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Creating Competency Categories

The Competency Administration Category list is used to classify skills. Related skills are grouped logically, using categories and subcategories. Categories define the structure through which skills are ordered.

This task is a step in Process of Setting Up Competency Management.

To create a new category

1. From the application-level menu, choose Navigate > Site Map > Administration - Competency > Competency Administration.
2. In the Skill Hierarchy explorer, select a parent category.
3. In the Category/Skill list, add a new record, and then complete the fields.

   The following table describes the fields in the category/skill record.

   Field	Comments
   Name	The name of the category.
   Type	Indicate the type of record you are creating (Category or Skill).
   Rating Type	The appropriate rating scale. For more information, see Defining a Rating Scale with Rating Values.
   Description	A description of the category.
   Inactive	A check mark indicates that a category or skill is inactive. Inactivating or activating a root category does not affect the subcategories and skills within the category.

To create a child category

1. From the application-level menu, choose Navigate > Site Map > Administration - Competency > Competency Administration.
2. In the Skill Hierarchy explorer, select a parent category.
3. In the child items list add a new record, and then complete the fields.