PeopleSoft Bookmarklets
A few years ago I read about using Javascript to create "bookmarklets". These are browser bookmarks that, unlike normal bookmarks, do not point to a specific URL. They instead contain Javascript and run that script when selected. This allows you to do a number of interesting things, but one idea I really liked was using them to create universal bookmarks, or cross-environment bookmarks, for PeopleSoft. Basically, once you are logged into a PeopleSoft environment you can use a bookmarklet to transfer you to a specific page within that environment. This means I can have a single bookmarklet that takes me to a particular page of whatever environment I am in. So for example, I have one bookmarklet called "Process Monitor". If I am in FSCM and click that I am taken to Process Monitor for that environment, but if I am in HCM it takes me to that Process Monitor. How Do They Work? As I mentioned, a bookmarklet is just Javascript that does something . ...