How do I Allow Nonlibrary Skills in Skills Center and Team Skills Center?
You enable the option Allow nonlibrary skills in Skills Center and Team Skills Center in Skills Settings ().
The default behavior before this feature was to allow a user to either select from a suggested skill or to type in their own. With the introduction of a skill catalog with over 10,000 skills and 50,000 synonyms, customers often no longer need to let employees to enter their own skills – as this often increases the effort of maintaining a clean skill ontology.
For example – today, many customers find that employees are adding a skill like J2EE, instead of selecting a skill like Java, which can often lead to skills being assigned to the employee that they might already have but is named differently.
This feature only limits employees and managers adding new skills in Skills Center, and preventing managers from creating new skills when assigning skills. Other areas like adding skills to learning items, or candidates profiling themselves, or users importing their LinkedIn profile aren't affected – meaning free-form skills are still allowed from these areas.