The Cool Tools You Can Use series describes a business challenge, the PeopleSoft solution to the challenge, and how you can learn more. This posting focuses on Mass Transaction Manager.
Being able to adjust and transfer many assets at once without IT intervention is essential to efficient asset management. To reduce the demands on IT and to simplify the process of making mass updates to assets while improving the controls and governance over the execution of changes, PeopleSoft 9.2 now converts from the use of Mass Change to a new framework called Mass Transaction Manager. All of the former Mass Change transactions are available in Mass Transaction Manager so that an organization can switch to Mass Transaction Manager and no longer rely on Mass Change. Additionally, if an organization chooses to create its own mass update transactions, the Mass Transaction Manager offers a much-improved interface for developers and users.
The new Mass Transaction Manager offers significant improvements over the PeopleTools Mass Change tool. With Mass Transaction Manager, Asset Management acquires a user-focused, instead of IT-focused, interface for running mass updates. Enhanced prompts with subordinate keys appear in an easy-to-understand user interface. Key benefits of Mass Transaction Manager over Mass Change include no need to enter data multiple times, row-level security, the ability to execute processing logic, and confidence that the most current version of the updates is being run. Although Asset Management is the first PeopleSoft application to make use of the Mass Transaction Manager tool, its rich framework can be used by other applications in the future to improve the governance of their mass update processes.
To learn more about Mass Transaction Manager, please review the Mass Transaction Manager section of the PeopleSoft Asset Management online documentation.