The definition table for PeopleSoft Project is PSPROJECTDEFN.

PSPROJECTITEM
table holds all the objects included in a PeopleSoft object.

1. PSPROJECTDEFN - Project Definition Table

2. PSPROJECTITEM - Project Item table with PSPROJECTDEFN as Parent
record.

In order to analyze a project from backend during upgrades, applying patches or

during major application releases it would be much easier if we could analyze from
the project details from the database directly. Sometimes, we may have to even
insert multiple definitions into a project and doing that manually would be painsome.
Understanding both PSPROJECTDEFN and PSPROJECTITEM tables will help us to
play around.

PeopleSoft project creation in Application Designer is a simple activity which inserts

corresponding project row in PSPROJECTDEFN. So I would prefer creating a
PeopleSoft project in Application Designer rather than through database using SQL
queries.

But doing something with PSPROJECTITEM, understanding the data stored in

PSPROJECTITEM looks rather difficult until you do it atleast once. Since the fields in
PSPROJECTITEM does not have translate values we need to know the description
of values stored in the fields - OBJECTTYPE, SOURCESTATUS, TARGETSTATUS,
UPGRADEACTION, TAKEACTION and COPYDONE.

Below is the PSPROJECTITEM table and the various field values it can hold along
with the descriptions. Once we understand this table, then we can play around and
accomplish a lot of activities related to PS projects.
Field Name Values
PROJECTNAME Name of the Project in Upper case
OBJECTTYPE 0=Record
1=Index
2=Field
3=Field Format
4=Translate Values
5=Page
6=Menu
7=Component
8=Record PC
9=Menu PC
10=Query View
11=Tree Structures
12=Trees
13=Access Group
14=Colors
15=Styles
16=Business Pro Map
17=Business Process
18=Activity
19=Roles
20=Process Definitions
21=Server Definitions
22=Process Type Definitions
23=Job Definitions
24=Recurrence Definitions
25=Message Catalog Entry
26=Dimensions
27=Analysis Model
28=Cube Template
29=Business Interlink
30=SQL
31=File Layout Definitions
32=Component Interface
33=App Engine Programs
34=App Engine Sections
35=Message Nodes
36=Message Channels
37=Messages
38=Approval Rule Sets
39=Message PC
40=Subscription PC
41=Not Used
42=Componenten Interface PC
43=Application Engine PC
44=Page PC
45=Page Field PC
46=Component PC
47=Component Record PC
48=Component Record Field PC
49=Image
50=Style Sheet
51=HTML
52=File Reference Objects
53=Permission List
54=Portal Registry Definitions
55=Portal Registry Structure
56=URL Definitions
 57=Application Package
58=Application Package PC
59=Portal Registry User Homepages
60=Analytic Types
61=Archive Templates
62=XSLT
63=Portal Reg User Favorites
64=Mobile Page
65=Relationships
66=Component Interface Property
PC
67=Optimization Model
68=File Reference
69=File Type Codes
70=Archive Object Definitions
71=Archive Templates
72=Diagnostic Plug-In
73=Analytic Models
74=Not Used
75=Java Portlet User Preferences
76=WSRP Remote Producer
77=WSRP Remote Portlet
78=WSRP Cloned Portlet Handle
79=Services
80=Service Operations
81=Service Operation Handlers
82=Service Operation Versions
83=Routing Defnitions
84=IB Queues
85=XMLP Template Defn
86=XMLP Report Defn
87=XMLP File Defn
88=XMLP Data Src Defn
OBJECTID1 OBJECTID1
OBJECTVALUE1 Object Value 1
OBJECTID2 OBJECTID2
OBJECTVALUE2 Object Value 2
OBJECTID3 OBJECTID3
OBJECTVALUE3 Object Value 3
OBJECTID4 OBJECTID4
OBJECTVALUE4 Object Value 4
 NODETYPE Node Type
SOURCESTATUS 0=Unknown
1=Absent
2=Changed
3=Unchanged
4=*Changed
5=*Unchanged
6=Same
TARGETSTATUS 0=Unknown
1=Absent
2=Changed
3=Unchanged
4=*Changed
5=*Unchanged
6=Same
UPGRADEACTION 0=Copy
1=Delete
2=None
3=Copy Properties
TAKEACTION 0=No
1=Yes
COPYDONE 0=No
1=Yes

There are several sources through which we can get these values in a search engine
however one would like to know where we can find these values rather than relying
on a web source.

Where to find values and description of OBJECTTYPE in PSPROJECTITEM

Record?

1. From PeopleTools 8.50, the values of OBJECTTYPE field can be retrieved

from the table - PS_WHEREOBJUSEDTBL(not sure if available in People
Tools 8.49).
2. UPG.SQC has the values for all these fields - OBJECTTYPE,
SOURCESTATUS, TARGETSTATUS, UPGRADEACTION, TAKEACTION
and COPYDONE.