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Derived skills let you adapt read-only Document skills to your needs by customizing fields, rules, and recognition settings while staying linked to a base skill. Derived skills are fully editable and inherit all the fields and rules from their base skill. When the base skill gets a new version, you can update the derived skill to the new version while keeping your customizations.
You can create a derived skill from any read-only Document skill (Vantage built-ins and third-party skills). For other read-only skill types — Classification, OCR, or Process — duplicate the skill instead. See Duplicate a skill.
For information on how to work with derived skills in Advanced Designer, see Derived skills.

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Create a derived skill

You can create a derived skill from any read-only Document skill in the Skill Catalog. When you create at least one derived skill from a read-only skill, that skill becomes the base skill for its derived skills. To create a derived skill, do one of the following:
  • Select a skill from the list and click the Create and Edit Derived Skill button.
  • Click the name of a skill in the list and, in the dialog box that opens, click Create and Edit Derived Skill.
In a derived skill, you can customize the following:
When a new version of the base skill becomes available, update the derived skill to inherit the new version while keeping your customizations.