The PeopleSoft Forms and Approval Builder allows you to design online forms, specify an approval process, and deploy them to users within your organization. This allows you to convert manual paper-based business processes into automated paperless processes. Forms are created using a simple wizard. No coding or customization is required.

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4. What is the Forms and Approval Builder?
• Enables organizations to replace paper forms and emails with
electronic forms
• Forms are configuration by business analysts – no writing of code
required
• Forms are enabled for approval workflow
• Developers can map data collected on forms to PeopleSoft Component
Interface to allow form data to be copied to a PeopleSoft transaction.
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5. Why Use Forms and Approval Builder?
• Does your organization have paper-based or Excel-based forms that
must be filled out?
• Do you have things that need to be circulated for approvals outside of
standard PeopleSoft transactions?
• Are there simple PeopleSoft transactions for which you desire
approvals where there is no standard workflow?
• Do you have a need for a document repository of forms?
• Do you need to maintain an audit trail of forms approval history?
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6. Key Features
• Both Classic and Fluid Versions Available (features vary slightly between them)
• Forms can be designed with both data fields and text information.
• Form Instructions can be included
• Forms can contain various types of data including Date, Yes/No, Text,
etc.
• Prompts can be defined to constrain entry of fields to only valid values
• Support is provided for attachments to forms
• Form access is controlled by Role
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7. Sample Business Cases
• Permission to bring in a temporary worker
• Request for employee payment outside of normal expenses (Example:
tuition reimbursement)
• Requirement for computer or office equipment for an employee
• Request to add new master data configuration (Examples: Carrier ID,
Commodity Code, Item Group, etc.)
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8. Example of Use Case with Fluid
• All managers in the company have the ability make a request for a
capital expenditure
• All requests must be circulated for approval before the expenditure can
be made
• Many people that might have the need to make a capital expenditure
request are not regular PeopleSoft users
• The Forms and Approval Builder will be used to create a form and
workflow for these requests
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9. Form Layout via Drag and Drop
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10. Full Form Layout
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11. Linking to Component Interface
• Commodity Codes are used on Bills of Lading to group and identify
products for freight rating and insurance purposes
• Commodity Codes in PeopleSoft often correspond to Freight Classes
• Items are assigned a Commodity Code
• For this example, we want to create a form that will allow a user to
request the addition of a new Commodity Code and then for that code
to be automatically added to PeopleSoft when approved
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12. Existing Commodity Code Example
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13. Form for Commodity Code
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14. Mapping the Form to a CI
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Defaults are
provided where
field is not on the
form

15. Completed Form
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16. Review and Approve Form
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17. Update to PeopleSoft CI is Successful
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18. Commodity Code is Added
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19. Wrap Up
• Use Forms and Approval Builder when you have simple paper-based or
email forms that need circulation for approval
• Useful for simple PeopleSoft transactions, particularly for set-up and
configuration steps that don’t have delivered approval workflow
• Most things can be done by a Business Analyst. Developer may be
needed for CI work or migration of forms between environments
• Worth trying out in your organization – but don’t set expectations too
high
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20. Contact me:
Session ID:
Steven Canter
Director, Global Service Delivery
Smart ERP Solutions
Steve.Canter@SmartERP.com