2203899 - "Search by Competency" option visibility & behavior in Learning Activities

Depending on the development goal that's added to a Learning Activity, the “Search by Competency” option appears or not. How can it be removed/enabled?

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• SAP SuccessFactors Career Development Plan
• SAP SuccessFactors Learning

What defines whether it'll be possible to see this option or not is if the Development Goal, for which the Learning Activity is being created, has a competency associated with it or not.

Currently, there's no other way of defining whether users will be able to see this option or not. To have a different system behavior, it'd be possible to have an enhancement request (KBA 2090228) created for it, where the Product Management team can further review and assess the requested functionality to be considered in a future releaseFor customers who wish for this behavior to be changed.

This also applies for Learning integrated systems, where it's required to have the Competency Filters set up in the Development template xml, which references where the competencies come from. Example:

 <competency-filters>
    <exclude type="forms"/>
    <exclude type="roles"/>
    <exclude type="skills"/>
    <exclude type="questions"/>
    <exclude type="hidden"/>
    <include type="library" match="SuccessFactors 2.1 Competency Library"/>
  </competency-filters>

And it's also required to have the competency browser switched on, so it's possible to view and select competencies when adding a goal:

  <switches>
    <switch for="show-competency-browser" value="on" />
    <switch for="continuouspm-integration" value="on" />
  </switches>

Then, it'll be possible to select competencies when adding a goal:

Regarding the Competency Rating, that shows when adding an item from Learning. It shows by default once a competency has been mapped to an item in Learning. Once mapped, it shows by default and cannot be hidden.

NOTE: The warning message "There are no items associated to this competency", when trying to add Learning Activities searching by competencies in Development Plan, is displayed when competencies aren't yet associated to a Learning item in Learning. Without this configuration on Learning side, the system won't retrieve the Learning items associated to competencies in BizX. More information on how to configure competencies to Learning items can be found here: Competencies in Learning. And more information on the adding by competency functionality in CDP is available here: Development Plan and Career Worksheet - Add Learning Activity by Competency.

NOTE: If using "behaviors" in CDP rather than "competencies", the search by competency option won't appear.

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