Accomplishing Common Reporting Tasks with Plateau Report Designer (CSV Aggregate Fields) – Part 5

In this series of posts I will examine common issues that can be addressed through the Plateau Report Designer (PRD) custom reporting tool for the Successfactors Learning Management System (LMS.)  The reporting task addressed in this post will be extending the last post’s solution for reporting on catalogs associated with items.  You can download the report import file […]

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LMS Landing Page: Designing the Student’s Experience

The landing page is more than often the first experience a user has with the LMS. It is important that the page is not only easy and intuitive for the user, but also sparks in them a desire to go out and engage in the learning that is available to them. It needs to be […]

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Using Commerce within SAP SuccessFactors LMS (Getting Started)

From my experience, although the ‘help text’ does contain a lot of useful information, the commerce side of the SuccessFactors Learning Management System lacks holistic documentation required for fully understanding how all of the commerce features work together. The purpose of this post is to pull all of that information into a single place to […]

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Blog post on using organizations within LMS

Using organizations in the LMS can give administrators a powerful tool to divide their company into learning groups. Learning organizations typically map well to actual organizations within your company structure and can be based on administrative learning groups. For example – you would typically group an organization based on employees that have the same or […]

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Blog post about managing external users in LMS

The use of the LMS system as a standalone instance looks like it’s coming to an end. Almost every implementation of the LMS today includes using BizX – maybe not as the source system of employee data, but at least holding enough to support the learning module. Clients so far have been welcome to this, […]

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Accomplishing Common Reporting Tasks with Plateau Report Designer (Adding Referenced Custom Fields) – Part 4

In this series of posts I will examine common issues that can be addressed through the Plateau Report Designer (PRD) custom reporting tool for the Successfactors Learning Management Sysetm (LMS.)  The reporting task addressed in this post will be extending a previous post’s solution for reporting on Learning History.  The last report extended the Learning History […]

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Accomplishing Common Reporting Tasks with Plateau Report Designer (Adding Non-Referenced Custom Fields) – Part 3

In this series of posts I will examine common issues that can be addressed through the Plateau Report Designer (PRD) custom reporting tool for the Successfactors Learning Management Sysetm (LMS.)  The reporting task addressed in this post will be extending a previous post’s solution for reporting on Learning History.  The last report extended the Learning History […]

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Seting up programs in the LMS

Overview The addition of programs into the LMS within the last few years bridged a gap the LMS had in delivering organized learning. Prior to programs, learning teams used curricula to group courses together to assign to learners. While curricula did serve some benefits, including requirement groups and retraining options, there were still gaps in being […]

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