Applicable Product:

• PeopleFluent Learning

Applicable Release:

• V22
• V23

Summary:

As a course administrator you can create your own custom module attributes to help you categorize and
organize your learning modules. For example, you could create two module attributes, one to specify whether a course requires personal protective equipment (PPE), and another to specify what items of PPE are required.

Module attributes can be any of the following data types, which determine what type of values can be assigned to them:

• Free text (a single line of text up to 255 characters)
• Text area (multiple lines of text)
• Drop-down (select the value from a list)
• Numeric (In PeopleFluent Learning versions up to and including 21.04, fractional numbers less than 1 must start with a zero; for example, 0.75, not .75).
• Check box
• Date (a calendar tool to select a date)

You can assign values to module attributes that you have read-only access permission for when you configure learning modules in the Catalog Editor.

When you configure a module attribute you can choose where in the LMS its value can be viewed (for example, in the Course Details page).

In addition to module attributes, you can also configure session attributes, which apply only to learning module sessions. Instructors can use session attributes to filter courses and sessions in the Teach menu pages.

To configure module attributes, your user role must have unrestricted access to the Catalog Configuration
feature in System Roles (Catalog Manager Features > Catalog Configuration).

To configure module attributes, go to Manage Center > Learning > Module Attribute Categories.

From the Module Attribute Categories page you can create, edit and delete module attributes, and configure their access permissions. You can include module attributes in reports built with the Report Wizard if you have at least read-only permission for them.

Create a Module Attribute

Catalog administrators can create custom module attributes to help you categorize and organize learning
modules. If you have read-only access permission for a module attribute, it is included in the Module Properties page in the Catalog Editor, where you can assign a value to it.

To create a module attribute

1. Go to Manage Center > Learning > Module Attribute Categories. The Module Attributes page opens, showing existing module attributes.
2. Click + Create New Module Attribute. The Create Module Attribute page opens.
3. Enter a unique code for the attribute.
4. Enter a name of the attribute. For multi-language systems you can enter the label key that will be used to look up the localized name in the user's preferred language.
5. Select the type of data represented by the attribute.
6. For numeric attributes, select the check box if you want to show the sum of the values when printing or reporting the attribute.
7. Select the check boxes of the areas in the LMS where you want to use the attribute.
8. Click Save. The attribute is added to the list in the Module Attributes page.

Edit a Module Attribute

Catalog administrators can edit a module attribute to:

• Update its access permissions
• Change its code and display name
• Change the areas it can be used in the LMS
• Add, edit or remove the options available for drop-down list attributes

There are restrictions on changing the attribute's type. For more information, see Allowed Transitions Between Dynamic Attribute Types.

To edit a module attribute

1. Go to Manage Center > Learning > Module Attribute Categories. The Module Attributes page opens, showing existing module attributes.
2. To edit an attribute's permissions only, select Permissions from its action menu. The Permissions
   Selector opens in a new window.
3. To edit an attribute's properties and, optionally, its permissions, select Edit from its action menu. The Edit Module Attribute page opens.
4. Update the attribute's properties as required.
5. To add an option to a drop-down list attribute, click Add New Option. The Create Module Attribute
   Value page opens.
6. To edit or delete an option for a drop-down list attribute, click the name of the option. The Edit Module Attribute Value page opens where you can edit or delete it.
7. Optionally, click Permissions to edit the attribute's permissions.
8. Click Save.

Attribute Option Values

You can configure the options for drop-down list attributes.

Table: Attribute option fields

Allowed Transitions Between Dynamic Attribute Types

Table: Allowed transitions between dynamic attribute types