External Course Catalog Connection (Infotype 5042) 

Definition

Infotype used for external courses and external catalog connection.

Use

The infotype enables:

·        External course catalog connection

You can set up a connection to an external training provider to enable access to an external course (for example, external WBT). You must know the external course ID in the external training provider’s system. In Training Management, you enter the course ID listed in the external course catalog in this infotype. Refer to the course catalog of the external training provider for the course ID. The course ID is case-sensitive.

You assign the actual communication data (for the external training provider connection) to an object of object type U(company) in the IMG activity Create Company in the External Training Provider infotype (5043).

To set up the external course catalog connection, in Customizing for SAP Learning Solution, choose Training Management ® Course Preparation ® Training Provider ® External Training Provider ® Specify External Training Provider.

·        Language for external courses with the delivery methods External WBT and External Online Test

You select the language in which the external course should be held, depending on the delivery method. If you select no language, the course will be held in the logon language.

·        Automatic synchronization of external learning progress

With this indicator, you specify whether external progress is updated automatically or manually to the Training Management system of SAP Learning Solution when an external course (e.g. with delivery method: external WBT) is called. The indicator can have the following values:

¡        If the indicator is blank, the system takes the value stored in Customizing for SAP Learning Solution when synchronizing external progress. Choose Training Management ® Course Preparation ® Training Provider ® External Training provider ® Automatically Synchronize External Learning Progress.

¡        If the switch is 0 (no automatic synchronization), external progress is not synchronized with the system automatically, but manually using the report Manual/Mass Progress Synchronization (RHWSTRACKING_LSO).

¡        The value X means that when an external course is launched, the learner’s progress made externally is automatically written to the Training Management system of SAP Learning Solution.

Structure

You can assign the following to each course type:

·        Assign an ID to the External Courses ID (EXTID). This ID identifies the external course in the external training provider’s system.

·        Specify the training language for external courses.

·        Activate automatic synchronization of learning progress data. The values of the switch can be as follows:

Switch for automatic synchronization of external progress

Value	Description
Blank	Undetermined
0	No automatic synchronization
1	Automatic synchronization

In the case of the delivery methods external classroom training and virtual classroom training, this assignment is made for the course itself, not the course type.