> Defining Qualifications

Define qualifications to establish a set of occupational standards and/or required job-related training for personnel, tasks, trades, and/or work order activities. After defining a qualification, associate the qualification with personnel, tasks, trades, and/or work order activities to establish your criteria for qualification enforcement of work activities. Qualification enforcement is determined by the WOQUAL installation parameter.

   Qualifications are linked to the QUAL entity, for which you must define qualification codes as user codes on the Entities form (BNENTS).

If you are using qualification enforcement, you can only assign/schedule an employee who has the necessary qualification(s) to perform the work for which a qualification is required. If a qualification is associated with a trade, task, or work order activity, the employee must have that qualification on their personnel record. Employee qualifications are active if the employee has completed the necessary training course/requirements for the qualification and the qualification duration has not expired.

You can also define qualifications as training records to create a historical record of job-related training employees receive that you do not need to be tracked for qualification enforcement.

Follow these steps to define qualifications.

  1. Open the Qualifications form (WNQUAL).

  2. Qualification—Enter a unique code identifying the qualification.

  3. Organization—Click to select the organization to which the qualification belongs if you use multi-organization security.

  4. Class—Click to select the class of the qualification. The classes shown belong to the QUAL entity.

  5. Active—Select to indicate whether the qualification is active.

   If you unselect Active for a qualification, then you can no longer associate the qualification with any subsequent personnel, tasks, trades, and/or work order activities. However, if the deactivated qualification is already associated with any personnel, tasks, trades, and/or work order activities, the qualification will still be required for any existing personnel, tasks, trades, and/or work order activities.

   You can also select and unselect Active to temporarily activate and deactivate a qualification as necessary.

  1. Training record—Select to indicate whether the qualification is associated with a training record. By defining a qualification as a training record, Datastream 7i does not track the qualification for qualification enforcement, and the qualification cannot be associated with tasks, trades, and/or work order activities.