Here's a quick little post on some cool stuff that we've been working on recently.
When you're accessing PeopleSoft via the web browser, it's pretty easy to see which environment that you are connected to - it's in the URL. But if you are using the client/server tools like PS/Query or Application Designer and have multiple sessions going, it can be hard to quickly tell them apart.
It would be nice if you could see what environment that you are connected to along with the current user ID directly in the title bar. Then you could see in the task bar (or in the window list when alt-tabbing) which session is which.
Which is exactly what we've done. If you take a close look at that title bar (click on the image for full size), you'll see that we have automatically prepended the current database name (HCM89) and the current user ID (PS) to the title bar.
Here's another picture of it in action when pressing Alt-Tab to cycle through the open windows. All of the Application Designer sessions now have good descriptive text in the title to be able to distinguish between environments.
This was done as part of our Version Control for PeopleSoft product. In addition to the current database and user ID, we also show which version control repository you are working with. If you look at the titles in the screenshots above you'll notice that some sessions are using a version control repository called "localdemo" (which is really just for experimenting/demoing) and some are using a version control repository called "gsdev", which is our production version control repository for Grey Sparling development. Definitely don't want to get those mixed up!
If you have an active ticket in the change request system that you are working on, we'll display that as well. In the screenshot below, I've selected ticket number 6 from the list of open tickets that are currently assigned to me and the title bar reflects that.
It's a not a huge feature, but it comes in very handy when you have multiple sessions going.
Update: here's what it looks with Windows XP "icon group combining".
Labels: 2009, ApplicationDesigner, Products, VersionControl
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(fwiw, I am running PTv8.49.06)
Cheers!