Good Morning All
The HEUG East Conference (in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area) concluded on Tuesday, October 10 and it was great! I had the opportunity to meet a lot of people from this region whom I've never met before, I learned lots of new things, and enjoyed the best conference food I have ever had. (I'm not exaggerating. Fantastic is a good description of both lunches and the networking event.)
In addition, I was able to attend the HEUG Central in Chicago, on October 2nd and 3rd. Here is a mash-up of a few of the things I learned.
- Strings Table in PeopleSoft - Similar to the message catalog, or even Tree Manager, the Strings table can be used for field labels and whatever else you are clever enough to figure out.
- SmartSheet can do some very cool things. - At Duke, we have been using it to track our PUM testing. UW-Madison has been using it for FA test tracking. NC State is doing some really amazing things with it. This is a new tool to research and figure out how to use.
- The Cumulative Feature Overview Tool (on via the PeopleSoft Update Manager Home Page) can provide a targeted list of upgrade items. I had not used this much before, but will be adding it to my list of PUM To-Dos.
- I learned a lot of new-to-me SQL Expressions. One of the speakers shared her Expressions library!
- New things about CommGen FANs
- Everyone is using Slate. And, apparently everyone loves it.
Plus -and this is why I love the HEUG conferences- I got to meet and talk to a lot of people. I met folks from all over the mid-West, and from New England to Virginia to Florida. I made new friends and got to see some old ones. (Both are great, but it is hardest to make old friends.) And now, I feel like I have a whole new set of resources and people I can call when I get stuck on a particularly thorny issue.
Thank you and a big shout-out to our presenters! Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you. Presenting is a lot of work, but it is also a great opportunity to grow professionally. I look forward to seeing many of you at the next conference, or on the next Zoom call. (Or, perhaps as I furtively type you an email in the middle of the night for ideas or suggestions.)
Take Care.
tj
Tom Johnson
tom.johnson@duke.edu
**None of us is as smart as all of us **