You can update both individual objectives and objectives in the Objectives Library.
You can update objectives in the Objectives Library at any time, regardless of whether the application has allocated them to workers automatically. Changes that you make to objectives in the Objectives Library do not affect objectives already copied to personal scorecards, as there is no link between the two versions of the objective.
For example, if you change the validity dates of an objective in the Objectives Library, the validity dates of the same objective in existing personal scorecards are unaffected. Similarly, if you delete an objective from the Objectives Library or change its eligibility criteria, it remains in existing personal scorecards.
If you create a new objective with eligibility criteria in the Objectives Library after publishing your Performance Management Plan (PMP), the application allocates the objective automatically to eligible workers if you republish the PMP.
Individual objectives are outside the Objectives Library and apply to individual workers. During an objective-setting period, you can update these objectives freely. Outside objective-setting periods, you can update individual objectives only if permitted. (The HR Professional must select Allow Changes Outside This Period in the PMP to allow you to update objectives outside objective-setting periods.) In this case, objective-setting tasks in worker and manager task lists remain enabled outside objective-setting periods.
Tracking information (such as % Complete and Achievement Date) is not part of an objective's definition. You can update tracking information throughout the performance-management period.
See: Tracking Objectives