Defining Functions to Implement the Competence Approach
If you have Oracle Human Resources and OTA installed in your enterprise, and you are implementing the competence approach, you can hold the qualifications, attributes and knowledge that students can expect to attain by attending training activities as competencies, skills or a mixture of both (competencies and skills). You can also allow specific users to add the competencies delivered by the activity to a student's Competence Profile.
Remember, to use skills, you need to set up Special Information Types. See: Skills Information
To use competencies, you need to set up a framework of competencies. See: Introducing Career Management Activities
Delivering Competencies or Skills Through Training Activities
You define functions to enable you to phase in the delivery of competencies through training activities. Functions enable you to indicate whether you want the Skills or the Competencies buttons to be available from the Activities window. When you first receive OTA, the Skills button already appears on the Activities window for users to enter skills. If you want users to enter competencies and not skills, you need to change the parameter values COMPETENCIES from NO to YES, and SKILLS from YES to NO.
You prevent either of the Competencies or Skills buttons from displaying by changing the parameter values from YES to NO. For example:
This prevents the Competencies button from displaying
This prevents the Skills button from displaying
Updating a Student's Competence Profile Through Training Activities
You also define functions to enable selected users to add competencies gained through an activity directly to a student's Competence Profile. If you want selected users to add competencies to students Competence Profiles, enter the following:
- DISPLAY_MODE="BOTH" COMPETENCIES="YES"
Note: Only the COMPETENCIES="YES" part of this string is required to add competencies to students Competence Profiles.
You use the Form Functions window to define functions to implement the competence approach.
To define functions:
1. Query the function to customize.
This is OTA_OTAPDDAV to define the Competencies or Skills buttons on the Activities window, and OTA_OTATAEDB to add competencies to the students Competence Profiles.
2. Enter the parameters you require in the Parameters field.
For example, if you want selected users to add competencies to students Competence Profiles, enter the following:
DISPLAY_MODE="BOTH" COMPETENCIES="YES"
