Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Retro Deltas rule OK
Payments and deductions can have generation control and post processing formulas attached. These are used to restrict processing or modify calculated results according to set parameters. However, if there is a retro delta (difference) that the system has forwarded from a previous period, it will be processed without regard to post processing or gen control. You need to keep this in mind when defining retro.
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Linked In
I have had quite a few invitations to connect from people I don't know - I have decided on balance to ignore these. I hope that doesn't seem too unreasonable.
Friday, 31 December 2010
Windows Live Mesh
One of my activities over my Christmas/New Year break has been to try to syncronise data between my various computers. A quick Google led me to a free Microsoft tool for this; Windows live mesh. If like me, you have multiple computers and it's useful to find the same set of documents, music and pictures on each one, I encourage you to take a look at this. In a nod to "The Cloud", it includes 5GB online to store stuff too.
Happy New Year to All
2010 was a pretty good year for me, I hope it was for you too. Whatever 2010 brought you I wish you a Happy 2011
Friday, 19 November 2010
More on Messages
The UK P45 App Engine writes a message to the log if it thinks it can't find Tax details for a given employee. Based on what the message was telling us (set 17135,541 since you ask) I disagreed that no tax details existed, however I wanted to check the code to see how the App Engine makes the decision to issue the message. Normally I'd run a find in PeopleCode and SQL looking for the message set and number* - but this produced nothing.
Baffled, I asked on of the techy guys - he pointed out that App Engine can have a step that writes to the log - and so it proved. Unfortunately, neither I nor he knows a simple way to search for such a message as it's neither PeopleCode nor SQL at least not as the search understands it.
* Top tip - when searching PeopleCode for an error/warning message, insert a space after the message set and comma - so 17135,541 becomes 171, 541 - for reasons best known to itself PeopleCode adds the space.
Update - The client has a PeopleSoft/Oracle Service Request logged for this fault.
Baffled, I asked on of the techy guys - he pointed out that App Engine can have a step that writes to the log - and so it proved. Unfortunately, neither I nor he knows a simple way to search for such a message as it's neither PeopleCode nor SQL at least not as the search understands it.
* Top tip - when searching PeopleCode for an error/warning message, insert a space after the message set and comma - so 17135,541 becomes 171, 541 - for reasons best known to itself PeopleCode adds the space.
Update - The client has a PeopleSoft/Oracle Service Request logged for this fault.
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Big Fish, Small Pond
If you are a customer of large organisation, the relationship you have with that supplier is a function of your relative importance to them. My recent experiences dealing with two suppliers to my current project have highlighted this very clearly.
To one supplier my client is a large and valued customer. Asking them to work on their product to accomodate some of the vaguaries of a larger organisation has been met with refreshing response. They agreed to make some changes at no cost because they recognise the value of these in making the product saleable to other large organisations.
On the other hand, asking our larger supplier to incorporate a few features (and a few fixes!) from packages costing less than one hundreth of what the customer paid for this one has been met with a total lack of interest and "works as designed" response. They know that clientco is "trapped" with the package and so they have no need to bother spending anything on keeping them happy.
To one supplier my client is a large and valued customer. Asking them to work on their product to accomodate some of the vaguaries of a larger organisation has been met with refreshing response. They agreed to make some changes at no cost because they recognise the value of these in making the product saleable to other large organisations.
On the other hand, asking our larger supplier to incorporate a few features (and a few fixes!) from packages costing less than one hundreth of what the customer paid for this one has been met with a total lack of interest and "works as designed" response. They know that clientco is "trapped" with the package and so they have no need to bother spending anything on keeping them happy.
Monday, 27 September 2010
Oracle UK User Group - Global Payroll
I attended (and presented at) a very valuable day today. The UK OUG has responded to requests from users of PeopleSoft Global Payroll in the UK to set up a special interest group for GP in the UK.
The event was well attended and aside from the usual suspects (like me) there were useful presentations and participation from customers. However much I can offer, I always feel customers can get more value from speaking to each other.
Some interesting stuff from Oracle - they are revamping the Court Order pages and processing in UK GP - but probably not for a while. I had a hand in the Court order provision and to be honest, it probably is due for a revisit. It's one of those things I'd have differently if I'd known what I know now. Oracle do know - so they are re-doing it. Otherwise, Oracle didn't have a huge amount to tell us except for some overall enhancements using the latest tools technology to provide more user-configurable dashboards and similar so a user role can be defined and have all transactions, reporting and the like appear in front of the user.
The event was well attended and aside from the usual suspects (like me) there were useful presentations and participation from customers. However much I can offer, I always feel customers can get more value from speaking to each other.
Some interesting stuff from Oracle - they are revamping the Court Order pages and processing in UK GP - but probably not for a while. I had a hand in the Court order provision and to be honest, it probably is due for a revisit. It's one of those things I'd have differently if I'd known what I know now. Oracle do know - so they are re-doing it. Otherwise, Oracle didn't have a huge amount to tell us except for some overall enhancements using the latest tools technology to provide more user-configurable dashboards and similar so a user role can be defined and have all transactions, reporting and the like appear in front of the user.
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