Applicable Product:

• PeopleFluent Learning

Applicable Release:

• V22
• V23

Summary:

As a course administrator you can create your own custom session attributes to help you categorize and
organize classroom-based training sessions.

Session 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 session attributes that you have read-only access permission for when you configure learning module sessions in the Catalog Editor.

Instructors can use session attributes to filter courses and sessions in the Teach menu pages.

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

To configure session attributes, go to Manage Center > Learning > Session Attribute Categories.

From the Session Attribute Categories page you can create, edit and delete session attributes, and configure their access permissions.

Create a Session Attribute

Catalog administrators can create custom session attributes to help categorize and organize classroom-based training sessions. If you have read-only access permission for a session attribute, it is included in the Edit Session Properties page in the Catalog Editor, where you can assign a value to it.

To create a session attribute

1. Go to Manage Center > Learning > Session Attribute Categories. The Session Attributes page
   opens, showing existing session attributes.
2. Click + Create Session Attribute. The Create Session 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 Mandatory check box if course administrators must enter or select a value for the attribute in the Catalog Editor > Edit Session Properties page.
8. Select the check boxes of the Teach menu areas in the LMS where you want to use the attribute. Select the Teach check box to include the attribute as a column in the list of sessions in Active Sessions and Session Administration. Select the Teach Session Administration Filter check box to include the attribute as a filter in Session Administration.
9. Click Save. The attribute is added to the list in the Session Attributes page.

Edit a Session Attribute

Catalog administrators can edit a session attribute to:

1. Update its access permissions
2. Change its code and display name
3. Change the areas it can be used in the LMS
4. 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 session attribute

1. Go to Manage Center > Learning > Session Attribute Categories. The Session Attributes page
   opens, showing existing session 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 Session 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 Session 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
   Session Attribute Value page opens where you can edit or delete it.
7. Optionally, click Permissions to edit the attribute's permissions.
8. Click Save.