PeopleSoft Environment Variable

PeopleSoft utility to get environment variables defined within a PeopleSoft server.

How to Install

Step 1: Import the custom menu and folder

1. Launch Application Designer
2. click Tools, Copy Project, From File...
3. click Select, choose MXM_CUSTOM_INIT
4. click Copy

Step 2: Import the project

1. Launch Application Designer
2. Click Tools, Copy Project, From File...
3. Click Select, choose MXM_GETENV
4. Click Copy

Step 3. Build Project

Note: Perform this step if the project contains SQL Tables otherwise skip it

1. Click Build, Project...
2. Check the following options:
   a. Create Table
   b. Create Indexes
   c. Create Views
   d. Execute and build script.
3. Click Build

Step 4. Register the component

1. Open the component
2. Click Tools, Register Component...
3. Check off the following:
   • Add this component to a menu
   • Add this component to a portal registry
   • Add this component to a permission list
4. Click Next
5. Select Menu Name: MXM_CUSTOM_MENU and Bar Name: USE
6. Click Next
7. Select Folder Name: MXM_CUSTOM
8. Change Content Reference Label and Long Description fields to "Environment Variables"
9. Check off Always use default local node
10. Click Next
11. Select Permission List Name: PTPT1200
12. Click Next
13. Check off Registry entry under Add to project
14. Click Finish

Technical Documentation

App Designer Project: MXM_GETENV

Records

Record: MXM_GETENV Type: Derived/Work

Field	Type	Length	Long Descr	Short Descr
INPUTNAME	Char	30	Input Name	Input Name
SEARCH	Char	1	Search Criteria	Criteria
DESCRLONG	Long	0	Description	Descr

PeopleCode

Event: MXM_GETENV.SEARCH.FieldChange

MXM_GETENV.DESCRLONG.Value = "";
Local string &env = MXM_GETENV.INPUTNAME.Value;
Local string &envvalue = GetEnv(&env);
MXM_GETENV.DESCRLONG.Value = &envvalue;

Event: MXM_GETENV.PageActivate

MXM_GETENV.INPUTNAME.HtmlAttributes = "placeholder=""Environment Variable""";

Pages

Page:MXM_GETENV
Title: List Files
MXM_GETENV.INPUTNAME
MXM_GETENV.SEARCH
MXM_GETENV.DESCRLONG

Component

Component	MXM_GETENV
Page	MXM_GETENV
Navigation	Custom Components > Environment Variables
Item Label	Environment Variables
Search Record	INSTALLATION
Add	Selected
Update Display	Selected
Disable Saving Page	Selected
Menu	MXM_CUSTOM_MENU
Bar item Name	MENUITEM
Portal	Employee
Folder Name	MXM_CUSTOM
Content Reference label	Environment Variables
Long Description	Environment Variables
Sequence Number	0
Always Use Local Node	Selected
Permission Lists	PTPT1200
Actions	Add, Update/Display

Notes

Common environment variables

• PS_FILEDIR
• PS_SERVDIR
• PS_HOME
• PS_APP_HOME
• PS_CUST_HOME
• PS_CFG_HOME
• CLASSPATH
• PATH

Feedback:

Please create a GitHub Issue for any bugs, feature requests, etc. Happy to accept pull requests too!