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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

Removing the ability to skip in Try It! mode


As discussed in Chapter 10, the UPK Player allows trainees to just press the Enter key to skip through the screens when playing a simulation in Try It! mode. For reasons discussed in that chapter, it is recommended that this option is disabled. Unfortunately, out of the box, it is not possible to disable this option without completely disabling the ability to change any user preferences. However, it is possible to remove this option by configuring the Player deployment package. In this section, we will do exactly this.

To remove the ability of users to enable skipping, carry out the following steps:

  1. 1. In the Library, open the following folder: System/Publishing/Styles/User Productivity Kit (or the folder that contains your own customized deployment packages).

  2. 2. Double-click on the Player package, to open it in the Package Editor.

  3. 3. Locate the file prefmain.html. Copy this file to your local workstation, and open it in your preferred HTML editor...