Question I most often get asked in OLM implementations are:
1) I want to see a training calendar – basically a page which will show learners which future training classes are available.
2) I want to plan for my Training Budget
3) Training Requests - How can a manager request for a training which does not exist yet?
While you will have to wait for Oracle Fusion Applications which has functionality for Training Calendar, the training budget functionality is a bit of a mixed bag.
Basically, up until 11i, Oracle had a Sub Menu in the Training Administrator responsibility called “Organization Training Plans”. In the 11i OTA User Guide documentation from Oracle, there is a reference to how to set up the Training Plans functionality. (See MOS Note ID 296537.1).
However, in R12, Oracle has removed this Sub Menu from Learning Administrator Responsibility, as well as removed any reference to this documentation in the user or implementation guides.
On opening up an SR (#3-5750081811) with Oracle to check, the advice that I got was that to add the sub menu - OTA Organization Training Plans (Prompt - Organization Training Plans) to the Main Menu - OTA Learning Administrator Menu. However, I was also told that since OTA.J.RUP2 (released Oct 2007), Development will not support these forms. The only reason the Menu items still exist is to view historical data. Curiously, I was told to use learning paths in R12 for this functionality, but this functionality falls far short of what was being offered under Organization Training Plans functionality. Eventually, I had to raise an ER (Bug #14225543) for this.
As for a functionality to request for a new training session which does not exist yet, again, OLM falls short here. So there are few workarounds:
> a) Administrators can define a class as 'Planned'. Employees can enrol to this and if there is enough interest, the class can be scheduled.
> b) Define an SIT/ EIT through which managers or employees can request for training.
> c) Create a survey in OLM to request for training. Users could enrol for this and launch the questions needed to submit request for training. This information could then be reported on for planning purposes. I personally like this option the best, because this way, everything is integrated within OLM pages.
There are a number of other features that you would think is standard, but not available, e.g.:
> Enrolling future dated hires into a future course.
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