Pagelets Overview

This chapter provides an overview of Enterprise Portal pagelets and discusses how to get started with PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal.

Understanding Enterprise Portal Pagelets

Enterprise Portal pagelets include portal pagelets that provide at-a-glance access to essential data from your system. These pagelets supplement PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal features that provide the underlying data.

The Enterprise Portal pagelets discussed in this book can be classified into one of the following pagelet types:

• Homepage pagelets.

  Homepage pagelets are primarily selected and laid out by the user and appear on the user's homepage.

  Users can personalize their portal homepages by displaying the pagelets that provide the information they want. Standard PeopleSoft role-based security ensures that users can access only the pagelets appropriate to their roles.

  Users add pagelets to their homepages clicking selecting the Content link from the menu bar on the homepage. They can configure the layout of the pagelets by clicking the Layout link from the menu bar on the homepage.

• Template pagelets.

  Template pagelets are configured by a portal administrator and appear in the menu frame alongside a destination target page.

See Also

Enterprise PeopleTools 8.48 PeopleBook: Using PeopleSoft Applications, “Setting User Preferences,” Personalizing Your Homepage

Getting Started with PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal

Essential information about getting started with your overall implementation of PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal appears in a companion volume of documentation called PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal 9 PeopleBook: Enterprise Portal Application Technology.

See Getting Started With PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal.

"Getting Started with PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal" provides information about using PeopleSoft Setup Manager to review a list of implementation tasks based on the products and features your organization is implementing. This list provides information about the components you must set up, the sequence in which you must enter data into the component tables, and links to relevant PeopleBook documentation.