Skills

Managing the skills for the People module

Overview

As a network admin, you can define the skills for users based on their job descriptions. You can choose to create and manage the skills, also allow any user to create skills from the User Portal.

Admin Portal > Modules > People > Skills

1. Search Skills: Enter the keyword in Quick Search text box and press ENTER to filter the skills in the list. Click the X in the Quick Search text box to clear the filters.

2. List of skills: List of all admin defined and user defined skills on the entire domain. The list displays an overview of all skills.

   • Skills: Name of the skill on the domain. Skill names in MangoApps are case-insensitive. For example, if you created a skill as 'Manual Testing', you cannot create another skill as 'manual Testing', or 'Manual testing', since all 3 are treated the same.

   • Created On: Date and time of creation of the skill on the domain.

   • Type: Displays whether the skill is 'User Defined' or 'Admin Defined'. Admin Defined skills are the ones that the network admins created via the Admin Portal and User Defined are the skills your users create on the User Portal. You can choose to allow only network admins to create skills via Admin Portal > Modules > People > Manage Skill Settings ().
3. Actions:

   • Edit: Click the Edit option to edit a skill.

   • Delete: Click the Delete option to delete a skill.

4. Manage Skills Settings: Click the(gear) button to manage the domain-wide skill creation permissions.
5. Add New Skill: Click the Add New Skill button to create a new admin defined skill on the domain.

Only network admins can delete skills in MangoApps.

Deleting a skill removes it from the users profiles who were assigned the skill.

Managing the Domain-wide Add Skill Settings

Click the(gear) button to open the Add Skill Settings pop-up and specify the skill creation permissions.

People > Manage Settings > Add Skill Settings

1. Who can add skills?

   • Anyone can add new skills: Select to allow any user to create new skills via the User Portal.

   • Only network admins can add new skills: Select to allow only network admins to create new skills via the Admin Portal for all users.

2. Save: Click the Save button to apply the settings to the People module.

Adding a New Skill

To create a new skill:

1. Click the Add New Skill button to open the Add New Skill pop-up.

2. Enter the name for the category in the Skill Name text box. For example, enter Ruby on Rails in the Skill Name text box.

3. In the Add New Skill pop-up, click the Save button to add the skill and close the pop-up. OR

   In the Add New Category pop-up, click the Save & add another button to save the created skill and add a new one without closing the Add New Skill pop-up.

4. Click the Save button to save the new created skill(s) on your domain.

Adding a new skill

To see how these configurations impact the People Directory on the User Portal, see People Directory & Profile in the User Portal Guide.

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