2203899 - Search by Competency Option Visibility & Behavior in Learning Activities

Depending on the development goal you add a Learning Activity to, 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 Management System (LMS) Integration

What defines whether you will be able to see this option or not, is if the Development Goal for which you are creating a Learning Activity, has a competency associated with it or not.

Examples:

1. Development goal with competencies associated:

 

2. Development goal without competencies associated:

 

Currently, there is no other way of defining whether users will be able to see this option or not. For customers who wish for this behavior to be changed, please submit your idea on the Customer Influence page.

This applies also for LMS integrated systems, where you must have Competency Filters set up in the Development template xml, which reference 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 you also need to have the competency browser switched on so you can view and select competencies when adding a goal:

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

You will then, be able to select competencies when adding a goal:

Regarding the Competency Rating that shows when adding an Item from LMS:

It shows by default once a competency has been mapped to an item in LMS. 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 are not yet associated to a learning item in Learning System. Without this configuration on LMS side, the system will not retrieve the learning items associated to competencies in bizX. More information on how to configure competencies to learning items in LMS, you can access in the SuccessFactors Learning Administration Help Guide > Adding Competencies to Courses. And more information on the adding by competency functionality in CDP, access the wiki page Career Development Plan and Career Worksheet - Add Learning Activity by Competency.

NOTE: If using "behaviors" in CDP rather than "competencies", the search by competency option will also not show.

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