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Hi Dirk,
Can you please help me to understand below concepts ?
1. Who will create organizational units ? and how its created ?
2. When do we use “Update Cache Dependency” ?
Organizational Units are used just to organize Users in your SAP Enable Now instance. If Users are defined via (automatic) import the OU hierarchy may be created automatically to match your organization in the iDP. Otherwise they are really just for ‘convenience’ in SEN, and how you use them (or not ) is entirely up to you. There’s a few things you can do with OUs, but you don’t NEED to use them.
Every object has a list of things it is ‘dependent’ on (like style resources, etc.). A cache is kept of these things so they don’t need to be (re)determined every time you access an object. Menu option Tools > Update Dependency Cache will update this cache with the latest dependency information for the objects in your Workarea. You shouldn’t really ever need to do this as the dependencies will be (re-)determined when you create or change an object anyway. Maybe if you import a bunch of (older) stuff from another Workarea you might want to do it. But probably nothing’s going to break if you don’t.
Hi Dirk. I have Master Author permissions. In Producer, I selected a Sim template, clicked ‘start editing’, clicked ‘edit’, then went to Tools > Settings > Macro Initialization. The Settings fields and OK button are inactive. I’d like to change ‘Use Text From’ to ‘Demo Mode’ or change ‘Display Duration’ to ‘6’ in the Demo Bubble settings area. I’ve read the SAP Customization guide, but still no luck.
Hey, Len. Replied over in the Community. That should fix it.
And I have got one more question Dirk.
How to disable the navigation bar (Previous) for the first slide of the simulation ?
For a Simulation? For a Screen? You can’t. All you can do is hide the entire Progress Bar. If it is just the first Step, and you are using a Book Page for this, you can disable Book Page navigation in the Book Page itself, but that’s about it.
There are two navigation bars. Previous and Next. In trainer view, the first slide should not contain previous navigation bar and should only contain Next. I need to do this for simulation. Is it possible ?
Hi Dirk,
I have imported few simulations to my Producer. It is containing TTS functionality. How to totally remove Text-To-Speech audio from the slides ?
I don’t think there’s a way to do it in bulk (i.e. for all simulations at the same time), but you can remove the audio from within the Project Editor for a single simulation as follows:
1. Select ALL Steps (click on one Step then CTRL+A).
2. Right-click on any selected Step and select Delete Audio
HOWEVER: Check this carefully. I was testing it just now, and doing anything with audio is deleting a whole bunch of other things from the simulation (and only when I save it). So take a copy of a simulation and try with that first, before you commit to changing them all. (It may just be some recent changes in my demo system as I’ve used this functionality before OK.)
Hello, I am using an assessment within an enable now WBT and wish to display different screens depending on whether the learner has passed or failed the assessment. How can this be done?
I don’t think there’s a way to do that. The Assessment is a separate Learning Object (you have it as a Quiz, right?), and there’s no communication between objects. The best you could do is set your Assignment up so that they can only complete the learning objects in the sequence shown, and then they wouldn’t be able to get to the next object until they have completed the Quiz… (If you are talking about ‘knowledge check’ Questions within a Book, that’s another thing…)
Hi Dirk,
Whatever I create in Producer, those are not appearing in root folder of Manager. Instead, its in Unsorted. Can you please tell me how to move contents from Unsorted to Root folder ?
1. Make sure you have Root synchronized in Producer.
2. Make sure the Group you want your content created in is checked out for editing and selected before you create the content object.
3. To move an object from Unsorted to somewhere else, make sure the destination Group is checked out for editing and then just drag/drop the objects onto it.
Hi Dirk,
Is it possible to get the duration of a simulation demo ?
One of my customer wants to add this info for the learners.
Thanks in advance.
There’s a consultant script that will do that, but it’s not on general availability. Otherwise you could just generate a video and see how long that lasts…
Thanks for your feedback 🙂
I just got a new question from my customer, which is not obvious in the documentations : can we use & configure Web Assistant on Fiori Hub or is it necessarily on S/4 HANA with Fiori Embedded ?
Not sure; I don’t know too much about Fiori Hub. In theory it works with any ‘native Fiori’ system (not just S/4HANA) – including Launchpad, but whether context capture is successful depends on how it’s been built. Best thing to do is try it. If you can define a Fiori catalog or Communication System for it then you can probably just follow the instructions in the Integration Guide. But even if you can’t use ‘native’ (built-in) Web Assistant you can probably use the 3rd Party Web Assistant capabilities to provide it.
Can I change the sequence of groups in my workarea? If yes, how? I tried dragging it, but drag option is not working on groups.
Yes, just drag-and-drop. The trick is that you need to Start Editing on both the source Group and the Destination Group (or the single Group that you’re moving objects within). That’s probably what you’re missing. Or just wait until mid-November, because a change is coming in the 20/11 release whereby Groups will automatically be checked out when you move things within/between them.
Hi Dirk,
I have to launch my courses on Enable Now itself and I have a list of learners. Do I need to add all of them in Enable Now and give them Learners permission to view published content? Or is there a way to share published content without adding them as Learners?
They need to be defined as Learners. You could publish your content to a Web Server outside of SAP Enable Now so they could consume it from there, but you’d lose tracking, etc… If you keep it within SAP Enable Now you’ll also need to create an Assignment to assign the courses to the users (or roles / the Learner role) – assuming you want them to access them via the Learner View (and have full tracking).
Thanks Dirk.
My customer wants to use the Web Assistant with SAP SuccessFactors. The customer wants to create a help tile for the English and German speaking users. The functions “What’s new” and “Learning Center” are disabled. Therefore, the German and English help tile is the only help in the Web Assistant currently.
But this means that if e.g. a Spanish speaking user clicks on the question mark at SAP SuccessFactors, the Web Assistant panel is empty. Can I disable the Web Assistant for a group of users so that the panel is not empty?
Thank you and best regards
Verena
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(Copied from my reply on the SAP Enable Now Community):
Verena:
There are two easy things you can do. First, you can set the parameter ​noHelpMode=hidebutton. That will prevent an empty carousel from being displayed. (I’d also recommend not having readCatalogue=false in this case – else the button will be displayed when they access the screen, then disappear when they click on it).
The other thing you can do is use fallback languages. See ​globalLanguageFallback and ​languageFallback so if content isn’t available in the user’s language, it is displayed in another. (Usually English is the fallback language for everything anyway…) At least they would see something, then…
Or, look into translating the content – ​Translation Hub is an option; I think it will work for Web Assistant projects (although I’ve only tried with simulations and Book Pages…).
HTH, Dirk