Skills can be created in the Intranet for users to attribute to themselves and give a proficiency rating.
These appear on their profile for others to view in the 'expertise' field, and a search can be performed to see who has those skills.
This guide covers this functionality.
Managing Skills as an administrator
- Adding skills
An application administrator of People can add skills by heading to Admin > People > Configure Skills
This will open the 'Skills Management' area, where any skills already configured will be listed.
To add a new skill:
- Click the 'Create new skill' button.
- A pop-up will appear where the name of the skill can be entered.
- Click 'Create' to add the skill to the system.
- Merge/delete skills
The next available tab as an administrator in this area is the ability to merge skills together or to delete them.
If two or more skills are similar and could be merged, this can be carried out under a new overarching skill name, or by retaining one of the names already given.
- Give other users the ability to create new skills
The final tab available on the administrative side is where the right to create new skills can be given.
This means users with this permission can create new skills when editing their profile, rather than just choosing from the list administrators have already created.
Any new skill users with this permission create will be added in the back end and become available for everyone else to choose when editing their profiles.
For this reason, only give this permission to trusted individuals.
Using Skills on the front end
- User attributes Skills to themselves
When editing their profile, a user can choose skills that apply to them and give themselves a proficiency rating.
Individual skills can be added to the profile or several at once by using the multiple select field given, as shown below:
- Expertise field
The skills a user has chosen will appear in the hardcoded 'expertise' user profile field.
If this is not appearing on your site, make sure it is chosen to appear in the 'view my profile' area.
- Skills search
This can be accessed via the eye icon given on the front end of People or when on a user's profile.
Once in the search, a user can click into the dropdown to see the whole list of configured skills and select one or multiple.
The returned list will give each user who attributed this skill to themselves and the proficiency rating chosen.
A Skills search is helpful when needing to find assistance for a particular task or projeect.
