Internet Technology Preface

This preface discusses:

Internet technology.
PeopleSoft portal licensing.

Internet Technology

This book describes PeopleTools internet technology, which consists of PeopleSoft Pure Internet Architecture and the PeopleTools portal technology used for creating and managing portals.

You can license the following separate products based on the PeopleTools portal technology:

Portal packs are enhancements to individual PeopleSoft applications that provide application-specific portal functionality.
PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal is a PeopleSoft application that provides general-purpose enterprise portal capabilities.

Portal packs and PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal are provided with their own documentation.

Note. The terms PeopleTools portal technology, PeopleTools base portal, portal technology, and portal are used interchangeably throughout this PeopleBook to refer to the core portal technology that's part of PeopleTools.

PeopleSoft Portal Licensing

This section provides information about PeopleSoft portal licensing options.

PeopleSoft Application License Only

When you license an application from PeopleSoft, but not a portal pack or PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal, you can still use the portal registry and basic portal functionality to navigate to applications and to search for applications within a product line database. When you license only an application but not a portal pack or PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal, you cannot build or use portal homepage pagelets.

PeopleSoft Application and Portal Pack Licenses

When you license a portal pack, but not PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal, you may only create a homepage within the application database specific to that product line. For example, if you license the HRMS portal pack, you may create a homepage with HRMS pagelets on it within the HRMS application database.

You may create new pagelets based upon the licensed applications within that application database. You may not include links to non-PeopleSoft applications, for example, policies, or external web sites or URLs.

If you license a product line’s portal pack, you cannot run those pagelets on a different product line’s portal homepage. For example, if you license an HRMS portal pack, you cannot run those HRMS pagelets on a CRM homepage. You can only mix pagelets from different application databases within an Enterprise Portal configuration.

PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal License

The PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal license enables you to integrate content from any source (PeopleSoft or non-PeopleSoft). You may create pagelets based upon any application that you have licensed from PeopleSoft. You may also create pagelets that allow integration of non-PeopleSoft applications or content, as long as your third-party license allows you to do so. There are no audience restrictions with PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal.

About These PeopleBooks

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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.