Procedure: Editing an Absence from Research

Introduction

• Existing Absence from Research entries may be edited / updated if required.  

• Absence from Research entries may be manually sorted into a logical order which will be used when generating CVs and displaying on websites.

• Each Absence from Research 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 Absence from Research sub-category.

3. The Researcher Profiles – Absence from Research page opens displaying the Absence from Research listings.

Editing an absence from research entry

• Click Edit next to the Absence from Research entry you wish to edit.  

4. The Edit an Absence from Research dialog box appears displaying the fields and their entries, edit as applicable.

• In the Date From field:

• Select the month from the Month drop-down list field.

• Select the year from the Year drop-down list field.

• In the Date To field:

• Select the month from the Month drop-down list field.

• Select the year from the Year drop-down list field.

• Edit the reason for this absence in the Reason field.

• Edit the keywords, separated by space, comma or semicolon, in the Keywords field.

Saving an edited research funding narrative entry

• Click Save & Close.

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

5. The Researcher Profiles – Research Funding page reopens.

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