SiS Technical Training
Development Track
Day 7
Agenda
 Understand Component Interface
 Understand Excel to CI
 Practice Data Loading using ECI (Instructor Led)
Component Interface
Overview:
• Component Interface enables the synchronous access to PeopleSoft
Component from another application(PeopleCode, Java, C++).
• CI encapsulate the PeopleSoft data and business Processes and hide the
details of pages and implementation details.
• Component interface maps to one and only one PeopleSoft component.
Creation of Component Interface
• Creation of Application Engine: File-> New-> Component Interface
Creation of Component Interface
Creation of Component Interface
Attributes of Component Interface
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Name : Unique for each CI
Keys : 3 types of keys
1) Get Keys: Based on search record and mapping of search keys in search
record
2) Find Keys : Combination of search keys and alternate search keys of the
search record.
3) Create Keys : Only when there is ADD action enabled in component.
• Properties: Provide the access to the component interface settings and the
data from underlying component.
• Collections : is the special type of CI property that corresponds to a scroll. It
contains fields and subroutine as defined in underlying Component.
• Methods : function that performs a specific task on component interface at
runtime.
1) Standard Methods : “Find”, “Get”, “Save” and “Cancel” are automatically
generated when CI created. “Create” method when Component have “ADD”
action enabled.
2) User defined Methods
Component Interface Security
To give the access to user we have to add CI in permission list.
Navigation: PeopleTools> Security> Permission & Roles> Permission Lists
Component Interface Security
Give the full access to Component Interface Permission.
Programming with Component Interface
• Drag the Component Interface into application engines PeopleCode
Action.
Programming with Component Interface
Excel to CI
Overview:
• PeopleSoft Excel to CI is an Excel based utility delivered by PeopleSoft to
import data from an Excel spreadsheet into PeopleSoft records.
• Since it uses a Component Interface (CI), all validations are done on the
data being uploaded.
• Excel to CI helps to import huge amounts of rows to a maximum of 65,000
rows from an Excel sheet structure directly into a PeopleSoft component.
• Excel to CI makes sure most of the people code behind the Components
gets fired. All the records associated with the Component get updated.
Actions for Excel to CI
There are 3 actions namely – Create, Update, Update Data.
Create:
• Create action is used to a Create a New row. This is equal to the “Add”
action of a search page. This is the widely used among the actions of Excel
to CI.
Update:
• Update is used to create/append new child rows. Before inserting a new
child row it checks for the parent row keys.
UpdateData:
• UpdateData is used to update the non-key fields after checking the
existing key fields.
Lets practice Excel to CIs.