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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

Summary


Although it is relatively quick to record a simulation, a simulation can hardly be called "finished" once it is recorded (despite what the Oracle salesperson may tell you). If you are extremely lucky, the simulation will actually work as recorded, but even if it does work, you will want to edit it to improve the overall quality of the simulation.

Fortunately, UPK makes it easy to change just about every aspect of a recording. Screenshots can be changed, Action Areas adjusted, Action Types changed, and just about every conceivable change can be made

Much of this editing work is painstakingly detailed, but if we are to create quality training exercises, then this work is absolutely essential.

Editing takes place in the Topic Editor, which provides the following key components:

  • The Screenshot pane that shows the captured screenshot for the Frame that is currently being edited, and the content and position of the Bubble.

  • The Frame Navigation pane, which shows the path(s) through the recorded...