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Oracle User Productivity Kit 3.5

By : Dirk Manuel
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Oracle User Productivity Kit 3.5

By: Dirk Manuel

Overview of this book

As the complexity of software applications increases and the length of the implementation life cycles decreases, companies are looking for effective ways of training users in new applications, and the new releases of existing applications. Oracle's User Productivity Kit solves these problems by enabling the rapid creation of software application simulations, which are used for training purposes or to generate business documents. Although UPK provides such advanced features, nothing has been written about this application yet. This book provides a guided approach to building high-quality, re-functional simulations of tasks performed in software applications. With this book in hand, it is easy for organizations that are implementing or upgrading software to meet their full training and documentation requirements. This book explains how to harness all of the functionality provided by Oracle's User Productivity Kit, formerly known as OnDemand, to develop better quality training. It also covers the advanced topics of customizing UPK's built-in delivery formats, and defining new ones to extend the capabilities of UPK. This book explains how to make the most of Oracle User Productivity Kit's available functionality to create high-quality simulations. These simulations can be used during instructor-led training, self-directed learning, or refresher training. By following the approach described in this book, you will create world-class training material that your trainees will find useful, engaging, and informative. As a result, they will remember more of what they are taught, and will be better equipped to use the application on which you are training them. In turn, they will become more productive sooner, make fewer mistakes, and require less support. To ensure effective knowledge transfer through training simulations, it is necessary to add a business context to recordings, and to provide additional explanations. This book will teach you more than simple mouse-clicks and keystrokes.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Oracle User Productivity Kit 3.5
Credits
About the author
Acknowledgment
About the reviewer
Preface
Object Types

Defining a new object type


Appendix B, Object Types provides a list of all of the Object Types recognized by UPK, and the Template Text that is generated for each of them. Although you can customize the Template Text for any given object as described earlier in this chapter, in some cases it may be easier to just define your own Object Type. UPK will not "capture" this Object Type during the recording, but developers will be able to select it from the Object type field in the Action Properties pane (see Chapter 4, Editing a Topic).

We will examine how to do this by way of a real-life example. In SAP, users can select a row in a table by clicking on a button to the left of the row. This is colloquially referred to as the 'row selection button'. An example of such a table is shown in the following screenshot:

UPK identifies this action as being on the standard Pushbutton Object Type, and generates the following Bubble Text for this:

This is wrong on several levels, but rather than trying to...