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Including Comptetencies in an Appraisal - description cannot be pulled through.

 
Maurice Moore
Including Comptetencies in an Appraisal - description cannot be pulled through.
by Maurice Moore - Monday, 31 March 2014, 6:25 PM
 

Hi,

I've been experimenting with the Appraisals/Competencies from Learning Plan functionality.

Although our users can select Competencies from their learning plans, only the competency Name is pulled through. This is a short text field and therefore limited. To provide more detail we have used the Description field (Long Text).

There appears to be no way of pulling through the Description field of the Competency into the Appraisal form. For us this is a significant shortcoming because being able to pull through the description would provide a simpler way of building appraisals... I'll explain why if anyone is interested. It's associated with the target of having one source of the truth and have that information available in multiple places ;-)

Is there any way of pulling through both the Competency Name and Description into an Appraisal?

I believe the same issue applies to pulling Goals into an appraisal. (name only)

I appreciate that enabling an optional field may present programming issues.

Maurice