Procedure: Editing Invitations to Conferences

Introduction

Existing Invitation to Conferences entries may be edited or updated if required.  

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

Each Invitation to Conferences 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 Invitations to Conferences sub-category.

3. The Researcher Profiles – Invitations to Conferences page opens displaying the Invitations to Conferences listing.

Editing an invitation to a conference

• Click Edit next to the Invitations to Conferences entry you wish to edit.

4. The Edit an Invitation to Conference dialog box appears.

• Edit the conference title in the Title field.

• Edit the conference location in the Location field.

• Edit the conference date or date in the Date/s field.

• Select the capacity in which you were invited from the Invited as drop-down list field.

• Edit the conference website address in the Conference URL field.

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

Saving the edited invitation to a conference

• Click Save & Close.

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

5. The Researcher Profiles – Invitations to Conferences page reopens.

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

See also: Overview: Recognition category and Overview: Invitations to Conferences.