Giving Due Credit

You’ll see in my blog roll a link to Rich Manalang’s blog – manalang.com. His blog entries on AJAX and Monkeygrease are really what sparked my interest in exploring enhancing PeopleSoft Applications with AJAX.

His blog gives a good example of how to take a PeopleSoft form and add AJAX to improve usability. Check out his posting on adding live search to a PeopleSoft Enterprise Application . His posting is using his server filter Monkey Grease, which enables him to inject the Java-Script without having to customize the search form.

If you follow Rich’s instructions, you will see the power of AJAX and PeopleSoft… However, when I followed his instructions with my Enterprise Portal application (v 8.9), the AJAX search results were different then the search results returned by delivered PeopleSoft search functionality. I had to re-write the IScript to call the search Application Package, which uses the search index group and the security filters used by the application. Once that was completed the AJAX search worked perfectly.

Live Employee Seach Directory

I’ve used verity search in combination with AJAX to enhance the company directory feature in PeopleSoft HCM. This customization allows users to search for employees based on a number of different data elements such as department name, employee name and phone numbers.

Click here to see a flash video demo:

http://s98964087.onlinehome.us/employee_search.htm

PeopleSoft & AJAX

Recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time playing with AJAX and PeopleSoft to improve usability.  While this isn’t a new thing, I haven’t seen too many examples posted on the web.  In the coming days, I’ll be posting a few examples of some of the proof of concept work, I’ve been developing… stay tuned!

Congrats to the BSkyB Portal Team

Last year, I was fortunate enough to be apart of a very successful and smooth portal implementation. The client was BSkyB (British Sky Broadcasting). The project team was based in 3 different locations spanning 2 countries (Scotland & England). I learned recently that in November of 2006, the BSkyB team was awarded the Vizual Business Tools Award for Excellence in HR Through Technology. Furthermore, their People Portal (PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal) and e-services (various Employee / Manager Self-Service modules from PeopleSoft HCM) have lived up to their promises and are currently on track to deliver the expected ROI in under two years!

Congratulations to everyone involved in BSkyB’s People Portal implementation!

http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2006/11/28/38326/hrs-stars-are-unveiled.html