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PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools 8.4 to 8.49 Cumulative Feature Overview January 2007 Release 8.43 PeopleTools 8.43 introduces performance enhancements for the PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal. Self-service applications need to support a very large number of concurrent users. In addition, data privacy considerations do not allow use of web browser based caching as a performance optimization. PeopleTools is making available a server-based pagelet cache as a performance optimization. This extends support for better performance to a larger set of self-service users while consuming less systems resources. The PeopleTools 8.42 Internet Technology PeopleBook provides an overview of PeopleSoft Internet Technology, and discusses the base portal technology delivered with PeopleTools. • In the current release, you can define a browser window title for your portal home page and any unregistered content. The title is taken from the value of the Long Description field in the portal definition. If you leave this field blank, the browser window title is taken from the Portal Name field. • PeopleTools portal technology now implements caching for individual pagelets. You can also control whether the user is able to refresh the pagelet manually. • When you use a pagelet to present an existing PeopleSoft application page that’s documented in the accompanying PeopleBooks, you can configure the pagelet to display its own help button, which will invoke the same help link and display context-sensitive help, either PeopleBooks or your own HTML documentation. • We have added a new configuration property to improve the session timeout behavior when using the portal byPassSignOn feature. • We have added a property that allows you to produce more detailed error messages in the application server log file. Release 8.44 • New in PeopleTools 8.44, a web profile is a named group of configuration settings that the portal applies throughout a PeopleSoft system to control all portal-related behavior. Web profiles replace and enhance the settings that were previously configured by editing several text files. They use a PeopleSoft page interface that makes the configuration process easier, more versatile, and more straightforward. • You have the option in PeopleTools 8.44 to use menu folder navigation. By implementing menu folder navigation, you change the behavior of a folder’s menu name in the navigation pagelet. Instead of expanding the menu to reveal its child entries, clicking the menu name opens a specified content reference in the target content region and expands the menu to show the navigation path to that content reference. • PeopleSoft portals store content references based on their URLs, so you can’t register two content references that specify the same URL. Content reference links overcome this limitation by enabling you to define multiple menu items that invoke a given URL. A content reference link enables you to connect users to an existing content reference using a different navigation, possibly with different properties in effect than on the original. • Content reference attributes provide a framework to specify and store freeform information about a content reference. For example, you can use content reference Copyright © 2006 Oracle. All rights reserved. 17
PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools 8.4 to 8.49 Cumulative Feature Overview January 2007 attributes to specify and store keywords, help information, and related links for content references. • In PeopleTools 8.44, you can now base non-inherited object security on roles as well as permission lists. You can specify any combination of roles and permission lists to provide content reference or folder security. • Use the Portal Security Synchronization page to reinstate the correct security relationships between objects in the portal registry after you copy a project that contains portal objects. The Portal Security Synchronization page enables you to execute the Application Engine program PORTAL_CSS from the standard menu navigation. • The PeopleSoft system provides several automated queries for retrieving content reference security details, menu security details, menu item details, and folder structure information. In the security administration components, you can use query links to discover the content references to which a given user, permission list, or role has access. • You can anticipate the unavailability of pagelets by specifying a timeout period during which each pagelet must load. This improves portal homepage performance by enabling the system to present the homepage quickly in spite of an individual pagelet's unavailability. • Because of numerous small enhancements, PeopleTools 8.44 caching functionality is easier to implement, more versatile, and more efficient than in previous releases. • JSR 168 is a standard for portals running in a Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) architecture. It is designed to enable portlets and portals from different vendors to interoperate. The PeopleSoft portal includes a new portlet engine to manage the registered portlets that are defined according to the JSR 168 standard. Release 8.45 This section discusses changes and enhancements in the following areas for Internet Technology: • Portal Caching has been added to PeopleSoft Internet Technology. Web server-based navigation caching boosts performance considerably by automatically storing cached data on the web server as users select items from the navigation menu. This form of caching ultimately saves unnecessary calls to the application server. • A new Cache Menu property has been added to the Web Server section of the Web Profile Caching page. Select to enable web server-based navigation caching. • Portal security improvements include a safeguard when retrieving secure HTTPS content, and a new option to remove nonexisting roles and permission lists from folders and content references. • Previously, users had to manually add any new permission lists to Worklist type content references to allow users to access the worklist menu and link. A new URL type “Worklist URL” has now been created to enable you to enter the required component information. This, in turn, will synchronize security. • When a page is generated, the browser now issues timeout warnings every 20 minutes. If Copyright © 2006 Oracle. All rights reserved. 18
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