Drop Zones - Isolate Customizations

Drop Zones

One of the most powerful aspects of peoplesoft is its ability to customize the application to cater the unique business requirements of the customer.

However, this comes with a cost of huge maintenance and slow uptake of the latest updates/images from Oracle.

Peoplesoft has come up with a new feature -  Drop Zones, that allow customers to continue with their customizations and at the same time isolate these changes from the delivered product.

In this post I will give detailed steps on how to use the Drop Zone feature in peoplesoft and also how to combine the event mapping framework to achieve business customizations without touching the delivered code.

For our example, we are going to take the Department table -

Root > Set Up HCM > Foundation Tables > Organization > Departments

Below is the delivered Depatment table page:

Let us assume now the Customer wants to capture additional information apart from what is delivered.

If you open the page DEPARTMENT_TBL_GBL in app designer, you can find  the stub placed by peoplesoft for the drop zone configuration and this is at level 0.

Step1 - Creating a Sub Page to store custom detail

 

I have created a physical table as below to capture the custom business information:

Create a sub page with the appropriate scroll level and add the custom fields on to the sub page:

Step2 - Linking the Custom Sub Page to the Component

PeopleTools > Portal > Configure Drop Zones

Navigate to the Configure Drop Zone page and Search for the Component Department Table.

Associate the custom sub page that we created above to the appropriate Drop Zone.

For more details on information about the fields in this page, click here - Peoplebooks.

This completes the steps to add Customizations to achive unique cases for customers without impacting the delivered objects.

Navigate to the department table component to see the newly added custom fields to capture additional information.