Skill libraries
The text explains the concept of libraries within AG5, detailing their purpose in organizing skills, how to create them, structure skills within them, delete categories and libraries, and provides bes
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The text explains the concept of libraries within AG5, detailing their purpose in organizing skills, how to create them, structure skills within them, delete categories and libraries, and provides bes
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Libraries are where skills are organized, labeled and structured into category trees. Think of this as a virtual bookcase.
This tree structure of groups is used within many places in AG5. It allows the user to select or filter by a group of skills (also known as qualifications).
Most importantly, if your skill do not live in a library, they will not be visible in any matrix.
In a library, skills can be categorized based on anything, such as content, type, or use.
The way your libraries are structured directly affects how your skills appear on a matrix. When you change something in a library, your matrices are automatically updated.
There is no limit to the number of libraries that can be created. Having separate libraries for skills can be useful.
Steps:
Go to the Organization page.
Select .
Add a name for your new skills library.
Select thebutton.
Your library is created.
The title of your library is determined by what you choose to name your first category.
Open your library.
Select the newly created category.
Change the name of your category.
Change the code of the category.
.Click in the white area to deselect the category.
Search for the skill you want to add to a category.
Drag and drop the skill into the correct category.
Categories are ordered based on category codes - first numerically and then alphabetically.
To double check which categories you've placed your skills into, you can see each category they belong to on the skills tab. You'll also see if a skill is missing from a library - when that's the case, no category will be listed.
Libraries must be completely empty before they can be deleted. This is to reduce the chances of accidental deletion.
Deleting skills only removes them from libraries and does not remove the skill entirely from the skills menu.
Remove all categories by doing the same.
Finally, select the top category and delete.
If the below menu is missing from the library screen, this means you have selected an item in the tree and the details of that item are displayed. Simply click anywhere in the white area on your screen to deselect that item.
Each category creates a header on a matrix.
Categories which contain only a small number of skills will often be too small to read on a matrix, unless clicked or collapsed.
Skills can live in more than one category.
It is possible to add skills to more than one category. As shown below, moving a skill (in this case, "Test") from one category to another does not add multiple instances of a skill (also known as qualification).
However, if dragged over from the right, a skill can be added to more than one category.
While beneficial in certain circumstances, skills living under more than one category will create duplication on a matrix, so bear this in mind.
Once you have finished building your first library with all of your skills, it's time to use them to add requirements to AG5.
Drag theelement from the right side and drop it into the white area of your library.
On the right-hand side, select .
If you wish to delete a skill from a category, click on the skill and then the symbol.
Remove all skills by selecting them and then clicking on the trashcan icon that appears on the right.
See how these categories are nested under "Skills"
And how that is mirrored here, on the matrix
When a new subcategory is added and 5 skills moved into it...
It is reflected on the matrix
After moving all but 2 skills out of "New category"
"New category" becomes unreadable unless it's clicked on or collapsed
This pattern continues when adding more subcategories underneath "Soft Skills"
As seen, these subcategories also show up on a matrix
