It’s mainly intended for testing purposes though where you need to switch users a lot (workflow, etc.). You can actually generate multiple bookmarklets as long as they have different names (e.g. “Enter Voucher – APA1″, “Approve Voucher – APM1″)

I definitely wouldn’t recommend using this for production at all. It is the technical equivalent of using a post-it note to put your password on your monitor, which gets you fired in most organizations.

I haven’t given it a full test, but it seems as though you can replace the URL with ‘location.href’ which will take the current URL. That way, if your company has a standard links page with URLs for all the environments, you can just choose your link and then select the Bookmarklet to login (assuming your login and password is the same across multiple environments).

Being able to pass userid and pwd on the URL query was removed because it is a potential security hole (query strings go into proxy server logs, web server access logs, etc.). I forget when that got removed, but it won’t be in any recent PeopleTools 8.1x or 8.4x releases.

You can still pass userid and pwd as a custom headers on a request (which is how ExcelToCI works), but you can’t generate custom headers directly from within a browser.

The disconnect is for single shot requests where you don’t want the established session to keep living on the server. If you don’t pass this, then eventually the session will timeout, but passing the disconnect=y is a bit friendlier for the server.

Take a look at what Brent Martin over at ERP Associates has written up as well.

http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-weblog/utilities/bookmarklets-and-peoplesoft.html

We have something similar that we use for testing.

http://blog.greysparling.com/pslogin_bookmarklets.html

It needs a good writeup on our weblog though.