Understanding Pagelet Wizard and PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal

This chapter discusses working with Pagelet Wizard and the PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal as well as data sources used when creating Pagelet Wizard pagelets that are specific to Enterprise Portal.

Note. This documentation discusses features of PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal that are available through the basic Pagelet Wizard PeopleTools only when PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal is installed.

The basic Pagelet Wizard PeopleTool is covered in Enterprise PeopleTools 8.48 PeopleBook: Internet Technology, “Using Pagelet Wizard.” Please refer to this PeopleTools PeopleBook for information about setting up and using the basic Pagelet Wizard PeopleTool.

Pagelet Wizard and PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal Overview

Pagelet Wizard is a PeopleTool that provides a user-friendly, browser-based graphical user interface (GUI) that leads you through the series of steps that are involved in creating and publishing a pagelet. When Pagelet Wizard is used with the PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal installed, portal administrators and nontechnical users can use it to build pagelets that integrate and transform data from a variety of data sources, both internal and external to the PeopleSoft system.

Data Sources for Portal-Specific Pagelet Wizard

When you use Pagelet Wizard with the PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal installed, the following additional data sources become available:

• Action Items.

  Use to make a Pagelet Wizard pagelet a publishing vehicle for upcoming action items from a list in the Action Items feature.

• Collaborative Workspace links.

  Use to create Related Links pagelets in Collaborative Workspaces. This is generally not used for any reason outside of a Collaborative Workspace.

• Community Calendar.

  Used to make a Pagelet Wizard pagelet that publishes event data from the Community Calendars feature. This data type can display events from one calendar or from multiple calendars.

• Content Management.

  Use to make a Pagelet Wizard pagelet a publishing vehicle for content that is stored in Content Management. Content Management data source pagelets are compatible with the custom display format.

• Content Management Folder

  Use to create a Pagelet Wizard pagelet that displays the content management child items (content and folders) for a given content management folder.

• Discussions.

  Use to make a Pagelet Wizard pagelet that retrieves recent posts from a forum created using the Discussion Forums feature.

• Navigation Collection.

  Note. Use to publish Navigation Collection pagelets that provide you with a alternative taxonomies of the contents stored in your portal registry.

  See Enterprise PeopleTools 8.48 PeopleBook: Internet Technology, “Working With Navigation Pages,” Creating and Maintaining Navigation Collections.

• News publications.

  Use to make a Pagelet Wizard pagelet a publishing vehicle for content that is stored in Content Management news publications. News publication data source pagelets are compatible with the custom display format.