Watch out: your colleague is ‘stealing’ your code!

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!?”.

The answer in many cases is easy…but shocking: your colleague stole your code! Although he might not be aware of it, but (s)he did it nevertheless.

What’s the case? If you are co-working with colleagues on the same object in Application Designer (of course not at the same time) than it is possible that the code you’ve saved will be overwritten with the code of you’re colleague when he or she opens it to work on it!

First time around you might get stressed and pissed off and keep wondering what could have happened. And be thankful that you regularly exported your code/project in fear of cases like this. You did export your code, didn’t you!?

Preventing situations like this is actually fairly easy: just empty your local cache via the Configuration Manager fully or partially! In cases your co-working regulary on same objects it’s recommended to do this on regular basis.

If you’ve got other solutions or other best practices, let us know in the comments …

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Posted by: S Aytemir (4 post(s)).

Sener Aytemir is a technical PeopleSoft (HR) consultant and has been working for Logica for the past 10 years. Currently he's busy co-writing an e-book 'PeopleSoft for Dummies', which should be available for download here at BAOA.