App Designer Tutorial

What is an application designer? Application Designer is an integrated development environment that enables you to work with the numerous objects of a business application in a single work area.

Features in App Designer

Multiple Document interface Drag and Drop Pop - up Menus Property sheets Dynamic tool bars and Menus Application designer Components

Steps to Designing an Application. 1)Design the Application 2)Define new Fields 3)Create the Record Definition 4)Build the Record 5)Create Page Definition 6)Define the Component 7)Create the Menu Definition 8)Enable Security 9)Test the Application. Important Points to Remember in App Designer.Field Individual pieces of data—such as an employee ID—that can be entered by the user and stored in the database or a column on a table or in a view. Field is column in a table or Record. What is Record?

All the data that resides in PeopleSoft applications is stored in tables, or records, as part of a relational database system. Each record definition describes the properties of an underlying SQL table.

Record is a collection of Fields

What is Page?

Pages provide a way to enter, view, and edit data online

Collection of records.

What is Component?

Represents a logical business transaction or a set of logically related pages that are processed together. collection of pages

What is Menu?

Enables access to the components you build, along with the pages contained in the components

Collection of Components What is Project? A user-defined collection of related object definitions created for the purpose of developing, customizing, or upgrading a PeopleSoft application.

SQL Can be entire SQL programs, or just fragments of SQL statements that you want to re-use.

Style Sheet

A collection of styles that can be used by Internet Architecture application pages.

Activity

A map showing the individual steps, events, and routings that comprise a complete activity within a business process.

Application Engine

A program comprising SQL statements and PeopleCode programs to be run in batch mode, as an alternative to using COBOL

File Layout Definition (or mapping) of a file to be processed. It identifies where in a file data fields are located. Component Interface Externalizes access to a component, so it can be used by a third party or an application message

Start the Development by:

1.Create a new project(Optional). File>New>Project

2. Set Project Options(Optional). Tools>Options

3. Name and save the Project(Optional). File>Save Project As