Activity Screens & Fields
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Summary Screens
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Overview
When you select a dynamic screen from the main menu of the Activities or Manage Data utilities, a summary screen table displays all the records entered for the user on that screen.
Summary scr...
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Activity Screen Types
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There are two types of screens in which to enter data in Faculty Success: static and dynamic.
Static
Static screens collect data that are fixed and not likely to change, and for which you do not need t...
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Activity Field Types
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The following table shows the available field types in Faculty Success. You can add Help Buttons, which open a pop-up window with content written by your institution, to any field. We cannot add Help B...
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Configuration Report
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In your day-to-day work with Faculty Success, it is helpful to have materials to reference how your data collection instrument is currently configured. The Configuration Report is a one-stop-shop for t...
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Data Access Settings, Descriptors and Restrictions
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There are a number of attributes we can place on screens, fields and sometimes data. This article will outline the following settings:
Access: Settings which apply to the screen, field, or data leve...
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Date Fields
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Overview
Date fields can be comprised of a combination of month, day, term, or year elements. Collecting dates is crucial to accurately reporting records on reports. For this reason, by default we requ...
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Checkboxes and Drop Down Lists
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Checkbox and drop-down list fields use a set list of options. This helps with data consistency across users if you need to be able to use the response to a given field to group or sort records in repo...
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Dynamic Sub-Answers (DSA)
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A dynamic sub-answer (DSA) is a record within a record. An example in Faculty Success is the Department DSA on the Yearly Data screen, which enables a user to associate a user with multiple department...
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Store File Fields
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Files can be associated with records in Faculty Success. This enables your campus to report activity data and supporting documentation together to provide a more complete picture of the activities in w...
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User Reference
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A user reference field is a search box of your instrument's user accounts that are tracking activities. User reference fields are used to associate records with user accounts. Records with which a use...
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Record Reference Fields
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Record reference fields allow a user to associate one record in Faculty Success with another. For example, when entering a new record for an award or honor, a record reference field would allow the use...
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Identifying the Record Owner for a Locked Activity
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Many user's at your institution will collaborate on the same scholarly activity and enter this information into Faculty Success. When a collaborator enters this information, they have the option to li...
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Resolving Duplicates with Compare and Merge
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With multiple ways to add activity records to the system, including several that can create multiple records at once - like Publication Imports and CV Imports - users need a way to quickly resolve dupl...
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Handling Alternative Names
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A user only has one account name in Faculty Success. This is desirable for many reasons, but makes it difficult to accurately represent contributors to publications, grants, etc. if a person's name cha...