Understanding the Content Catalog

The content catalog is a repository of the data that can be associated with person and non-person profiles, and is used by other applications such as PeopleSoft ePerformance, Talent Acquisition Manager, Candidate Gateway, and Learning Management.

In PeopleSoft HCM, the content catalog provides a generic structure for setting up different types of information. The following diagram illustrates the generic structure in which the content catalog contains multiple content types and the content types contain content items. It also illustrates a specific example of where the content catalog contains content types for language skills, degrees, and competencies:

With the content catalog you define the different types of information (competency, degrees, languages, and so on) as content types and then set up the data for each content type as content items. For example, within the content type DEG (Degrees), a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) is a content item.

The structure of the content catalog enables you to easily add new content types to your organization's profiles.

Content Catalog System Data

The PeopleSoft application delivers the content catalog already populated with a set of content types. You can add content types and content items to the content catalog to suit your organizational requirements.

Note:

PeopleSoft delivers content items as sample data only.

The following content types are delivered as system data:

Content Type	Description
AREA STUDY	Areas of Study
COMPETENCY	Competencies
CRITERIA	Element Criteria
DEG	Degrees
EDLVLACHV	Education Level
EG SPCL PROJ	(E&G) Educ and Govt Special Projects
ELEMENT	Competency Elements
GEOG_PREF	Geography Preferences
GOAL	Goals and objectives
HON	Honors and awards
INITIATIVE	Initiatives
INTL_PREF	International Preferences
LIC	Licenses and certifications
LNG	Language skills
LOCATION	Current Location
LOCATN_PREF	Location Preferences
MEM	Memberships
MISSION	Mission Statements
NVQ	NVQs
NVQ UNIT	NVQ Units
NVQ ELEMENT	NVQ Elements
RANK	Military Rank.
RESP	Responsibilities
SPECL PROJ	Special Projects
SUB COMP	Sub-Competencies
TRAVEL	Travel Preferences
TST	Tests/Examinations

Note:

The RANK content type is for military customers to record rank in profiles. You can integrate Manage Profiles with Job Data using the Event Manager, so that when a person's rank is updated in Job Data, the profile is automatically updated.

See PeopleSoft Human Resources Administer Workforce: Job Data - Salary Plan Page.

See Events and Notifications Framework: Understanding Event Setup.