The Program report tells you who has and hasn’t done their required training and tasks. You configure a group of people and a list of milestones that need to be completed and then can easily see overall progress and a drill-down into the detail of exactly who has completed what. But what if you want to look at the progress of groups of people with different requirements? For example, perhaps warehouse staff are not required to complete the anti-bribery training, or there are advanced and basic versions of a course for different groups. This walkthrough explains three different ways you can configure milestones in scenarios where different people are required to do different things.

Exempt individuals from a step

Exempting individuals from a step is done using the exemptPersonCustomIds property in Advanced Configuration. This contains list of custom ids of people who are exempt from completing this step. Edit the program step in Advanced Configuration and add the property to the step you want to exempt people from.

People who are marked as exempt and have not completed the step will show as exempt and will not count in completion percentages. For example if there are 11 people in the program, 8 have completed and 1 is exempt, the completion percentage will show 80% (8 out of 10).

Exempt groups from a step

More commonly, you might want to exempt whole groups from a step. This is done using the exemptGroupCustomIds property in Advanced Configuration. This contains list of custom ids of groups who are exempt from completing this step. Edit the program step in Advanced Configuration and add the property to the step you want to exempt people from.

When whole groups are marked as exempt, this is indicated on the group drilldown. Additionally, all people in that group who have not completed the milestone as marked as exempt in the same way as if they had been added to the exemptPeopleCustomIds filter.

Different requirements for different groups completing the same milestone

An alternative approach to having different milestones for different groups of people is to have a single milestone with different requirements for each group. This is done by using a step collection (also known as Advanced Milestone in simple configuration). The step collection is configured such that each person is only required to complete 1 step in the collection. People and group filters can then be used to exclude certain people from certain steps within the collection.

For example, the step configuration below is for a milestone where people in the Greater Atlantic Region are required to pass one test and people in the Southeast Region are required to pass a different test. The completeThreshold property is set to 1 because people are only required to complete one of the steps in order to complete the collection.

{
  "type": "collection",
  "name": "Pass the test for your region",
  "steps": [
    {
      "type": "match",
      "name": "Greater Atlantic Test",
      "filter": {
        "activityIds": {
          "ids": [
            "http://example.com/test/greater-atlantic"
          ]
        },
        "groupCustomIds": [
          "Region: Greater Atlantic"
        ],
        "equals": [
          {
            "fieldName": "result.success",
            "values": {
              "ids": [
                "true"
              ]
            },
            "exclude": false
          }
        ]
      },
      "requiredMatchCount": 0
    },
    {
      "type": "match",
      "name": "Southeast Test",
      "filter": {
        "activityIds": {
          "ids": [
            "http://example.com/test/southeast"
          ]
        },
        "groupCustomIds": [
          "Region: Southeast"
        ],
        "equals": [
          {
            "fieldName": "result.success",
            "values": {
              "ids": [
                "true"
              ]
            },
            "exclude": false
          }
        ]
      },
      "requiredMatchCount": 0
    }
  ],
  "ordered": false,
  "completeThreshold": 1
}