Recent Posts

Using Generic Templates to Send Emails
I’d earlier written about sending HTML emails from PeopleCode here and more recently here. In both these posts, the email text was hardcoded thereby making it not possible for the… Read more

How to Send an HTML Email Using MCF Class
HTML emails are way better than the boring text emails. In this post, I will show you how to send an HTML email using the MCFOutboundEmail Class. This method gives you a flexible solution that is very easy to use – as easy as using SendMail().

Installing Oracle 12c Client
It’s very important to have your SQL client to take full advantage of your local PeopleSoft installation. In this step-by-step tutorial, I will show you how to get your SQL Developer up and running in minutes.

Installing PeopleTools 8.58
In this step-by-step tutorial, I will show to get the latest PeopleTools up and running on your laptop within minutes so that you can fully utilise your local PeopleSoft installation.

How to Install PeopleSoft on Your Laptop
If you want to have your own local PeopleSoft installation, look no further. This post shows you exactly what I did to install PeopleSoft 9.2 / PeopleTools 8.54 on my Windows 8.1 laptop using Oracle VM Virtualbox.

How to Open an Email Client with PeopleCode
When there’s an email id displayed on a page, wouldn’t it be cool for your users to be able click on it and have their email client (like Microsoft Outlook) open up a blank mail with the email id and subject line filled in? Here’s how to do it in PeopleCode.

Oracle Open World 2014 Presentations Download
Oracle has made the presentations used at Open World 2014 available for download this time too. Here are all the ones that are related to PeopleSoft.

Optional Prompting in PS Query
If you don’t fill in a prompt when running a PS Query, the query usually returns no row. If you want the query to still fetch data (ignoring the condition), this post is for you.

You Don’t Have to Write PeopleCode to Create an XML / BI Publisher Report using PS Query!
This post will help you create your first XML Publisher report using Query as a data source. If you are a business user or a functional consultant trying to learn this reporting tool, you have come to the right place.

Getting Ready to Generate XML / BI Publisher Reports
Looking to learn XML / BI Publisher? This is the first post in the XML / BI Publisher tutorial series and will help get the ground work done before you start using this powerful reporting tool.