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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

Chapter 12. Configuring UPK

In this chapter, we will look at some things you can do to make UPK better meet your requirements. These things are not for the faint-hearted, as they involve digging into the bowels of UPK and tinkering with the delivered formats. However, as we will see in this chapter, a little effort can make some big improvements for your users, and that should always be the benchmark on whether or not something is worth doing.

In this chapter, you will learn how to:

  • Change the existing Template Text

  • Replace the default images and icons with your own ones

  • Define a new object type

  • Define a new output document format

Configuring Template Text

The text that appears (by default) in a Bubble is controlled by the Template Text. In many cases the Template Texts will be adequate for your purposes. However, if you want to better match your in-house styles, or simply don't like the default texts, then you can change the default texts by configuring the Template Text.

All of the Template Text...