Associate a category with a skill
You can associate a custom category with a custom skill while importing skills in bulk using the template.
In this topic, we'll only focus on the steps to associate a category with skills with the help of an example. For complete steps to import skills, see Import skills in bulk using a template.
To associate a category with a skill:
- Click Add skills.
- Click Upload from template.
- Click Download template.
- Select 'English' from the Select languages dropdown list.
- Select Label, External ID, Status, and Categories checkboxes.
- Select 2 from Category level. This indicates that the skills will be added to category level 2 in the category hierarchy.
- Click Confirm. The template is downloaded.
- Open the template in a spreadsheet editor and populate the columns. Here's a
duly-filled sample spreadsheet based on the data fields you selected in the
above steps.In this example, the columns indicate the following:
- Label-en: Skill label in English language
- Category ID (Level 1): ID for the level 1 category
- Category Label (Level 1): Label for the level 1 category. In this case 'Science'.
- Category ID (Level 2): ID for the level 2 category
- Category Label (Level 2): Label for the level 2 category. In this case 'Biology'.
- External ID: The external ID associated with a skill
- Status: The status of the skill
- Click Browse or drag-and-drop the populated file to the browse area.
- Select a category type say 'Cat type' from the Category type dropdown list. This category type is associated as the top-level category for your category hierarchy.
- Click Upload Skills.
- To view the uploaded skills, click Libraries > Skills.
- Enable the Show categories toggle.
- Select 'Cat type' from the category type dropdown list in the left panel. The skills you imported are displayed under the 'Science > Biology' category you associated them with.