FPS Help Guide - Table of Contents

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The Faculty Profile System (FPS) provides:

Individuals and Organizations easy access to innovation, knowledge, technologies and know-how.
Industry access to ideas, talent, and geographic proximity to skilled labor pools and R&D facilities.
An infrastructure of opportunities for members to get to know one another, share ideas, and learn and develop trust with increased efficiency.

Enhancing our Economy:

The Faculty Profile System (FPS) is a response to the Texas Industry and Technology clusters in order to facilitate problem solving, collaboration, and technology transfer among research experts and organizations in Academia, Industry and Government. The goal of FPS is to become a synergistic marketplace to transfer knowledge, provide experts to solve problems, and expand innovation capacity in order to build new or expand existing markets, provide job growth and develop wealth.

Academia’s new role:

FPS is a method to transform the culture of Academia to becoming sellers and marketers of research and ideas. The role of academia is catalyzing the transfer of knowledge and creating an environment for the rapid deployment of that knowledge by speeding the movement of ideas, innovation and information throughout the marketplace and the economy .Universities are the nation’s greatest “untapped” resources for spurring economic growth!

FPS hosts the following profiles: (click on the profile type to learn more about it)

Faculty Profiles
Graduate Student Profiles
Research Center Profiles*
Technology/Intellectual Property Profiles*
Equipment Profiles*
Facility Profiles*
Research Labs/Group Profiles*

All UNT Employees can login into Faculty Profile System (FPS) using their UNT EUID and password. The Login section is located at the top-right corner of the Home screen as shown below.

Type in your EUID and password in the space provided and press enter or click on the arrow to Login.
Your EUID is the computer username that you use to login to any computer on campus. If you are not sure what your EUID is, contact helpdesk at 940- 565-2324 or helpdesk@unt.edu.

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For more information, visit: UNT Helpdesk

FIRST LOGIN

For first time users an Account Information Screen is presented (shown below).

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Complete the information and press Enter or Submit and Proceed to My Profiles. Details on the Account Information can be changed in the 'Contact Information' anytime

MY PROFILES

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Profiles in My profiles fall under two broad categories:

YOUR PROFILES
EDITOR FOR *

"Your Profiles" lists profiles for which you are the owner. These profiles can only be created by you and edited by you.
Editors for these profiles can be assigned using the Toolbox.

"Editor For" lists all profiles for which you have been assigned an editor.

If your profile is not in the system, you would have the option to create your faculty and other profiles. View Create New Profile for more information.

* 'Editor for' option is currently unavailable

CREATE NEW PROFILE

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You can create the following profiles as shown above:

Faculty Profiles
This option will be provided only if your Faculty Profile does not exist - View My Profiles for more information
Graduate Student Profiles
Equipment Profiles*
Lab & Group Profiles*
Research Center Profiles*
Facility Profiles*
Technology Profiles*

UNDERSTANDING YOUR PROFILE LAYOUT

Each profile has different modes it can be worked on. These options are available only if a user is logged in and is the owner/editor for the profile.

Edit Mode: Edit Mode takes you to the Editing view of your profile. All Hidden Content is also visible in the mode. Any content on the page can be added,edited or updated using this mode. See the list of buttons below to learn more about how to edit the content. View Screenshot
View Mode: This is a preview mode of how a visitor will see your profile. Any content that has been made hidden is not displayed here. Also only sections with content are visible to the visitor. View Screenshot
Toolbox: Toolbox allows to change the settings for your profile. Click on the links below to know more about Toolbox.
Toolbox - Profile Settings
Toolbox - Disciplines
Toolbox - Biosketches and Vitas

COMMONLY USED BUTTONS

Edit
This allows for editing content of any section/information/details.
To use this feature click on the edit button and it would direct you to the editable page or provide editable fields
Save
This allows to save your current changes. Once all changes are done, click this icon to save the changes and view them.
Cancel
If you are in the middle of editing any section and wish to undo or cancel your changes please use the cancel button.
Please remember once any changes are saved they cannot be cancelled. Cancel can be used only while you are editing.
Add
This button can be used to Add more entries to any section (when applicable). It is also used to add new sections through toolbox
On clicking this icon, one or more blank fields are presented to enter new content. Use the save button to add the new fields once done.
Delete
This button deletes the selected row or the entire section.
Once clicked it asks for your confirmation. You can cancel the action by saying No. If you pick yes, then the data is permanently deleted
Add Row
You would come across this button when you are adding members to centers or equipments to your profile.
This button allows you to add a row of data to your selection
Delete Row
You would come across this button when you are editing member/equipment etc's list
You can remove a row of data from your selection this button.
Expand Content
This button next to content indicates that the content is collapsible.
More information can be obtained about the content by clicking on this button located in front of it.
Collapse Content
This button shows that the section/information is already expanded.
Click on this icon to collapse the content.
Find or Search
This button is used to search for people/equipments/technologies/facilities to add it to a profile.
It can also be used to search for existing content in FPS.
Request
Certain profiles cannot be created. They need to be requested.
Use this button to request a profile. View Create a New profile for more information
View/Associated Profiles
Use this button to view a profile or view Associated Profiles for any profile
Close Window
This button closes a window that is open is located in the top right hand corner of the window.

FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENTS

Faculty and Doctoral student profiles are built to allow UNT faculty and doctoral students to create an individual web page. Aside from the Core Sections/Data Elements and or Subsections there are data elements that would be necessary for the automatic generation of Biosketches and CV's.
These Profiles also give an option to include descriptive links to labs or other group web pages along with keywords eliminating the need to create separate profiles for them if not required and yet making them searchable.

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Here is a sample faculty profile. The core sections for a faculty profile are presented by default. New Section can be customized and added by using the Toolbox.

RESEARCH CENTER

TECHNOLOGY

FACILITY

EQUIPMENT

LABORATORIES AND RESEARCH GROUPS

CONTACT INFORMATION

Basic Details like Mailing address, Office Location, Various Descriptive URL's etc can be maintained here. Keywords are an important aspect of the profile. The Keywords constitute the meta tags that enables your profile to be searched by external search engines.

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