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About This Peo

pleBook

PeopleSoft En

terprise PeopleBooks provide you with the information that you need to implement and use PeopleSoft

Enterprise a

pplications from O racle.

This preface discusses:

• PeopleSoft Enterprise application prerequisites.

• Application fundamentals.

• Documentation updates and printed documentation.

• Additional resources.

• Typographical conventions and visual cues.

• Comments and suggestions.

• Common elements in PeopleBooks.

Note. PeopleBooks document only elements, such as fields and check boxes, that require additional explanation. If an

element is not documented with the process or task in which it is used, then either it requires no additional explanation

or it is documented w ith common elements for the s ection, chapter, PeopleBook, or product line. Elements that are

common to all PeopleSoft Enterprise applications are defined in this preface.

PeopleSoft Enterprise Application Prerequisites

To benefit fu

lly from the information that is covered in these books, you should have a basic understanding

of how to use P

eopleSoft Enterprise applications.

You might also want to complete at least one introductory training course, if applicable.

You should be familiar with navigating the system and adding, updating, and deleting information by using

PeopleSoft Enterprise menus, pages, or windows. You should also be comfortable using the World Wide Web

and the Microsoft Windows or Windows NT graphical user interface.

Thesebooksd

o n ot review navigation and other basics. They present the information that you need to use the

system and im

plement your PeopleSoft Enterprise applications most effectively.

Application Fundamentals

Each applic

ation PeopleBook provides implementation and processing information for your PeopleSoft

Enterprise

applications.

For some applications, additional, essential information describing the setup and design of your system appears

in a companion volume of documentation called the application fundamentals PeopleBook. Most product lines

have a version of the application fundamentals PeopleBook. The preface of each PeopleBook identifies the

application fundamentals PeopleBooks that are associated with that PeopleBook.