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Custom Objects in PeopleSoft: Custom objects are the objects built by a PeopleSoft client to accommodate their business needs.

Customized Objects in PeopleSoft: Customized objects are the delivered objects from PeopleSoft to which the client made some changes to accommodate their business requirements.

The following are the common AR Transaction tables

PS_ITEM  - Item related information will be stored.

PS_GROUP_CONTROL – Groups related information will be stored

PS_PENDING_ITEM  - Pending items related to pending group will be stored.

PS_ITEM_DST - Accounting information related to a pending group will be stored.

PS_PENDING_DST - Accounting information related to a posted group will be  stored.

PS_DEPOSIT_CONTROL - Deposit related information will be stored

PS_PAYMENT - Payment related information will be stored.

 

PeopleSoft change assistant is a standalone application delivered with PeopleTools 8.4x onwards. PeopleSoft change assistant can be used for applying patches and fixes for maintenance updates.

PeopleSoft change assistant grabs all the required information from the Environment Management Hub and uploads it to the PeopleSoft customer connection site. With this environment information, PeopleSoft customer connection will determine what updates should be applied to your environment.

When you access customer connection, you can get a list of all unapplied updates for your given application environment including any prerequisites. So you can download all the change packages and apply the fixes and patches to your environment with very minimal effort.

Make sure you setup environment name by going to  PeopleTools -> PeopleTools Options

Enter the Environment Long Name and Environment Short Name parameters.

PeopleSoft delivers templates for each update in change packages. Whenever you apply updates by using the Apply change package option, change assistant will automatically loads the template into Change Assistant. You can add additional tasks and steps into the template.

Check your PeopleBooks for more detailed information on this.

Note: You can only apply application relates fixes using PeopleSoft Change Assistant. You can not apply PeopleTools fixes / Patches with change assistant. You should use Upgrade Assistant for that purpose.