Record Properites

General:

Description: Used to enter a descriptive name. Up to 30-character only.

Record Definition: Used to enter the comments about the Recrod. Who/When has
Created/Modified.

Owner ID: Used to enter the Owner ID for the program. Owner ID is a way to identify
which objects are owned by which PeopleSoft products, such as HR, Payroll and so on. The
values in the dropdown list are Translate table values associated with the OBJECTOWNERID
field. This field is entirely optional.

Lasst Updated: Displays last modified Date and Time and the user name.

Use
1.

Set control field

When you enter a name in Prompt Table (Record field properties - edits) and tab off
the field, Set Control Field is activated.
This enables you to select a Set Control Field that overrides the Set Control Field of
the record definition specified in Prompt table.
If you don't specify a name in this field, it defaults to the Set Control Field of the table
specified in prompt table.
This field enables table Sharing feature to add an additional high-level key to identify
common sets of values.

2.

Parent Child Relationship

To maintain parent child relationship if the parent table contains one key field the
child table should contain the same key field and one additional key.
Allow multiple occurrences.

3.

Related Language Record

To Specify a related language record.

At runtime, the system checks the user's language preference and retrieves the data
value from the appropriate related language record definition.

4.

Query Security Record

Query Security Record is to secure access to a particular record using a security view.

5.

Optimization Delete Record

To Specify the user-defined audit record.

6.

Audit Record
Naming convention is AUDIT_, so that we can easily identify the audit records. But it is not
compulsory.
All the audit information will be stored in the PeopleTools Audit Table (PSAUDIT).
In addition to the record fields we should add audit-specific fields; these fields are available in
PSAUDIT table.
1.
AUDIT_OPRID: It identifies the user who did the changes.
2.

AUDIT_STAMP: It identifies the data and time when the user did the
audit action.

3.

AUDIT_ACTION: It identifies which action he did.

Possible actions include:

A: Row inserted.
D: Row deleted.
C: Row changed (updated), but no key fields changed. System writes old values to the
audit table.
K: Row changed (updated), and at least one key field changed. The system writes old
values to the audit table.
N: Row changed (updated), and at least one key field changed. The system writes new
values to the audit table.
4.
RECNAME: It identifies on which record he did.

7.

5.

FIELDNAME: It identifies on which Field he did.

6.

OLDVALUE: It stores the value before change.

7.

NEWVALUE: It stores the value after change.

Record Level Auto Update

Display Modes

Field Display:

It shows the filed attributes (fieldname, Type, Len, Format, H, Shortname, Long name)

Use Display:

It shows key related characteristics and default values for the fields (Field name, type, direction
indicates, search key, list, system indicates, audit, H, default values)

Edits Display:

It shows the auditing options available for the fields (field name, type required , edit, prompt
table, reasonable date, people code)

PeopleCode Display:

It shows the different events and the user can choose required event to write people code.