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App Designer Taking a Long Time To Load
If you find that application designer or data mover is taking a long time to load, it could be be...
App Designer Keyboard Shortcuts
As PeopleSoft developers we spend a lot of time in Application Designer. To speed things up and m...
App Designer Security
This wiki page covers how to manage and restrict Application Designer security through permission...
Backup before Migrating a Project
One common problem with migrating Application Designer projects between your environments, is tha...
Show Hidden Borders
As of PeopleTools 8.52, there's a nifty application designer feature called "Show Hidden Borders"...
Copying Fields to a new Record
This is a time saving tip for application designer. If you are creating a new record definition a...
Definition Not Copied Check Copy Options
While copying application designer projects, if you receive an error like this: Definition Name ...
Portal Labels
When you register a component with the component registration wizard, there are a few places wher...
Record Lookup Exclusion
PeopleTools options allow for certain prompt records/tables to be excluded from an auto look up. ...
Effective Dated SQL Definitions
An interesting property with standalone SQL definitions (not record-view SQL or application engin...
View Build Sequence
If you have views that depend on each other in an application designer a project, you'll soon run...
Page Field Size
Certain fields just don't display all that well when you select average for the page field settin...
Migrations
Here's a checklist of steps when migrating Application Designer projects between a source and tar...
Find Message Catalog Entries Missing From Your Project
When you're working on a large project in Application Designer, you can end up creating or updati...
Dropping Tables for Deleted Record Definitions
While application designer makes it easy to delete record definitions, it doesn't drop the table ...
Impact Analysis
Impact analysis is about determining what impact if any a change made to a PeopleSoft definition ...
Grid Row Selection Indicator
PeopleSoft grids have the option of using a single or multi-row selection indicator. A single row...
Target Operator ID has No Access to Upgrade
If you are attempting to migrate a project between environments through application designer you ...
Filtering Upgrade Options
App designer allows you to filter the upgrade options for your project definitions. To use this f...
Record Naming Conventions
This is the naming convention (prefixes/suffixes) recommeded by PeopleSoft in PeopleBooks for Rec...
Dynamic Views
Dynamic views are SQL statements executed on the fly by the PeopleSoft component processor. This ...
PeopleTools Definitions
The following is a list of the PeopleSoft Definition Types as of PeopleTools v8.48 mapped with th...
Change Control
Change control is used in Application Designer to lock definitions and track the history of chang...
Reusing Fields
Wherever possible you should re-use fields in PeopleSoft rather than creating your own. This mini...
No Colon Page Field Property
PeopleSoft delivers a property No colon which you can set in the label tab of any page field with...
Designing Pages
There are a few things you can do to make editing pages with Application Designer a little easier...
Page Field Settings
This wiki page is dedicated to explaining the page-field settings available on the properties of ...
Setting the Processing Mode
You can set processing modes (deferred/interactive) at a number of different levels. Processing ...
Automatic Login
As a developer you need to sign in to application designer a LOT. Unless you have single sign on...
Deleting Definitions
Occasionally you may create definitions in your development environment that you discover you no ...
Browser Compare Reports
I find that browser compare reports are a lot easier to use than standard compare reports as they...
Migrating Web Services
Once you've developed a component interface based web service, how do you migrate it between envi...
Tips for Creating Views
Generally you should try to re-use views whenever possible and PeopleSoft has literally thousands...
Project Verification Checklist
This article provides a check list of steps you might want to perform for your application design...
Copying Projects
Copying to a File Before copying any project to file, make sure you have verified the following:...
Validating a Project
The validate project command in Application Designer is very important for ensuring that your pro...
Project has been updated by another user
If you are migrating projects between environments and you have modified the project in the targe...