Banned!
(edit : an ITToolbox product manager contacted me about figuring out what happened - see the comments in this post)
(edit 2 : it looks like posts are going through again)
(edit 3 : once again, they're dropping my posts. I give up.)
It appears as though I've been banned from the ITToolbox PeopleTools forums.
I've responded to various interesting posts on their forums in the past and had them posted without problem. But a couple of responses to some posts at the end of October seem to have gotten me in trouble.
One was for this post where someone was asking about how to use the USER_PROFILE_CI component interface. Here's how I responded.
A few days later I answered another question. This time related to testing subscription PeopleCode in Integration Broker. Here's how I responded.
It reminded me of a scene in the movie Back to School. Rodney Dangerfield has hired Kurt Vonnegut to ghostwrite a report for him on a (wait for it) Kurt Vonnegut novel for his college class. The professor gives Rodney an F and says "Whoever *did* write this doesn't know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut!".
I didn't actually write any code for SendMaster, but I sure remember lots of meetings with various PeopleSoft application development teams where they complained a lot about the difficulty of testing their integrations because of the challenges in coordinating multiple environments. This is exactly what led to us developing the SendMaster utility. Sure sounds like the original poster's issue to me :-)
So I sent off an email awhile ago to the moderator explaining this (leaving out the Back to School part of course :-), but haven't heard anything back. I've attempted to answer a few other posts, but the responses don't get posted nor do I get any message back from the moderator explaining why.
Which is too bad because amongst the large number of questions that really just deserve an "RTFM" answer, there are some good questions. One recent one was about how to setup different security based on where the person logged in from. I helped a customer doing that for a rollout of eBenefits awhile ago. I'll write up a blog entry on that (one of these days :-), but who knows whether the original poster will ever find it.
(edit 2 : it looks like posts are going through again)
(edit 3 : once again, they're dropping my posts. I give up.)
It appears as though I've been banned from the ITToolbox PeopleTools forums.
I've responded to various interesting posts on their forums in the past and had them posted without problem. But a couple of responses to some posts at the end of October seem to have gotten me in trouble.
One was for this post where someone was asking about how to use the USER_PROFILE_CI component interface. Here's how I responded.
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 09:01 +0000, ERP_Nerd via peopletools-l wrote:I received a message from the moderator saying my message was not published because I introduced a new question in an existing thread. Fair enough - the part about upgrading to a newer version of PeopleTools was general advice and not related to the original question. I even acknowledged as much when writing that. But I did at least answer his question.
> I am trying to upload user profiles in Peopletools 8.42...
Not related to your question, but I'd really try to get on a later
PeopleTools version.
> I am not able to understand what I have to pass in :
>
> &oAttributes.Fieldname
> &oAttributes.Recname
> &oAttributes.AttributeValue
> &oAttributes.AttributeName
>
The code that gets generated loops through every single that can
possible be accessed, not just what is the minimum required. So you can safely delete the generated code that references the IDTypes collection if you are not using that.
--
Chris Heller
Grey Sparling Solutions, Inc.
http://www.greysparling.com/
http://blog.greysparling.com/
A few days later I answered another question. This time related to testing subscription PeopleCode in Integration Broker. Here's how I responded.
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 03:42 +0000, bvsdata via peopletools-l wrote:I was a bit surprised to receive another "You can't introduce new questions to an existing topic" message from the moderator. Especially since I was the manager person responsible for Integration Broker product strategy reported to me at the time that SendMaster was created :-)
> I am writing one application message program to subscribe the data from peoplesoft SCM system to Peoplesoft CRM. I would like to test the subscription code is working properly or not.
> I didn't get the connection to write a publishing code in SCM. But i need to check whether my subscription code is firing or not.
>
>
> Please suggest me how to check my subsciption code is firing or not. I checked it in message monitor. But it is not there.
>
> Please help me if anybody knows.
>
There is a delivered tool as part of Integration Broker called SendMaster. You can use that for testing sending messages, which will help you see how your subscription PeopleCode is behaving.
--
Chris Heller
Grey Sparling Solutions, Inc.
http://www.greysparling.com/
http://blog.greysparling.com/
It reminded me of a scene in the movie Back to School. Rodney Dangerfield has hired Kurt Vonnegut to ghostwrite a report for him on a (wait for it) Kurt Vonnegut novel for his college class. The professor gives Rodney an F and says "Whoever *did* write this doesn't know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut!".
I didn't actually write any code for SendMaster, but I sure remember lots of meetings with various PeopleSoft application development teams where they complained a lot about the difficulty of testing their integrations because of the challenges in coordinating multiple environments. This is exactly what led to us developing the SendMaster utility. Sure sounds like the original poster's issue to me :-)
So I sent off an email awhile ago to the moderator explaining this (leaving out the Back to School part of course :-), but haven't heard anything back. I've attempted to answer a few other posts, but the responses don't get posted nor do I get any message back from the moderator explaining why.
Which is too bad because amongst the large number of questions that really just deserve an "RTFM" answer, there are some good questions. One recent one was about how to setup different security based on where the person logged in from. I helped a customer doing that for a rollout of eBenefits awhile ago. I'll write up a blog entry on that (one of these days :-), but who knows whether the original poster will ever find it.