CHAPTER 5 Understanding and Creating iScripts

By now, you should be familiar with page and component development. Using App Designer, you can design a data bound page in true “what you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG) fashion, and then view that page at runtime through PeopleSoft’s Pure Internet Architecture (PIA). The PIA is responsible for every aspect of a component’s life cycle. It converts a design-time display into HTML and JavaScript, responds to user-initiated events, marshals data between the database and the display, and manages relationships between header and detail rows.

iScripts offer an alternative to pages and components. They are similar to those items, in that you access them from a web browser, but that is where the similarities ...

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