To run a vita report using Digital Measures: 

  1. First, log into Digital Measures. To log in, visit: https://www.digitalmeasures.com/login/ncat/faculty or http://www.ncat.edu/ and click on "Faculty and Staff."
  2. Click "Digital Measures" in the left-hand navigation list, or at the bottom of the right-hand navigation in the OSPIE links list.
  3. Log into Digital Measures using your NC A&T ID and current password (OneID).


4. Once logged in, click on the "Reports" link at the top of the welcome screen. This link allows you to run reports that are pre-built such as the vita report, or custom reports. 

5. On the "Reports" screen, click on the "Create a New Report" link in the right-hand under “Digital Measures by Watermark”.

6. Select the Report-style “Vita”. This option will prove the easiest and fastest way to customize a Vita report. You can use the standard structure and make minor changes (such as filtering, drag-and-drop to reorder sections, and setting date ranges) to accommodate your needs. 

The “SECTIONS” Structure

Custom Vita's are comprised of sections, which are essentially containers to use to group elements of your document together. When you click onto an element of your Vita the system will highlight the section it’s in.              

There are top-level sections, and then within those, you can add one or more Activities or Text sections. The majority of the sections in a Vita will be Activities Sections, which contain citations of your data that you’ve entered through the Activities utility.

Previewing Your Vita

The customizable Vita's feature provides a live preview of how your data will pull into your Vita template so you can see the impacts of your changes as you go.


Reordering Sections

To reorder sections, highlight the section you want to move. On the left side of the section, find the drag-and-drop handle drag and drop handle. Select and hold this handle, and drag the section to the appropriate location.

Adding an Activities Section
To pull in citations from a data collection screen you will add an Activities Section to your Vita. Just select an existing element in the template, and select the “Add Section” button. Give the new section an appropriate heading, and select “Add Activities.”

At this point, you will need to select a type of activity. The options available for “Type” will reflect the categories available to you in Activities. Let’s choose “Awards and Honors” and select the checkmark icon to confirm your selection. You will notice your Awards and Honors records stored in Activity Insight now appear in the designated section. You will also see a selection of formatting, filtering and grouping options you can apply to this new Activities Section.


If your data is not up-to-date in Activities, some of your accomplishments may be missing from an Activities Section. Suppose you have a new publication last week, but you didn’t remember to enter it in Activities. Take a moment to save your report template, navigate to Activities, add the new record, and return to your report. If the new record meets your filtering criteria, it will now appear in your customized Vita.


Formatting An Activities Section

To add formatting to an Activities Section, click on the block of citations you’d like to format. You will then see a toolbar with formatting options provided, including (Hanging indentation, Bulleted lists, Numbered lists, Alignment, Indent and Outdent).

For Activities Sections with data from the Publications (or Intellectual Contributions) screen, you may also change the citation style that dictates the formatting for those entries. To set the citation style for publications select the  in the activity options toolbar and select your preferred style.

To apply your preferred formatting, make your selections and select the check mark icon.


Filtering Activities
You may need to filter the content of some of your Activities Sections:

  • You may need to filter the content of some of your Activities Sections:
    To ensure that only citations meeting specific criteria show (e.g., only “accepted” and “published” publications or only “peer-reviewed/refereed” items).
  • To override the global Vita date range for a specific section, like your degrees.

To apply filters to an Activities Section, click on the section of citations you wish to filter. This will reveal a toolbar with a “Filter” option. Expand this “Filter” menu and select your filters. Then select the check mark icon to apply them.


Grouping Activities
You may also want to change how activities are grouped within a section. To dictate how records should be grouped, select an Activities Section and select a field under “Group By”. This list is based on the drop-down list fields available for a given screen.

Saving Your Report

Keep in mind that once you’ve built a report template, you can use that template infinitely. In order to do that, you need to save the report. To save, simply select the “Save” button in the top-right corner of the screen. You will be prompted to name the report before saving. Make sure you give the template a unique name, since it will appear among your list of available reports in the Reports utility.

                           

Each time you open the report, it will remember the ordering, filtering, and settings from the last time you saved the template, but it will refresh with any new records or updates that have been entered in Activities.