Defining and maintaining development activity categories

Use this procedure to define development activity categories. Development activity categories provide another way to classify development activities. Users can define any classifications that suit their purpose. A common example would be to classify development activities by strategic objectives such as professional development, retraining due to job change, and so on.

  1. Select Development Planning > Set Up > Activity Components > Categories.
  2. Click Create.
  3. Specify this information:
    Effective Date

    Required. Specify the effective date.

    Category

    Required. Specify the name of the development activity category.

    Description

    Specify the description of the development activity category. If you leave this field blank, the development activity category name defaults.

    Active

    Select this check box to make the development activity category active. Inactive development activity categories do not appear in lists.

  4. Click Save.
    Maintaining development activity categories:

    • To update a development activity category, open the development activity category, update any of the fields, select an effective date, and save.

    • To delete a development activity category, open the development activity category, specify an effective date, click Delete, and click Yes to confirm.