Kyle Benson

This is a post from my old kbenson.net site.  In my blogger stats I have seen some traffic being redirected from this old post. I pulled the page back from Google cache, so it is mostly the same. However the screenshots are missing; I will attempt to recreate them soon.  so I had to recreate them. I had a head banger on a simple issue today.  It took a few hours to realize what the issue was, turned out to be way too obvious.  In  PeopleSoft  process scheduler we have setup some  Process Definitions  with a  File Dependency  turned on.  What this does is  Block  a process from running until a file is found.  This is setup in the  Process Definitio n on the  Process Definition Options  tab under the  On File Creation  section. Well today we updated the  Wait for File  path.  We rescheduled our processes but in the  Parameters  it still had the old file path.  After some head scratching I looked in  PeopleBooks  where it says this file path can be set at runtime.   So I l

Today I returned to the office after being at Oracle OpenWorld all last week.  After I caught up on emails, a co-worker came to me with an issue the Training team was seeing in our Training environment.  This environment gets refreshed every weekend, so there a normally very few issues. However, the past few weeks they were having issues submitting Expense report sheets for approval.  When the user would submit, the status would change to "Submission in Process" and wouldn't move forward in the approval process.  The sheet would show no approvers and the expected approvers had no new work in their worklist. They all assumed some AWE or Security configuration was missing or messed up.  This didn't make sense to me, since the environment was being refreshed weekly and working fine up to this point.  That being said, I still looked there for a solution, as I had no other ideas.  Everything seemed to look OK, matching our production environment for the most part.  I the