Enterprises are moving more of their storage to the Cloud. PeopleSoft as an ERP product enables customers to store their documents in the cloud storage repository. Cloud support for File Attachments enables the use of cloud storage as a source of files uploaded to PeopleSoft’s storage location.

PeopleSoft allows documents to be stored in supported repositories using PeopleSoft File Attachment built-in API functions AddAttachment, ViewAttachment, DetachAttachment, and DeleteAttachment. It supports repositories based on database tables (PeopleSoft records), FTP sites (FTP(S) & SFTP), HTTP repositories (HTTP(S)).

As far as cloud storage is concerned, currently, PeopleSoft supports Oracle Content and Experience Cloud (OCE) and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage is planned for a future release.

  • Oracle Content and Experience Cloud (OCE) formerly known as ODCS, is an Oracle PaaS service. 
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage is an Oracle IaaS service.

Cloud-based Object Storage – Today’s enterprises choose object storage strategies in order to manage their high volumes of unstructured data effectively in the cloud. Object storage, often referred to as object-based storage, is a data storage architecture that employs the public cloud, and gives service providers a cost-effective, and highly scalable environment to handle large amounts of unstructured data.

Major Benefits of Using Object Storage:-

  • Scalability
  • Faster Data Retrieval
  • Fewer Limitations
  • Cost-effectiveness

Like other repositories, PeopleSoft Administrators can configure URLID which points to Cloud Repositories and can manage the repositories using File Attachment APIs. Users can attach files stored in local devices and can select files from their personal cloud storage (configured using cloud providers). Cloud providers are not pre-configured and not delivered out of the box from PeopleTools. Customers need to register their application with the intended cloud providers. PeopleSoft Admins can configure cloud storage as a cloud provider by adding JavaScript library-specific code.

Cloud support for File Attachments is working as other repositories as there is no change to the existing behavior of PeopleCode APIs and its signature.

How to Configure and Access Cloud Repositories with PeopleSoft File Attachments

Defining URL ID – File Attachment APIs get information about the repository through URLID. A URL ID pointing to the required repository needs to be configured before the File Attachment process. URLID can be managed by the URL Maintenance page (PeopleTools > Utilities > Administration > URLs). PeopleSoft Admins must create URL IDs that point to cloud storage OCE or (in the future) OCI object Storage.

 

URL Properties for ODCS Instance

Users can perform the upload Test your configuration in Test Utilities Page.

Configure cloud storage as a cloud provider.

 

Users can select the file from the configured cloud storage cloud provider in the file attachment page.

PeopleSoft provides a feature to manage cloud repositories as a Report Repositories to distribute the process generated reports. Like the URL ID configuration, the Admin user can configure the Report Node with the proper endpoint as the hostname and with its configuration properties.

Cloud storage is one of several options, but it is emerging as a favorite.