PeopleSoft Projects

PSPROJECTDEFN table stores information about projects created in Application Designer.

Try it out:

SELECT * FROM PSPROJECTDEFN

WHERE PROJECTNAME = 'Your_Project_name';

PSPROJECTITEM table stores objects inserted into your Application Designer project.
Try it out:

SELECT * FROM PSPROJECTITEM

WHERE PROJECTNAME = 'Your_Project_name';

Portal Structure
PSPRSMDEFN is a Portal Structure Definition table. A good example is to use this table to find
portal path for a specific component. Take a closer look on how this is done!.

PSPRSMPERM: Shows the permission lists that are assigned to a portal registry structure
(content reference). The permission list name is under field PORTAL_PERMNAME.

XLAT Tables
XLATTABLE: Stores translate values (PeopleSoft version prior to 8.4).
PSXLATDEFN: Stores all fields that have Xlat values. This table does not store any Xlat
values.
PSXLATITEM: Stores fields with their actual translate values (PeopleSoft version 8.4 and
above).

Record & Field Tables

PSRECDEFN: Stores informations about tables. One row for each table. Field count and record
type are two fields that are stored on this table.

CASE RECTYPE
        WHEN 0 THEN 'Table'
        WHEN 1 THEN 'View'
        WHEN 2 THEN 'Derived'
        WHEN 3 THEN 'Sub Record'
        WHEN 5 THEN 'Dynamic View'
        WHEN 6 THEN 'Query View'
        WHEN 7 THEN 'Temporary Table'
        ELSE TO_CHAR(RECTYPE)
END CASE

PSRECFIELD: Stores records with all their fields (sub-records are not expanded)

PSRECFIELDALL: Stores records with all their fields (sub-records are expanded)

PSINDEXDEFN: Contains 1 row per index defined for a table.

PSKEYDEFN: Containes 1 row per key field defined for an index.

PSDBFIELD: You got it, stores information about fields.

CASE FIELDTYPE
                WHEN 0 THEN 'Character'
                WHEN 1 THEN 'Long Character'
                WHEN 2 THEN 'Number'
                WHEN 3 THEN 'Signed Number'
                WHEN 4 THEN 'Date'
                WHEN 5 THEN 'Time'
                WHEN 6 THEN 'DateTime'
                WHEN 8 THEN 'Image'
                WHEN 9 THEN 'Image Reference'
                ELSE TO_CHAR(FIELDTYPE)
        END CASE

PSDBFLDLABL: Stores field label information.

Process Definition Table(s)

PS_PRCSDEFNPNL: Stores the process definition name, process type(sqr report, application
engine...), and the component name associated with the process definition.

PS_PRCSDEFN: Process definitions table. The record stores processes that can run within the
Process Scheduler. Security information such as components and process groups are also stored
on this table.

Message Catalog Tables

PSMSGCATDEFN: Stores information about PeopleSoft message catalogs such as message set
number, message number and the actual message text.

PSMSGCATLANG: language table.

-- Example
SELECT * FROM PSMSGCATDEFN
WHERE LAST_UPDATE_DTTM  > TO_DATE('03-DEC-07', 'DD-MON-YY')
AND LAST_UPDATE_DTTM  < TO_DATE('05-DEC-07', 'DD-MON-YY')
ORDER BY MESSAGE_SET_NBR, MESSAGE_NBR;
-- This will return messages that has been last update/added
between 2 specific dates.

Previous PeopleSoft message catalog tables:

PS_MESSAGE_CATALOG: Stores information about PeopleSoft message catalogs such as
message set number, message number and the actual message text.
MESSAGE_SET_TBL: Message set description table.
-- Example
SELECT * FROM PS_MESSAGE_CATALOG
WHERE LAST_UPDATE_DTTM  > TO_DATE('03-DEC-07', 'DD-MON-YY')
AND LAST_UPDATE_DTTM  < TO_DATE('05-DEC-07', 'DD-MON-YY')
ORDER BY MESSAGE_SET_NBR, MESSAGE_NBR;
-- This will return messages that has been last update/added
between 2 specific dates.

Menu Tables
PSMENUDEFN: Store Menu related information. No related component info on this table.

PSMENUITEM: List the menu with all components attached to it.

Component Tables
PSPNLGRPDEFN: Stores component related information only.

PSPNLGROUP: This table will give you information regarding a specific component along
with the names of pages attached to it.

Pages
PSPNLDEFN: Stores pages definitions.

CASE PNLTYPE
        WHEN 0 THEN 'Page'
        WHEN 1 THEN 'Sub page'
        WHEN 2 THEN 'Secondary page'
        ELSE TO_CHAR(PNLTYPE)
    END CASE

PSPNLFIELD: Stores all items used by each page definition.

CASE FIELDTYPE
        WHEN 0 THEN 'Static Text'
        WHEN 1 THEN 'Frame'
        WHEN 2 THEN 'Group Box'
        WHEN 3 THEN 'Statis Image'
        WHEN 4 THEN 'Edit Box'
        WHEN 5 THEN 'Dropdown List'
        WHEN 6 THEN 'Long Edit Box'
        WHEN 7 THEN 'Check Box'
        WHEN 8 THEN 'Radio Button'
        WHEN 9 THEN 'Image'
        WHEN 10 THEN 'Scroll Bar'
        WHEN 11 THEN 'Subpage'
        WHEN 12 THEN 'Peoplecode Command - (Button/Hyperlink
Destination)'
        WHEN 13 THEN 'Scroll Action - (Button/Hyperlink
Destination)'
        WHEN 14 THEN 'Toolbar Action - (Button/Hyperlink
Destination)'
        WHEN 15 THEN 'External Link - (Button/Hyperlink
Destination)'
        WHEN 16 THEN 'Internal Link - (Button/Hyperlink
Destination)'
        WHEN 17 THEN 'Process - (Button/Hyperlink Destination)'
        WHEN 18 THEN 'Secondary Page'
        WHEN 19 THEN 'Grid'
        WHEN 20 THEN 'Tree'
        WHEN 21 THEN 'Secondary Page - (Button/Hyperlink
Destination)'
        WHEN 23 THEN 'Horizontal Rule'
        WHEN 24 THEN 'Tab Separator'
        WHEN 25 THEN 'Html Area'
        WHEN 26 THEN 'Prompt Action - (Button/Hyperlink
Destination)'
        WHEN 27 THEN 'Scroll Area'
        WHEN 29 THEN 'Page Anchor'
        WHEN 30 THEN 'Chart'
        WHEN 31 THEN 'Push Button/Link'
        WHEN 32 THEN 'Analytic Grid'
        ELSE TO_CHAR(FIELDTYPE)
    END CASE

Security
PSPRSMPERM: Portal Structure Permissions.
PSAUTHITEM: Page Permissions. This table stores the information about the page level access
for a permission list.

PSROLECLASS: Role Classes table. A many to many relationship table between Roles and
Permission Lists.

PSROLEDEFN: This table stores information about Peoplesoft Role definitions. Users get
permissions to PeopleSoft objects through Roles, which are assigned Permission Lists.

PSROLEUSER: This table stores information about the Users in Peoplesoft and the roles
assigned to them.

PSCLASSDEFN: Permissions List definitions table. Permission list name can be found under
Field Name CLASSID.

PSOPRDEFN: Users/Operator definition table. This table stores information about PeopleSoft
users. This is the core table for User Profile Manager.

PSOPRCLS: Users/Operator and Perm list mapping Table. This table stores information about
PeopleSoft users and the permission lists attached to those users.
A User gets these permission lists indirectly through the roles which are attached to the user

Here is an example query post that uses all of the above security tables!

URL Definitions
PSURLDEFN: Stores URL definitions. Here is the path to create URL definitions in PeopleSoft
Root >> PeopleTools >> Utilities >> Administration >> URLs

Application Classes
PSAPPCLASSDEFN: Application Class Definitions table. You can use field PACKAGEROOT
to search for a specific Application Package.

PeopleSoft Query Tables

PSQRYDEFN: Stores query related info.

PSQRYFIELD: Stores all fields used in a query (both the fields in the Select and Where
clause).

PSQRYCRITERIA: Stores criteria query fields. You can get the name of the fields by joining
the PSQRYFIELD table.

PSQRYEXPR: Stores query expressions.

PSQRYBIND: Stores query bind variables.

PSQRYRECORD: Stores all records used in all aspects of query creation

PSQRYSELECT: Stores all SELECT requirements by select type. Example would be sub
select, join, ect.

PSQRYLINK: Stores the relationships to child queries.

PSQRYEXECLOG: Query run time log table that stores (only 8.4x and higher)

PSQRYSTATS: Query run time statistics table such as count of query execution, and date time
of last execution (only in 8.4x and higher).

SQL Objects
PSSQLDEFN: Stores SQL object definitions.

PSSQLDESCR: Stores SQL objects descriptions, and description long.

PSSQLTEXTDEFN: Stores actual SQL text. You can filter by SQLTYPE field to get SQL
objects of interest such as Views SQLs and Application Engine SQLs.

-- When SQL type is:

0 = Stand alone SQL objects
1 = Application engine SQL
2 = Views SQLs

Application Engines
PSAEAPPLDEFN: Table that stores Application Engine program definitions.

PSAEAPPLSTATE: Stores application engine STATE records and a flag to indicate if the
record is the default STATE record.

PSAESECTDEFN: Application engine section information and also stores last user id to update
a specific section.

PSAESECTDTLDEFN: AE section along with descriptions and wither the section is active or
not.

PSAEAPPLTEMPTBL: If your application engine uses Temp tables it will show on this
record.

PSAESTEPDEFN: Steps in application engines are stored in this table.

PSAESTMTDEFN: Stores your application engine actions and along with their types, such as
"Do Select" and so on.

PSAESTEPMSGDEFN: Application engine message action definition table.

AEREQUESTTBL: Application Engine request table behind the AE run control page.

AEREQUESTPARM: Application Engine request parameters table behind the AE run control
page.

PeopleCode Tables
PSPCMNAME: PeopleCode Reference table.

PSPCMPROG: Store actual PeopleCode programs (actual code behind PeopleCode events).

Process Request Tables

PSPRCSQUE: This record contains the process request information to run a process request.

PSPRCSRQST: This record contains the process request information to run a process request.

PS_PMN_PRCSLIST: A view to list all process requests in the Process Monitor except for
"Delete" (runstatus = 2) process requests.

Other Useful Tables

PSSTATUS: Stores PeopleSoft information such as PS Tools release version and the
UNICODE_ENABLED boolean flag where a value of 1 indicates the DB is to be treated by
Tools as a UNICODE DB.

PSCHGCTLLOCK: Description as explained by PeopleSoft "This table contains a a row for

every object that is currently locked by any user. When the user requests to lock an object in the
Application Designer, first this table is searched to see if the object is locked by another user. If
it is not found, a row is inserted into the table. When the user requests to unlock an object, the
row in this table is deleted."
Visit this post to see how could you make use of this table.

PSMAPFIELD: Stores Field mapping of Activity

PS_PRCSRUNCNTL: Run Control record stores Run Control IDs created online.