is known as conditional navigation. Conditional navigation is also the mechanism that displays the fluid home when users initially access the system on a mobile device.

If a user on a desktop or laptop accesses a fluid homepage and taps a tile, conditional navigation logic will not redirect the users to a classic page. Note, however, that PeopleSoft HCM delivers some tiles that open classic pages. This is not a function of conditional navigation. The tile opens a classic page because there is no fluid version of the page. The tile functions solely as a navigational shortcut to the classic page.

Documentation for the delivered homepages includes information about conditional navigation for the delivered fluid transactions:

• Employee Self Service Homepage

• Manager Self Service Homepage

A standard banner appears at the top of every fluid page. The banner includes the page title and these standard buttons: