GLOSSARY
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- Activity
- Any educational offering that is designed to improve a student's qualifications, competencies, or experience. Examples: a training course, on-the-job training, structured work experience. An activity defines what a supplier can offer, but it has no dates attached. An activity is a version of an activity type.
- See also: Scheduled Event
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- Alternative Regions
- Parts of a window that appear in a stack so that only one is visible at any time. You click on the name of the region to pop up a list of the other regions in the stack. Select the name of a region to bring it to the top of the stack.
- Appraisal
- A 'superset' of recording opinions and setting and achieving objectives, plans and so on.
- See also: Assessment
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- Assessment
- An information gathering exercise, from one or many sources, to evaluate a person's ability to do a job.
- See also: Appraisal
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- Behavioral Indicators
- Characteristics that identify how a competence is exhibited in the work context.
- See also: Proficiency Level
- Block
- The largest subordinate unit of a window, containing information for a specific business function or entity. Every window consists of at least one block. Blocks contain fields and, optionally, regions. They are delineated by a bevelled edge. You must save your entries in one block before navigating to the next.
- See also: Region, Field.
- Business Group
- The highest level organization in the Oracle HRMS system. A Business Group may correspond to the whole of your enterprise or to a major grouping such as a subsidiary or operating division. Each Business Group must correspond to a separate implementation of Oracle HRMS.
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- Category
- These enable you to group together activities that you want to schedule and administer as a program, or offer together as a discount package, or classify for reporting purposes. When you define a category, you can specify whether it can be used as a program, package, and/or classification.
- See also: Program, Package.
- Competence
- Any measurable behavior required by an organization, job or position that a person may demonstrate in the work context. A competence can be a piece of knowledge, a skill, an attitude or an attribute.
- Competence Profile
- Where you record applicant and employee accomplishments, for example, proficiency in a competence.
- Competence Type
- A group of related competencies
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- Descriptive Flexfield
- A field that your organization can customize to capture additional information required by your business but not otherwise tracked by Oracle Applications.
- See also: Key Flexfield.
- Development Event
- A mechanism for scheduling employee time and other resources required to develop new training activities or to enhance existing ones. You can attach a budget to a development event.
- See also: Event
- Discount
- An agreement to supply student places on one or more events at a reduced price. The agreement may be restricted to one customer or open to all. It may be restricted to a maximum number of places.
- See also: Enrollment Agreement
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- Enrollment Agreement
- An agreement about the price or method of payment for one or more events. There are two types of agreement: discounts and prepurchase agreements.
- See also: Discount, Prepurchase Agreement
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- Event
- When you are ready to take enrollments or make resource bookings, you create an event. An event is a specific instance of an activity, scheduled to run on given dates, or a one-time event, which is not related to an activity.
- See also: Scheduled Event, One-time Event, Development Event
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- Field
- A view or entry area in a window where you enter, view, update, or delete information.
- See also: Block, Region.
- Finance Header
- This records the status of a financial transaction with a particular customer or supplier. There are three types of finance header: payable, receivable, and cancellation. You can transfer it to your finance system to trigger the creation of an invoice or payment, or the cancellation of an existing invoice or payment. You can associate one or more finance lines with each header.
- See also: Finance Line
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- Finance Line
- This records a sum of money to pay a supplier, or to charge a customer for an enrollment, or to deduct from the balance of a prepurchase agreement.
- See also: Finance Header
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- Folder
- A special block or window whose field and record layout you can customize. You can identify a folder block by the Open Folder icon in the upper left corner. You can save your customized field and record layout as a new folder.
- Form
- A predefined grouping of functions, called from a menu and displayed, if necessary, on several windows. Forms have blocks, regions and fields as their components.
- See also: Block, Region, Field.
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- Key Flexfield
- A flexible data field made up of segments. Each segment has a name you define and a set of valid values you specify. Used as the key to uniquely identify an entity, such a resource.
- See also: Descriptive Flexfield.
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- Menus
- You set up your own navigation menus, to suit the needs of different users.
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- One Time Event
- Any event for which you want to record basic information and enrollments, but which you do not need to define as an activity. Typically, this is an event that you do not expect to run more than once.
- See also: Event, Activity
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- Package
- A group of activities that may be the subject of an enrollment agreement.
- See also: Enrollment Agreement
- Personal Competence Profile
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- See: Competence Profile
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- Prepurchase Agreement
- A customer contracts to purchase a certain amount of training, measured in money or training units, on activities listed on a price list. This type of agreement may also incorporate a percentage discount.
- See also: Training Unit
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- Price List
- A catalog of activities and the prices at which they are available between certain dates. A price list either details prices in monetary terms (in a certain currency) or in training units.
- See also: Training Unit
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- Proficiency Level
- A system for expressing and measuring how a competence is exhibited in the work context.
- See also: Behavioral Indicators
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- Program
- A group of events that you schedule together. Students enroll on the program and you can charge them for the program as a whole rather than individual events.
- See also: Event
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- QuickCode Types
- Categories of information, such as nationality, address type and enrollment status, that have a limited list of valid values. You can add values to some QuickCode Types.
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- Region
- A collection of logically related fields in a window, set apart from other fields by a rectangular box or a horizontal line across the window.
- See also: Block, Field.
- Report Parameters
- Inputs you make when submitting a report to control the sorting, formatting, selection, and summarizing of information in the report.
- Report Security Group
- A list of reports and processes that can be submitted by holders of a particular responsibility.
- See also: Responsibility
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- Report Set
- A group of reports and concurrent processes that you specify to run together.
- Resource
- Any facility, person, or equipment that you need to book to run an event. Two special resource types in Oracle Training Administration are trainers and venues.
- Responsibility
- A level of authority in an application. Each responsibility lets you access a specific set of Oracle Applications forms, menus, reports, and data to fulfill your business role. Several users can share a responsibility, and a single user can have multiple responsibilities.
- See also: User Profile Options, Report Security Group.
- Restricted Event
- A scheduled event on which only selected customers or selected employees can enroll. You select valid customers by name and valid employees by organization, job, or position.
- See also: Scheduled Event
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- Scheduled Event
- A specific instance of an activity on which students can enroll and for which you can book resources.
- See also: Event, Activity
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- Session
- A unit of time within an event for which you can independently book resources. For example, you might divide a one day event into four two hour sessions, and a five week evening course into five evening sessions.
- Special Information Types
- Categories of personal information, such as skills, that you define in the Personal Analysis key flexfield.
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- Third Party Contact
- An agency that places enrollments for students employed by other customers. You create a third party contact as a customer.
- Training Unit
- Any user-defined expression of the cost of a training activity. For example, a customer might buy 100 hours of trainer time using a prepurchase agreement. This agreement must be based on a price list that expresses the cost of activities in trainer time. You might define the training unit as Half an Hour, so that a full day activity costs 16 training units.
- See also: Prepurchase Agreement
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- User Profile Options
- Features that enable system administrators and users to tailor Oracle Applications to their exact requirements.
- See also: Responsibility
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