Security – PeopleSoft Tutorial

Quickest way to find hidden portal objects [SQL]

You can hide PeopleSoft portal objects (e.g. content reference) from PeopleSoft Navigation. This can be done by navigating to ‘Structure and Content’ and selecting the checkbox ‘Hide from portal navigation’. Navigate to PeopleTools > Portal > Structure and Content Incase you don’t have access to this page to view the configuration, you can check this […]

Unable to select recurrence when running PeopleSoft processes

Recurrences as the name suggests are used to run PeopleSoft processes repeatedly. You could create multiple recurrence selecting different date & time to create a schedule such as daily, monthly etc. Once a recurrence is created, it can be used to schedule a process to run multiple times based on the recurrence settings. If you’re […]

How PeopleSoft Single Signon Works?

Single Signon refers to the ability of users to navigate freely within a system of multiple applications after only being authenticated once. It means that user will be asked for his/her login details only once and whenever he/she clicks on a link pointing to other application, then security information is passed from one application to […]

Quickly Find Users Who Have Access To DataMover

Datamover is a very powerful tool and access to it should always be controlled especially in PRD environments. In every organization, many users switch departments, roles and responsibilities over a period of time and every once in a while, you should review the security associated with these users to confirm that they don’t have any […]

Unable to open PeopleTools objects in Application Designer

PeopleSoft developers regularly use PeopleSoft Application Designer to view/modify PeopleTools Objects such as fields, records, pages, components etc. Developer’s login access to Application Designer is controlled by PeopleSoft Security configured in PIA. Depending on user’s role you can grant read/write access or read only access. In both the cases developer should be able to open […]

Things To Keep In Mind Before Assigning PeopleSoft Administrator Role

PeopleSoft Administrator Role is special system role that can be assigned to user profiles. Unlike other PeopleSoft roles, you can’t see the permission list (PSADMIN) associated to this role. Even if you search for this role in PeopleTools > Security > Permissions & Roles > Roles, you won’t find it. Try to open up the […]

PeopleSoft FSCM : Authorization Error While Adding Suppliers

If any of your Finance users complain about being unable to add new suppliers in PeopleSoft FSCM and they are getting authorization error then there it means there is something missing in security setup. Error received by user is “You are not authorized to enter suppliers. Contact your system administrator. (7025,9) Your operator profile indicates […]

PeopleSoft Portal Sync

When you migrate permission lists and portal registries from one database to another, Portal Security Sync process has to be run in the target environment for these permission lists and portal registries to take effect. If your company has separate roles for PeopleSoft Admin and Security Admin, you also have the option of ignoring to […]

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