If you’ve been browsing my blog directly, you may have already noticed the PeopleSoft Search link on the site’s header. This is simply a Google Custom search engine pointing to sites containing relevant PeopleSoft technical content. This includes mostly forums and blogs.
I find this useful when I need to search for keywords that are not specifically related to PeopleSoft. Following is an example result when searching for “excel”:
I still have trouble filtering out RSS from the results, if anyone can help me with that.
Now, if you’re browsing my site using Firefox 2, you may also notice the following auto-discovered PeopleSoft Search item on your search bar:
Following is how the auto-discovered search would like it IE7:
This plugin is packaged using the OpenSearch standard, as described in this Mozilla article.
The plugin can also be installed by clicking the following link:
This is great stuff. I’ve been doing similar stuff with OpenSearch plugins. Have you seen the Oracle AppsLab plugin for searching MetaLink? Find it here: http://oracleappslab.com/2007/07/10/metalink-and-more-in-your-browser-search-bar/
Jake
Hi Jake,
Lots of useful tips there. Thanks!
Article surely containing lot of useful tips. I am in ERP industry from last 8 years and found lot of new technologies and enhancements. Now a days latest is Oracle fusion and SAP modules. One more point, I felt from Customer view, is about vendor selection. I read lot of articles on internet and got lot about different parameters that company uses.
As Blogs industry is growing, I really that being integrated with ERP softwares and that will make all users interactive, while using application. In case you are interested to see major differences between Oracle or SAP then read the article on http://www.itwisesolutions.com/blogs website. I am not sure who is maintaining this site but looks like more PeopleSoft training covered on it.