The Currently assigned user report utilises the report builder tool in Totara, allowing you to customise the report to best suit your needs. It shows you each skill assignment in the system, allowing you to look at skill assignments in detail. For each skill assignment you can see:
Who the skill was assigned to (user's full name)
Which skill was assigned (skill name)
How it was assigned (assignment type e.g. via individual assignment, via group assignment such as by membership to a particular audience or organisation)
Who assigned it and when
This report details every single assignment to a skill, whereas the mini-report you see on the Skill assignment page only shows the Skill assignment groups, rather than showing the impact on each user (unless the assignment type was to an individual). This also means that you can see duplicate assignments, if someone has been assigned to the same skill multiple times through different methods (for example once via their position and then again via their membership of a particular audience).
To view the Currently assigned users embedded report users need to have the totara/competencey:manage_assignments (or totara/competencey:view_assignments) and moodle/user:viewdetails capabilities.
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