Manage custom skills

If you didn't import custom skills as a part of your initial setup, you can add it later by following the steps mentioned in this article. You can also delete or export custom skills.

View your custom skills

If custom skills were imported during initial setup, follow these steps to view them:

1. Under Skills, select People Skills Library, and then select Custom skills. You can filter by role and search by skill name.

2. Select View details to see an overview of your imported files, who completed the import, and the import date.

Import custom skills library

Follow these steps to either import your custom skills library for the first time or to reimport with changes to your initial custom import:

1. Under Skills, select the Import custom skills tab.

2. Select Download library template and Download mapping template.

3. Open the template files you downloaded. Follow the steps mentioned in Custom skills files to create your skills library and for mapping files.

4. Paste the file paths for both files into the Skills library file path and Skill mapping file path fields.

5. Select Next to begin file validation. If there's a problem with the file, you'll see an error message at this step.

6. Review your custom skills data.

   • The number of skills from the out-of-the-box library.
   • The number of skills and number of roles/job titles from your custom import.
   • The number of duplicate skills identified in your selection. If you have duplicates, your organization's custom data is prioritized over data from the out-of-the-box library.

7. Acknowledge that importing custom skills will immediately impact your users' experience if skills is turned on.

8. Select Confirm to import.

Export your skills library

You can export the custom skills that you've set up in your skills library.

1. Under Skills, select Export library.

2. Select Export custom skills to export your custom skills imported files.

Delete custom skills

Deleting custom skills immediately removes all of these skills from user experiences and deletes all data associated with those skills.

1. Under Skills, select People Skills Library, and then select Custom skills.

2. Select Delete custom skills.

3. Select Delete to confirm that you want to delete your custom skills.