Permission List: It is a collection of menus, components, pages etc.

Roles: It is a collection of permission lists.

User profiles: Assigning roles to different user dynamically.

Field level security: To provide access of a particular field to a particular user. It is

maintained by using People Code.

Row level security: It is based on search records. When a user performs a search,
the results are filtered through security views in order to limit the results only to
those who are authorized for the same.

PIA: Its an acronym for Pure Internet Architecture.

Client  Web Server  Application Server  PeopleSoft Database

Batch Server

Client: This is front end.

Web server: Used to support web architecture.

Application server: Place where People Tools are installed and any processing logic
gets executed.

Batch server: Used to run any reports or processes.

PS database: Used to maintain data. It is collection of tables.

ID’s: There are mainly four types of ID’s.

• Connect ID: It is used to connect to Application Designer and to check

existence of physical connection between client system database. It is given
in configuration manager.

• User ID: It is used to connect to PIA and access People Tools application.

• Symbolic ID: This acts as a mediator between user id and access id. It
creates a temporary connection to the database where we can access the
PeopleSoft tables.
• Access ID: It drops the temporary connection created by symbolic id. This
helps in creating a permanent connection using which we can access the
folders, content references and tables which are added to the permission list.