Tiles in PeopleSoft fluid homepages

Tiles are building blocks or elements of an Home page that show information to the end user 
And enable an easy way to navigate around the system. Tiles allow users a quick way to perform routine tasks, such as decision making or monitoring. Tiles give users direct access to targeted transactions.

Creating a Tile

The below diagram clearly depicts components of a Tile and the sequence in which they should be created.

Adding tiles to the homepage

Step 1

Give access to the Source

Step 2

Give access to the Target

Step 3

Give access to the homepage

Step 4

Selected the tile to appear on homepage

Step 5

Configure the tile to mandatorily appear on homepage

Want to see a demonstration with real time example on how to create and add tiles to fluid homepage?

I have a complete session which demonstrates:

1. The Tiles overview
2. Creating the Tiles
3. Adding the Tile to fluid homepage

Below is the link to video in YouTube.

PopelSoft Fluid Tiles

However, if you want to save money by purchasing whole module instead of in parts then visit this page to get more details PeopleSoft Functional and technical online training

How to enable Signon Tracing option in PeopleSoft

Imagine a situation where you are banging your head trying to debug the PeopleCode to find out the root cause of an error/warning message appeared while doing transaction on a component. When the component is too big like JOB_DATA then its like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Fortunately, PeopleSoft has some sort solution for every problem and this particular case is not an exception. Do this to tackle it:

1. Enable the Sign on trace options
2. Sign in and do the same transaction 
3. Retrieve the trace file generated in the app server
4. Look for the place where the error/warning message has been produced

Done..!

The sign on tracing can be enabled by just appending trace=y to the URL as shown below:

As soon as the parameter is appended press Enter and the tracing options will be available. 

It is however very important to note that we must not check all the options under each category because:

• It will cause the portal to become very slow
• The generated trace file will be excessively huge 

Therefore, If for example you want to debug an error occurred on the page then simply select the options as shown in the above image and go on. You can also change the selection based on the type of debug you want to perform.

Once you are done doing the transaction, its time to locate the trace file that have been generated. The trace file can be found under:

PS_HOME/appserv/INSTANCE_NAME/LOGS

Where PS_HOME and INSTANCE_NAME can be replaced with the appropriate values for the instance you are working on. For example if PS_HOME is pt854 and INSTANCE_NAME is HRDEMO the path on a UNIX server will look like:

xx/xx/pt854/appserv/HRDEMO/LOGS

And the trace file name will be something like: OPRID_xxxxxxxx.tracesql where xxxxxxxxx will be a number.

Creating a Content Reference in PeopleSoft

In this article we going to learn how to create the navigation for the Query Report which we are talking about 
Since we now have the PS Query (TEST_QUERY_NEWHIRE) ready for the report. It's security configuration is also done so now we need to create a content reference in the portal from where the report will be run. Open the Query manager (PeopleTools > PS Query > Query Manager) again and search for the query that we have created:

Click on the link HTML as highlighted above, to open the run control page for this report in web browser:

Copy highlighted part of the URL displayed in the browser as shown above, and open the 'Structure and Content' page from the navigation - PeopleTools > Portal > Structure and Content. Go to the path Root > My Reports > Query Reports as shown below:

Click on the link 'Add Content Reference' as highlighted above to create a new content reference:

Paste the part of the URL which you copied from the browser in the beginning of this section and click on Save. The content reference is now created and with this everything is done. Now all we need to do is run the report.