Self Service at Pret – Technical Details September 7, 2011
Posted by Tipster in Look and Feel, PeopleTools, PIA, Strategy.add a comment
I posted a video yesterday showing some of the work we’d done at Pret and thought I’d add a little more technical detail and some clearer screenshots. (more…)
Self Service at Pret a Manger September 6, 2011
Posted by Tipster in Look and Feel, PeopleSoft, Strategy.1 comment so far
I’ve been a little quiet over the last year or so as I’ve been working hard helping my colleagues at Succeed implement PeopleSoft at a retail client here in the UK – Pret a Manger.
It has been a challenging project and we’ve all worked really hard. The end is in sight now though, and we’re proud of what we’ve delivered.
It has been refreshing to work with a client that isn’t afraid of customisation if it improves the user experience for their employees. And Pret really have held the engagement of their Self Service users as of paramount importance.
This short video shows some of the highlights:
Portal Greeting on Tools 8.50 May 21, 2010
Posted by Tipster in Look and Feel, PeopleTools 8.50, PIA.4 comments
I’ve posted before about using the Portal Greeting / PIA Welcome message to display something useful here. I’ve recently come to implement this on a client and discovered that the method I suggested no longer works for Tools 8.50.
Pleasingly, it’s now actually slightly easier to achieve (and will appear on all pages, not just the Home Page).
Open up App Package PT_BRANDING, the Class BrandingBase and search for the string ‘add &addjs’. Immediately preceding that line, add the following line of code:
&greeting = "User: " | %UserId | " on Database: " | %DbName;
(Plus some comments identifying the customisation etc.)
This will do the trick, but the end result looks a bit big and blocky. It’s a piece of cake to alter the greeting style to achieve a much better looking result.
Open the PSHOMEPAGE Freeform Style Sheet, locate the greeting style class and replace it with this:
.greeting {
color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;
margin: 0 0 0 70px;
line-height: 24pt;
}
The end result will look something like this (I’ve also added bold tags around the UserID and Database for clarity):
Restyling/rebranding HR9.1/Tools 8.50 January 12, 2010
Posted by Tipster in Look and Feel, PeopleTools 8.50.8 comments
I’ve spent a couple of days doing a rebranding job on one of our v9.1/Tools 8.50 environments and it’s a lot harder than it used to be pre-8.50.
Previously, if you had a rough idea of how it all fits together and knew the colour scheme that you were moving to you could do it in a day or two. Now however, I think it’ll take a bit longer. Here’s why: (more…)
