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Peoplesoft HRMS Interview Questions and Answers

What is PeopleSoft Enterprise HRMS?
PeopleSoft HRMS is an integrated suite of applications and business processes that are based on PeopleSoft’s Pure Internet Architecture (PIA) and enterprise portal technologies.

What is PeopleSoft Enterprise HRMS Integrations?
PeopleSoft HRMS integrates with other PeopleSoft applications, such as PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials, PeopleSoft Enterprise Workforce Analytics, and PeopleSoft Enterprise Learning Management. PeopleSoft HRMS also integrates with other third-party applications. PeopleSoft HRMS uses various integration technologies to send and receive data.

How PeopleSoft HRMS stores data?
PeopleSoft HRMS is a table-based system that stores critical general data, such as companies, work locations, and system specifications in a central location. The system enables users to access the same basic information while maintaining data accuracy and integrity.

What is a control table in PeopleSoft HRMS?
Control tables store information that is used to process and validate the day-to-day business activities (transactions) users perform with PeopleSoft HRMS applications

What is employment instance?
Employee relationship with organization. Where employee can have multiple relationship (instances) with the organization.

What is the difference between a Process and a Report?
The Process receives a command line parameter where as the Report receives run controls from the page.

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What are maximum number of actions possible in a step, list them
Various actions possible in Application Engine step are as follows:
Do while
Do when
Do select
PeopleCode
SQL
Call section
Log Message
Do until
One action can be called only once in a step of an Application Engine program.

What are the methods available to update worker’s compensation packages?
Seniority Pay increases
Grade Advance increases
Automated step increases
Step increases using review bands
Amount increases
Percentage increases

How Is Last Hire Date Different Than The Hire Date?
Last hire date is the date a person is hired or rehired in the organization. Hire date is the date associated with a hire action job row. For example if a person is hired on 1st May 2010 first time in the company and then terminated on 1st May 2011. Hire date and last hire date both will be 1st May 2010. Let’s say now the person is rehired on 5th May 2011 then the hire date will still remain as 1st May 2010 but the last hire date will now be 5th May 2011.

What Is The Difference Between Transaction Table And Setup Tables?
Table Data which is going to change on daily is transaction table , Table data (Organization Address , Phone No , Locations) which is going to change as part of the organization approval is called setup tables.

Briefly Explain The Concept Of Effective Date And Its Advantages.
Effective date concept is used in multiple core tables in PS HRMS. For example in job this is a primary key. Purpose of this field is to differentiate multiple transaction rows for same employee that has happened on two different dates. Effective date is also used in a lot of setup tables for example location. A location is say active as of today but 5 days later if I wish to make it inactive how does the system recognize the current status of location 5 days in future. It will be done by using the most effective dated row for that location.

What is Person or Position Structure in PeopleSoft HRMS?
PeopleSoft HRMS enables you to structure or drive your PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Resources system by person or by position. Before you set up information in the control tables, you must decide which method to use. The system processes the information differently depending on your choice.

What’s the Difference between Person or Position?
When you drive PeopleSoft Human Resources by person, you use job codes to classify job data into groups. You use those codes to link person data to job data.

What are Business Units in PeopleSoft HRMS?
Business units are logical units that you create to track and report specific business information. Business units have no predetermined restrictions or requirements; they are a flexible structuring device that enable you to implement PeopleSoft HRMS based on how your business is organized.

What are Business Units in PeopleSoft HRMS?
Business units are logical units that you create to track and report specific business information. Business units have no predetermined restrictions or requirements; they are a flexible structuring device that enable you to implement PeopleSoft HRMS based on how your business is organized.

Security access types are ways of securing the data within a security set. Each security set has a number of security access types that you can choose to enable. Among other things, security access types determine:
The security transaction data.
If there is data security for future-dated rows.
If the access type uses a department security tree.

How do you allow Workers to Update Their Own Data?
PeopleSoft HRMS doesn’t allow users to update their own data except in the self-service internet applications.
However, sometimes you might want them to update some of their own data in other components. To allow users to update their own data, you implement the PeopleCode function Allow EmplIDChg (allow emplID change).
The function looks for a single Boolean parameter. When the parameter is set to true, workers can update their own data; when it is set to false, they cannot.

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How do you setup Search/Match?
To set up Search/Match use the Search Match Rules (HCR_SM_RULE), Search/Match Parameters (HCR_SM_PARM), Search/Match Result Fields (HCR_SM_RSLT_FLDS), Search/Match Results (HCR_SM_RESULT), and Search/Match (HCR_SM_SEARCH) components.

Differentiate Field edit and Save edit?
In Field edit for each field change, a transition to the application server to the database is taken place.In Saveedit for all the fields , only one transition to the application server to the Database is taken place.

How is the searchinit event most often used by people soft application?
Searchinit fires before the search dialogue page is displayed to the end user. For this reason searchinit is often used to enhance roll level security by inserting and graying out certain values to the search dialogue page.

What are the built-functions used to control translate values dynamically?
Adddropdownitem()
Deletedropdownitem()

January 25, 2020
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