There are many ways to mark a training complete in KPA EHS such as taking a lesson, uploading a spreadsheet, group trainings, and more. In some cases, you may want a form response to mark a training complete. For example, say you have a “Forklift Operator Evaluation” that is done by a supervisor. The supervisor …
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Sync Your Employee List
It’s easy to manually create and update employee profiles within KPA Flex, but many companies wish to automate this process. For example, you probably have an HR system with employee details like name, employee number, email address, etc. Typically you’ll want to sync this data with KPA Flex weekly, daily, or even several times a …
Integrating API with Third-Party Services
The KPA Flex API make it possible for you to move data between KPA Flex and a third-party system such as an HR system, BI tools, telemetry services, SAP, NetSuite, and more. To be clear, an API is a programming interface that your organization’s IT group would use to connect the two systems. KPA Flex …
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Integrating API with Business Intelligence Tools
Many companies wish to integrate KPA Flex data into their own dashboards or BI tools. KPA Flex makes this possible through the KPA Flex API. https://api.kpaehs.com The API contains documentation on getting connected, making a request, available endpoints, code samples, a sandbox, and more. Using the KPA Flex API, your company can pull JSON or …
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Integrating API with Google Sheets
Companies often wish to import KPA Flex data into their own dashboards or databases. This is made possible through the KPA Flex API. In this example, we’ll share how to automatically sync KPA Flex data into a Google Sheets document. STEP 1) GET A TOKEN STEP 2) WHICH FORM DO YOU WANT? STEP 3) CREATE …
Deep Linking Forms / Pre-Filling Fields
This guide walks through linking to a KPA EHS form from another app or website and pre-setting values on the form when the link is clicked. Linking to a KPA EHS Form You can link to a KPA EHS form by right-clicking the “Fill Out” button and choosing “Copy Link Address”: https://acme.kpaehs.com/forms/responses/new/6512 In some cases, …
How to Open a CSV Spreadsheet in Mac Excel Without Losing Leading Zeros
Excel loves to reformat your data when you open a file. Unfortunately, that means it might remove “leading” zeros when you open a spreadsheet. For example, your employee numbers may start with a few zeros, “0001024”. Excel (trying to be helpful) removes those zeros and now you see “1024”. That’s a bummer if your extra …
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How To Fix The Browser Security Error
Starting in September of 2020, iScout is discontinuing support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in favor of TLS 1.2. These outdated protocols are insecure and are being discontinued by many other groups (such as Microsoft 360 starting in October). NOTE: iScout began showing full screen warnings on every page starting in early August. An email …
Calculation Fields in Forms (Video)
Calculation fields let you use other fields in a formula to derive a new number. For example, say you have a counter field called “quantity” and a numeric field called “price”. You could create a calculation field called “Grand Total” with the formula quantity * price. Overview Here is a brief video overview of the …
Question of the Day (QOD) (Video)
Question of the Day, or QOD, is part of the Customizable Training Package and allows users to quickly and consistently reinforce important information to increase employee engagement. This is a video guide for how to manage QOD.