Procedure: Adding a Public Appointment

Introduction

The Public Appointments sub-category provides the facility to list various public appointment positions that one may have held.

Public Appointments entries are listed by Appointment and Year/s.

Each Public Appointment entry requires a minimum of the Description field to be completed. There is no restriction on the total number of entries you may add.

Procedure

1. Log in to the UCT Research Portal website with your UCT network credentials.

2. In the Researcher Profiles – Home page, click Public Appointments sub-category.

3. The Researcher Profiles – Public Appointments page opens.

Adding a public appointment

• Click Add New under Public Appointments.    

4. The Add a Public Appointment dialog box appears.

• Enter the year or years in the Year/s field.

• Enter the description in the Description field.

• If this falls into the category of engaged scholarship, ensure that the Engaged Scholarship check box is selected.

Saving and adding another public appointment, if applicable

• If you want to add another public appointment, click Save & Add Another and repeat from Adding a public appointment.

• Click Save & Close.

• The following message displays briefly: “Information was successfully saved.”

5. The Researcher Profiles – Public Appointments page reopens.

6. If necessary, click up / down arrows under Change order to sort the Public Appointments listing by priority.

See also: Overview: Recognition category and Overview: Public Appointments.