PeopleSoft Query Reporting Tools Ed 1 — Lesson 2: Criteria, Joins, Expressions, Prompts, Effective Dates, and Runtime Inputs

Learning Objectives

• Explain the architecture, workflow, or business purpose behind selection criteria, operators, constants, lists, ranges, and null handling.
• Apply standard, outer, self, and related-record joins and expressions, functions, translate values, dates, strings, and calculations in a controlled scenario.
• Validate outcomes and troubleshoot risks involving prompts, defaults, effective-date options, and runtime usability.

Detailed Topics

• selection criteria, operators, constants, lists, ranges, and null handling
• standard, outer, self, and related-record joins
• expressions, functions, translate values, dates, strings, and calculations
• prompts, defaults, effective-date options, and runtime usability

Instructor Demonstration

Demonstrate selection criteria, operators, constants, lists, ranges, and null handling within a workforce reporting catalog rebuilt to provide reconciled, reusable, and securely distributed operational reports, then capture the exact configuration, command, transaction, report, model, query, code, or process evidence that proves the result for lesson 2.

Hands-On Exercise

Implement a controlled exercise covering standard, outer, self, and related-record joins and expressions, functions, translate values, dates, strings, and calculations, then introduce and resolve an exception involving prompts, defaults, effective-date options, and runtime usability while preserving before-and-after evidence.

1. Confirm the environment, identities, inputs, dependencies, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Complete the course-specific configuration, development, analysis, or process workflow.
3. Capture settings, commands, data, outputs, logs, reports, screenshots, calculations, or test results.
4. Compare the observed result with acceptance criteria and document corrective action.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify the technical or business decision that must be made.
• Compare valid approaches and their security, performance, reliability, cost, compliance, and support trade-offs.
• Define rollback, recovery, ownership, communication, and evidence requirements.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Diagnose issues across selection criteria, operators, constants, lists, ranges, and null handling, standard, outer, self, and related-record joins, expressions, functions, translate values, dates, strings, and calculations, prompts, defaults, effective-date options, and runtime usability without making an unverified production change. Separate symptoms from causes, gather evidence, test the smallest reversible correction, rerun validation, and record preventive action.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement, scope, inputs, dependencies, and expected result are documented.
• The result is reproducible and supported by course-specific evidence.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, performance, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• Exceptions, rollback, ownership, and the next improvement priority are recorded.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Criteria, Joins, Expressions, Prompts, Effective Dates, and Runtime Inputs in a realistic PeopleSoft Query Reporting Tools Ed 1 scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.