> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.shiftiq.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards.md). # Standards - [Overview](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/overview.md): Build competency frameworks, tie them to courses and assessments, and drive adaptive competency-based training - [Creating Standards](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/create-standards.md): A good process (or best practice) for building a complex, hierarchical framework in Shift iQ with the Framework Builder tool is to: - [Options for Adding Standards](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/create-standards/add-standard.md): 1. Click on Add New Standard at the top of any Standards search screen. Leave the first dropdown box as One New Standard. - [Manage Frameworks using the Outline View](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/create-standards/manage-standards-outline.md): You can also add and manage frameworks using the Outline view. - [Framework settings and details](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/create-standards/framework-settings.md): To a framework asset’s functional relationships, and/or specific settings and properties for the asset not displayed in Edit Mode, switch to View Mode - [Upload Standards using Markdown](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/create-standards/upload-standards-using-markdown.md): When uploading your Competency Framework using Markdown, the structure of the file must follow a specific heading hierarchy, depending on the number - [Managing and Editing Standards](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/edit-standards.md): Manage existing standards: numbering, ordering, translations, occupations, and type changes - [Manually enter alternate language text](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/edit-standards/alternate-language.md): Contact your system administrator to set the secondary languages available for translation. - [Numbering a Single Standard](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/edit-standards/number-single-standard.md): Add a numbering system to your Standards for easy reference. The numbers you see in the Standard Outline view are Codes. - [Re-order in the Outline view](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/edit-standards/re-order-in-outline-view.md): Open the Framework you wish to work with in Outline view. Choose the Edit tab and select the Standard for which you wish to re-order the child Standards - [Searching Standards](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/edit-standards/searching-standards.md): From the Admin Home page select the Standards Toolkit - [Bulk update numbering](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/edit-standards/bulk-update-numbering.md): You can update multiple codes quickly and easily by using the Classify function. - [Delete in Outline view](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/edit-standards/delete-in-outline-view.md): Delete a standard from the Outline view in Edit mode - [Reorder within a Standard](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/edit-standards/reorder-within-standard.md): Edit the Standard for which you wish to re-order the child Standards. - [Use Google Translate to enter alternate language text](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/edit-standards/use-google-translate.md): Step 1 Click the globe icon in the top right corner to have Google translate the text for you. - [Change Standard Type](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/edit-standards/change-standard-type.md): You can update multiple Standard Types by using the Classify function. From here you can update all the Standard Types for the Framework you have selected. - [Occupations](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/edit-standards/occupations.md): Occupations are just a type of Framework Standard. - [Competencies in a document print in an illogical structure](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/edit-standards/competencies-print.md): The user expects competencies printing in a document to follow the logical structure of the framework, see below. - [Relationships](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/relationships.md): Connect standards to each other through upstream and downstream relationships - [Types of relationships](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/relationships/types-of-relationships.md): Currently there are five types of relationships between Standards - [Add a relationship](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/relationships/add-a-relationship.md): Step 1 Edit the Standard that you want to hold the upstream relationship - [Remove downstream relationships](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/relationships/remove-downstream.md): In the Downstream tab of the Relationships ribbon, select the relationships you want to remove and click the Delete icon. - [Remove upstream relationships](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/relationships/remove-upstream.md): Step 1 Edit the downstream Standard you want to remove from it’s parent - [Creating and Editing Documents](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/documents.md): Publish, translate, print, and analyze standards documents - [Publishing Documents on the Portal](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/documents/publish-document.md): Publish Documents to the Portal through the Web Sites module. We recommend you make a Folder to group your Documents on the portal. - [Translation Tips](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/documents/translation-tips.md): Translate the content of each element in the document using the translation feature in the Content panel. - [Printing and Downloading](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/documents/printing-and-downloading.md): Download your document to Microsoft Word. - [Working in the Administrator View](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/documents/administrator-view.md): Documents are created to group and print Standards into various useful outputs - [Publishing Document Analysis Tools on the Portal](https://docs.shiftiq.com/help/standards/documents/document-analysis.md): Publish Documents to the Portal through the Web Sites module. We recommend you make a Folder to group your Documents on the portal. --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. 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