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.