Article Intended For
All university faculty, staff, researchers with permission to use and/or access Penn State Research Information Systems.
Introduction
Dashboard View: Top Menu
Article Body
Wide-Screen Menu
The Dashboard Top Menu contains icons, single items, and dropdown menus.
- The "Print" icon sends a printable version of the page to a printer.
- The "Refresh" icon causes the entire page to refresh. The counts in the Dashboard Menu are re-counted, and the Main Content area is refreshed with the "home page" contents.
- Single items "Abstract Search" and "Current & Pending" can be accessed with a single mouse click.
- Dropdown menus
- "Portfolio" displays a top-level menu of your proposals. negotiations, awards, and research protocols, including current counts. See Dashboard View: Portfolio SubMenu
- "Other Reports" offers Report choices including Completed Awards, Not-Funded Proposals, and Summary Report. See Dashboard View: Reports Choices for more detail.
- "Delegate Access" offers choices to display your delegates (People Who Can View My Research Portfolio) and those who have delegated access to you (People I can View). See also myResearch Portal (Dashboard): How to Delegate Access to your myReseach Portal Information]
- "Links" offers a list of other websites relevant to research at PSU
- "Views" offers other views of myResearch Portal. Note that the same information and functionality is presented in every view.
If you prefer to see the Dashboard view the next time you log in to MyResearch Portal, click the item, "Make this my Default View". Also see myResearch: How to Set Your Preferred View
Narrow-Screen Menu
The Narrow-screen Dashboard menu is used when the width of the display port (browser window, or portable device screen) is too narrow to accommodate the wide-screen menu. It is activated from a single icon, located at the top right of the screen. It combines all the choices from the Portfolio, Reports, Delegation, and Links drop-downs as described above. Any item on the menu that ends in the symbol:
shows or hides a sub-menu with each click.