Upgrading from one version of PeopleSoft to another one is a complex job. This post gives an overview for a practice case of an upgrade from HRMS v8.3 to HCM v8.9 for three individual hospitals, located in different area’s but with a co-working system.

A mixed team of people from both technical and functional backgrounds from Logica was appointed to fulfill this task.The RFP consisted of a number of guarantees that we were required to give to the client. It also included that the hospitals would like to complete the upgrade within a specified period of time.

Since PeopleSoft is an Internet architecture one suspects that it should support the commonly used RSS feeds that are available through internet. And guess what: it does!

Let me show you by adding the RSS feed of my favorite soccer club (http://rssfeeds.headliner.nl/rssfeeds/az/feed.xml).

Go to PeopleTools > Portal > Pagelet Wizard and add a new value. In the first step, specify a title and a meaningful description (might be the hardest part):

Imagine this; you open your recently saved project in PeopleSoft Application Designer and…all of your precious code has vanished!
Your first thought might be “Well at last something exciting is finally happening on my (in general boring) office jobs!”. And your second thought should be “What the **** happened to my precious peoplecode!?”.