External Training - Ease of use and best practices?

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External Training - Ease of use?

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Hi there!  We're looking at possibly turning on the external training functionality.  We are in the Restaurant/Retail industry and need to have a way to track (and report) external Food Handler certifications (currently tracked manually via spreadsheet).  I've tried testing the External Training object but have a few questions:

 

1. Is there a way to pre-populate some of the data (e.g. name of training, location, description, etc.) when the user is completing the external training form?  I couldn't find a way and concerned that we will have data integrity issues with multiple employees entering data in a different formats.