Upgrade to PeopleTools 8.53?
We have recently begun testing PeopleSoft HRMS 9.1 Bundles 9-14 (currently on Bundle 8 in our production environment) and PeopleTools 8.52.20 (currently on Tools 8.52.09 in production), and we have come across a couple of issues where the long-term solution has been to upgrade to PeopleTools 8.53. Since we were hoping to implement these updates in a timely manner, we had not thought of going to Tools 8.53 at this point. However, with these issues, we are wondering if we should reconsider that decision.
As one case in point...a delivered page in Recruiting (Manage Interviews) was erroring out and not loading at all in the new demo environment. The response to the service request said that Application bundles are coded on the latest available tools patch. If the customer is not on the same PeopleTools patch, then such errors can appear. The issue is due to the use of a new feature implemented in PeopleTools 8.53 regarding the Horizontal Rule object used on page definitions. This feature allows the page level to be reset down one level so that level 1 and level 2