Procedure: Editing a Public Appointment

Introduction

Existing Public Appointment entries may be edited / updated if required.  

Public Appointment entries may be manually sorted into a logical order which will be used when generating CVs and displaying on websites.

Each Public Appointment entry on this page will be listed in a new row and will be displayed alternately in a blue / black font colour.  This formatting is only used within the Researcher Profile context and purely for ease of visual display of multiple entries.

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 displaying the Public Appointments listing.

Editing a public appointment

• Click Edit next to the Public Appointments entry you wish to edit.

4. The Edit a Public Appointment dialog box appears.

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

• Edit the description name in the Description field.

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

Saving the edited public appointment

• Click Save & Close.

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

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.