My hope is that SOMEDAY Oracle / PeopleSoft will allow for the INACTIVATION of GLBU’s, but that’s been a feature request for what seems like ever.  Don’t hold your breath.

Note: replace US001 with your business unit(s).  Also, this is valid as of PeopleSoft Financials v9.1, Tools 8.52.

DELETE FROM PS_BUS_UNIT_TBL_GL WHERE BUSINESS_UNIT = ‘US001′;
DELETE FROM PS_BUS_UNIT_TBL_FS WHERE BUSINESS_UNIT = ‘US001′;
DELETE FROM PS_SETID_TBL WHERE SETID = ‘US001′;
DELETE FROM PS_SET_CNTRL_TBL WHERE SETCNTRLVALUE = ‘US001′;
DELETE FROM PS_SET_CNTRL_GROUP WHERE SETCNTRLVALUE = ‘US001′;
DELETE FROM PS_SET_CNTRL_REC WHERE SETCNTRLVALUE = ‘US001′;
DELETE FROM PS_SET_CNTRL_TREE WHERE SETCNTRLVALUE = ‘US001′;
DELETE FROM PS_BU_JE_ID_CFS WHERE BUSINESS_UNIT = ‘US001′;
DELETE FROM PS_BU_JE_IC_CFS WHERE BUSINESS_UNIT = ‘US001′;
DELETE FROM PS_BU_JE_BS_CFS WHERE BUSINESS_UNIT = ‘US001′;
DELETE FROM PS_BU_JE_ES_CFS WHERE BUSINESS_UNIT = ‘US001′;
DELETE FROM PS_BU_JE_AS_CFS WHERE BUSINESS_UNIT = ‘US001′;
DELETE FROM PS_BUL_JE_RA_CFS WHERE BUSINESS_UNIT = ‘US001′;
DELETE FROM PS_BUS_UNIT_IDS_GL WHERE BUSINESS_UNIT = ‘US001′;
DELETE FROM PS_ADB_INCR_CONTRL WHERE BUSINESS_UNIT = ‘US001′;
DELETE FROM PS_BU_LGRP_ADB_ACT WHERE BUSINESS_UNIT = ‘US001′;
DELETE FROM PS_BU_LED_TBL WHERE BUSINESS_UNIT = ‘US001′;
DELETE FROM PS_BU_LED_GRP_TBL WHERE BUSINESS_UNIT = ‘US001′;
DELETE FROM PS_BU_LED_COMB_TBL WHERE BUSINESS_UNIT = ‘US001′;
DELETE FROM PS_BUL_CNTL_BUD WHERE BUSINESS_UNIT = ‘US001′;

I have a question. Hope you can help

Need help to sort using XLATLONGNAME. Currently we have a search record that returns results in a grid (on the search page) Results are displayed in 4 columns. One of the columns has a translate value. So the sort is based on the translate value. We want it to be by the XLATLONGNAME. Is that possible.

Example (say we have the following)

Translate Value – Long Name
A – Backlog
B – Available
C – Contract
D – Entitled
E – Dispatch

We do NOT want to change the translate value order. But want to use the XLATLONGNAME for the search sort.

Currently when the results are displayed, the sort is by Translate value. Say if the field 2 is the one with the above translate value, then the results show up as

Field 1 :: Field 2
Backlog :: XXXXX
Available:: XXXXX
Contract:: XXXXX
Entitled :: XXXXX
Dispatch:: XXXXX
…this is cause its sorted by Translate value.

Need this to be as follows ..
Field1 :: Field 2
Available:: XXXXX
Backlog :: XXXXX
Contract:: XXXXX
Dispatch:: XXXXX
Entitled :: XXXXX

The above set is what is required – This is by XLATLONGNAME.

Thank you,
Jessica

Jessica,

You’ll likely have to create a new search record. It should be a view of the current search record joined to the XLAT item. You can then select the long name and sort on it that way.

-Tyson

The first query is only valid if you’ve disallowed users from On-Demand Posting journals (the “Journal Post” option in the drop-down box on the JE Lines screen). If you disable this process, users have to utilize the batch journal post process. Here is the SQL:

SELECT A.OPRID, B.BUSINESS_UNIT, B.JOURNAL_ID, B.JOURNAL_DATE, B.DESCR
	FROM PS_JRNL_POST_REQ A, PS_JRNL_HEADER B
	WHERE A.OPRID = B.OPRID
		AND B.BUSINESS_UNIT = A.BUSINESS_UNIT;

The second query is valid if you haven’t restricted On-Demand Posting of journal entries. It’s a bit tricky, so stay with me:

SELECT A.BUSINESS_UNIT, A.JOURNAL_ID, A.JOURNAL_DATE, A.DESCR, A.OPRID,
	A.POSTED_DATE, A.PROCESS_INSTANCE, B.JOBID, B.PROGRAM_NAME,
	C.MESSAGE_PARM
  FROM PS_JRNL_HEADER A, PS_MESSAGE_LOG B, PS_MESSAGE_LOGPARM C
  WHERE B.PROCESS_INSTANCE = A.PROCESS_INSTANCE
    AND B.PROCESS_INSTANCE = C.PROCESS_INSTANCE
    AND B.MESSAGE_SEQ = C.MESSAGE_SEQ
    AND C.MESSAGE_SEQ = 2
    AND C.PARM_SEQ = 2
    AND A.OPRID = C.MESSAGE_PARM
    AND B.PROGRAM_NAME LIKE 'GLPP%'
  ORDER BY A.BUSINESS_UNIT, A.JOURNAL_ID, A.JOURNAL_DATE;

I’ve heard that PeopleSoft 9.1 provides this ability as delivered, but haven’t seen it yet. I’ll update this post once I verify the feature is available. Happy querying!

Clients should not notice any downtime during this process. If your site must be migrated using a non-standard upgrade path, you will be notified accordingly.

I need to export (using SQL) a PeopleSoft tree – showing all Tree Nodes and Leafs from the Top of the tree all the way down. levels are not used on the tree I am trying to retrieve. Can someone please help – it would be much appreciated!

Here is the SQL I use to get the Parent Node, Node, Detail Value (Leaf), and Level from trees in PeopleSoft via SQL:

Note: Click View Plain in the codeblock below to see all the SQL correctly. I’m working on my current WP theme to get it to quit interfering with my syntax highlighter.

SELECT PSTREENODE.SETID,
  PSTREENODE.TREE_NAME,
  PSTREENODE.EFFDT,
  PARENT_NODE_NAME AS PARENTNODE,
  TREE_NODE        AS NODENAME,
  TREE_NODE        AS TREENODE,
  TREE_LEVEL_NUM,
  TREE_NODE_NUM
FROM PSTREENODE
  --- REPLACE WITH YOUR SETID
WHERE PSTREENODE.SETID = 'SHARE'
  --- REPLACE WITH YOUR TREE NAME
AND TREE_NAME = 'ACCOUNT'
  --- REPLACE WITH YOUR TREE EFFECTIVE DATE
AND EFFDT = TO_DATE('01011900','MMDDYYYY')
UNION ALL
--- REPLACE WITH YOUR SETID
SELECT 'SHARE',
  N.TREE_NAME,
  --- REPLACE WITH YOUR TREE EFFECTIVE DATE
  TO_DATE('01011900','MMDDYYYY'),
  N.TREE_NODE AS PARENTNODE,
  A.DESCR     AS NODENAME,
  --- REPLACE A.ACCOUNT WITH A.your_chartfield
  A.ACCOUNT AS TREENODE,
  TREE_LEVEL_NUM,
  N.TREE_NODE_NUM
FROM PSTREENODE N
INNER JOIN PSTREELEAF L
ON N.SETID      = L.SETID
AND N.TREE_NAME = L.TREE_NAME
  --- REPLACE WITH YOUR SETID
AND N.SETID = 'SHARE'
  --- REPLACE WITH YOUR TREE NAME
AND N.TREE_NAME = 'ACCOUNT'
  --- REPLACE WITH YOUR TREE EFFECTIVE DATE
AND N.EFFDT         = TO_DATE('01011900','MMDDYYYY')
AND N.EFFDT         = L.EFFDT
AND N.TREE_NODE_NUM = L.TREE_NODE_NUM
  --- REPLACE TABLE WITH LOOKUP TABLE FOR YOUR chartfield
INNER JOIN PS_GL_ACCOUNT_TBL A
  --- REPLACE A.ACCOUNT WITH A.your_chartfield
ON A.ACCOUNT >= L.RANGE_FROM
  --- REPLACE A.ACCOUNT WITH A.your_chartfield
AND A.ACCOUNT <= L.RANGE_TO
  --- REPLACE WITH YOUR SETID
AND L.SETID = 'SHARE'
ORDER BY TREE_NODE_NUM,
  TREE_LEVEL_NUM,
  TREENODE;

Remember to read the comments on each line to see where and what you need to replace in the query, depending on the tree you are querying and the ChartField stored on the tree.

We need to accelerate depreciation on the tax books for thousands of assets in prior years, and retain the cost, and future depreciation.

So for example, we need to take 50% of the asset depreciation in the year it was put in service, i.e. 2007. The asset would depreciation the remaining value through it’s life.

The partial retirement process gets me the results except it retires the asset, and adjusts the cost.

The adjust accumulated depreciation screen seems to get what we need, however, it is creating additional DPR and/or PDP entries (depending on trans_dt) used. these are small amounts but I can’t figure out where it is getting the number. If I knew how it was getting the nubmer I could adjust my plug to get the answers we need.

This is only for tax books. It is related to new repair regulations where a statistical method was applied by auditors, and we need to sync PeopleSoft to match the new values.

Thanks for any advice or detailed explanation on how the adjust accum depreciation screen works.

Our company is in the process of implementing Expenses 9.0 (we do not have PSoft HR, but do have AP and GL). We have a requirement to allow users to be paid either via check or direct deposit (EFT). I have no problems getting the check portion to work. However, it seems no matter what configuration changes or user changes that I make payment is always being staged as System Check. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what configuration area I should be looking at?

I am assuming you have your employees set up as vendors in the system. If this is the case, you should be able to modify their vendor record to point to Electronic Funds Transfer rather than Check.

Go to Vendors > Vendor Information > Add/Update > Vendor. Find the employee and click on the Location tab. Click the Payables hyperlink. Expand the Additional Payables Options section. In the Additional Payment Information section, select Specify and then Electronic Funds Transfer.

1) Change the Font. Developers like to indent and line up their code to make it more readable. Why deliver the product with a default font that isn’t fixed width, therefore making this harder? The first change I make is to swap the font (Tools > Preferences > Code Editor > Fonts) for Lucida Console, 11pts – although the font size may vary depending upon monitor resolution and the state of your eyesight.

…

3) Syntax Colours. Picking a better colour scheme eases readability as you’ll be able to pick out strings, operators and brackets/braces quicker but the delivered scheme highlights keywords in bold, which throws out the alignment if you’ve pick a fixed-width font. I normally make the following changes (Tools > Preferences > Code Editor > Syntax Colours):

• Remove the bold highlight from ‘Default Element Name’ and ‘Default Keyword’.
• Change Default Separator to purple
• Change Default String to red
• Uncheck ‘Enable highlight’ against Current SQL

I also use several of the Toolbar Shortcuts he mentions, such as F9 to execute SQL queries.

Thanks for the great article, Duncan!

Our current Version: PS8.9; People Tools: 8.47How can we select the translate values from PSXLATITEM table by joining to another table?I want the description(XLATLONGNAME) in the field value rather th
How can I get the translate values description selected in the query?
Record used :
PSXLATITEM.
HRS_JO_RQMT_I
fiels selected:
SCHEDULED_TYPE
SHIFT
Translate values of Schduled_type:
P
F
O
Long names:
par time
Full time
Optional
I want the descriptions (long names) of the tanslate values should be displayed in the output rather than
F, P, O
Any suggestions ?/ Thanks.

If you are doing this via the online Query tool, you can change the Field settings (on the Field tab) to display the Long description rather than the ID for the fields you are selecting.

If you are just writing SQL, I would suggest using XLATTABLE_VW instead of PSXLATITEM to obtain the long description of the field(s) you are selecting. In my queries, I typically join to that view with the following criteria:

SELECT D.XLATLONGNAME AS SCHEDULE_TYPE
FROM PS_HRS_JO_RQMT_I A, XLATTABLE_VW B
WHERE B.FIELDNAME = 'SCHEDULED_TYPE'
AND A.SCHEDULED_TYPE = B.FIELDVALUE AND B.EFFDT
(SELECT MAX(B_ED.EFFDT) FROM XLATTABLE_VW B_ED
WHERE B.FIELDNAME = B_ED.FIELDNAME
AND B.FIELDVALUE = B_ED.FIELDVALUE
AND B_ED.EFFDT <= SYSDATE);

The PeopleSoft delivered method of loading location amounts uses the CONUS/OCONUS files. Where do you get the files? The GSA website only provides an excel format for domestic rates. For alaska and hawaii, there is a link on the GSA’s website to the department of defense for a file that is in a different format than the domestic rates provided by the GSA. For foreign rates, there is yet another link from the GSA’s website to The Office of Allowances’ foreign per diem rates.

I noticed that if I just download everything through the department of defense, the rate for the domestic locations are not the same as what is provided for through the GSA’s website.
Furthermore, how do you handle the changing formats for rate information through the various sources for that information?

The per diem information seems to exist in very dynamic formats, and it makes coding for importing the information very difficult.

You should be able to save the Excel files that are produced from the GSA website (CONUS and OCONUS) using the file formats (columns) as depicted on the following website:

http://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/pdc-archive/PD-RATES/Ascii-Delimited/fstruct.html

Save the Excel file as a semi-colon delimited text file.  To do this, you’ll need to change your current default delimiter by following these steps (assuming you’re using Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Excel):

1. In Microsoft Windows, click the Start button, and then click Control Panel.
2. Open the Regional and Language Options dialog box.
3. Do one of the following:
* In Windows Vista, click the Formats tab, and then click Customize this format.
* In Windows XP, click the Regional Options tab, and then click Customize.
4. Type a new separator in the List separator box.
5. Click OK twice.

Then you just need to get the files with the correct column order and save it as a CSV.  Change the file extension to TXT and you’ll be all set.