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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

Capturing actions


It is important to understand that (with manual recording) UPK will only capture the last single action that you performed. For example, it can capture a single mouse-click, a single key-press, or a single text entry. So if you enter text in Field A, then enter text in Field B, and then press Prt Scr, your screenshot will show both Field A and Field B filled in, but the only action captured will be the entry of text into Field B (because this is the last action that you performed before pressing Prt Scr). If you then played back this recording, text would suddenly appear in Field A, without warning, when you are asked to enter the string in Field B.

For each action, UPK will capture the following things:

  • The object against which the action was performed

  • The action that was performed

  • For text entry actions, the text that was entered

That's all. Nothing else. So it's not really that clever, after all! What is clever is the way that it uses this information, but we'll look at...