The team skills heatmap gives a manager a visual overview of the skills assigned to the users they manage. It displays either a status icon or a skill level indicator for each skill and user combination, allowing the manager to quickly identify strengths and gaps across their team.
To view the skills heatmap for your team, follow these steps:
Navigate to People > My team (/local/pathfinder/my_team.php) to open the team heatmap.
By default, the heatmap displays a status icon for each skill assigned to each user; hovering over a status icon shows its status name.
Use the search field above the user columns to find a specific user.
Use the filters to narrow down the skills displayed.
You can also click on a user within the heatmap to open that user's skill profile, providing more detailed information about their skills and achievements.
Each row in the heatmap represents a skill assigned to at least one user. Skills without child skills are displayed within their group, and skills without a parent group are shown under Ungrouped.

Grouping and searching skills
Skills are grouped by parent skill by default, but can also be grouped by competency roles
Within each group, only skills without child skills are displayed
Clicking a group expands it to display all skills belonging to that group
A white cell containing a dash ("-") indicates that the skill is not assigned to that user.
Reviewing heatmap values
The heatmap displays the following calculated values:
User percentage: The overall percentage of proficient skills for that user
User group percentage: The percentage of proficient skills for that user within a specific group
Group average: The average proficiency percentage across all users within a group
Skill percentage: The percentage of users who are proficient in a given skill

Switch display mode
The heatmap can be switched to By achievement level mode to display achievement levels instead of status icons:
Each skill is represented by a circular level indicator
The indicator is divided into segments based on the number of levels defined for the skill
Filled segments represent the level the user has achieved
The colour of the filled segments reflects the current skill status
Hovering over the indicator displays the skill status
Export the heatmap
You can export the heatmap as a CSV or PDF file by clicking the three-dot icon (
) in the top-right corner and selecting a file format. If filters have been applied to the heatmap, the exported file reflects those filters.
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