Enterprise Portal Application Technology Preface

This preface discusses:

• PeopleTools and PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal.

• PeopleSoft Community Portal.

• Pages Used to <Process Name> sections.

• Additional resources.

• Deferred processing.

• Common elements used in Enterprise Portal application technology.

PeopleTools and PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal

To understand the functionality of PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal, you must familiarize yourself with the portal technology features of PeopleTools. PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal builds upon the basic internet architecture that is delivered with PeopleTools.

PeopleSoft recommends that you familiarize yourself with PeopleTools, focusing especially on the chapters that are devoted to portal functionality. This gives you an excellent foundation of knowledge upon which the PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal Suite of PeopleBooks builds.

See Also

Enterprise PeopleTools 8.48 PeopleBook: Internet Technology.

PeopleSoft Community Portal

The PeopleSoft Community Portal joins PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal as an option for creating a portal experience using PeopleSoft’s portal platform.

The PeopleSoft Community Portal has the same features and functions as the PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal. However, with the PeopleSoft Community Portal, you are limited to creating and managing a maximum of three sites. With the PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal, you can create and manage an unlimited number of sites.

See Also

Introducing the PeopleSoft Community Portal

Pages Used to <Process Name> Sections

In the documentation, each page or panel in the application is included in an introductory table that contains pertinent information about the page. These process introduction tables appear under headings that follow the naming convention of "Pages Used to <Process Name>" where the process name reflects a business process that is meant to be accomplished by using the pages or panels in the table. Not all of the information is available for all pages or panels. This example shows a process introduction table with more information about the contents of each column:

Process introduction table example

Additional Resources

The following resources are located on the PeopleSoft Customer Connection website:

Deferred Processing

Several pages in Enterprise Portal application technology features operate in deferred processing mode. Most fields on these pages are not updated or validated until you save the page or refresh it by clicking a button, link, or tab. This delayed processing has various implications for the field values on the page. For example, if a field contains a default value, any value that you enter before the system updates the page overrides the default. Another implication is that the system updates quantity balances or totals only when you save or otherwise refresh the page.

Using This PeopleBook

Chapters in this PeopleBook are grouped into the following parts. See the associated references for more information about the chapters and general content included in each part.

• Portal Administration

  See Portal Administration.

• Search

  See Search.

• Navigation

  See Navigation.

• Site Management

  See Site Management.

• Intelligent Context Manager™

  See Intelligent Context Manager.

• Integration

  See Integration.

This PeopleBook also contains the appendixes on the following topics:

• Delivered security data.

  See PeopleSoft-Delivered Security Data.

• Common functions that reference a password data store.

  See Using Common Functions That Reference a Password Data Store.

• Template pagelet design for Intelligent Context Manager.

  See Designing Template Pagelets For Intelligent Context Manager.

Other PeopleBooks that cover functionality delivered by PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal include:

• Branding

  See Enterprise Portal Branding Overview.

• Content Publication and Management

  See Understanding Enterprise Portal Content Management and Publication.

• Resource Finder

  See Enterprise Portal Resource Finder Overview.

• Collaboration

  See Enterprise Portal Collaboration Preface.

• Pagelet Development

  See Pagelet Development Overview.

• Pagelets

  See Pagelets Overview.

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.

See Also

About These PeopleBooks Preface

Using PeopleBooks

Managing the PeopleSoft Online Library and PeopleBooks

ISO Country and Currency Codes

Glossary of PeopleSoft Enterprise Terms

Common Elements Used in Enterprise Portal Application Technology

This section provides discusses the common elements used in Enterprise Portal Application Technology features.

Using the Formatted Text and HTML Editor

The Formatted Text and HTML Editor enables you to format text on pages with HTML areas in the Manage HTML Pagelets component.

Note. The HTML editor functionality is only available with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or above. For other browser versions the HTML edit area displays plain text.

Using the Formatted Text and HTML Editor, you can:

• Bold, italicize, and underline text.

• Change the text font, size, and color.

• Left, center, or right-justify paragraphs.

• Create bulleted or numbered lists.

• Indent paragraphs.

• Insert horizontal lines.

• Insert hyperlinks and images.

• Insert tables.

• View the raw HTML source of formatted text.

Access the Formatted Text and HTML Editor on an applicable transaction page.

Formatted Text and HTML Editor

To execute cut, copy, and paste commands, use the standard Microsoft Windows keyboard shortcuts.