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Many years ago I put together a set of five alternate colour schemes for the PeopleSoft PIA. The intention was that clients could use a colour for each environment, for example, DEV could be Red, TST could be brown, UAT could be green, SIT could be purple etc.

This is how the environments could look:

Price: Free

Points to note:

• Installation or switching between schemes takes less than 5 minutes per environment, but does require a PIA bounce.
• I provided five schemes as it is assumed that DMO would stay with the vanilla colour scheme, and Production would be styled according to your company’s corporate colours.
• The colour choices are deliberately varying shades of the same colour. Although more attractive schemes could be designed using multiple hues I decided that describing the environments would then be much harder. It’s much easier to say “the red environment” than “the taupe and lilac environment” etc.
• These schemes will not work for the new ‘Swan’ UI in Tools 8.5x. If you’re using the classic style with 8.5x you maybe OK but I haven’t tested it.
• Some delivered images are altered, but that is the only upgrade implication.

This project has only been tested in Tools 8.4x and PeopleSoft HR.

The usual caveats apply … you install at your own risk, by downloading you agree not to attempt to profit from our work, no liability for loss or damages is given or inferred etc.

Installation Instructions:

Style Sheets:

1. Download the Zip file containing the projects from here (extract the contents using 7zip or similar).
2. Using App Designer, import the project SC_COLOURS. This loads the Style sheets for all of the colour schemes into PeopleSoft.
3. Within the PIA, navigate to:

   PeopleTools > Utilities > Administration > PeopleTools Options

4. Change the ‘Style Sheet Name’ field to PSSTYLEDEF_xyz, where ‘xyz’ is one of RED/GREEN/PURPLE/CYAN/BROWN.
5. Navigate to:

   PeopleTools > Portal > Portal Utilities > System Options

6. Change the ‘Style Sheet Name’ field to EOPP_SCSTYLEDEF_xyz, where ‘xyz’ is one of RED/GREEN/PURPLE/CYAN/BROWN.

Images:

1. Using App Designer, import the project SC_IMAGES from the folder corresponding to the colour graphics you want to load. This loads the images for the single colour scheme you want into PeopleSoft.

Finishing up:

1. Bounce the PIA and clear the cache. You may also have to clear your local browser cache.