We are always interested to hear about ways we can improve this web site and services for our visitors, growers and scientists. Simply drop us a comment below and we will be sure to reply as soon as we can about your idea. Our Suggestion Box is really our high-priority “to-do” list. Your comments are much more likely to be taken care of if you post them here since we can track our progress on them more effectively here than through email.
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I would like to see a way to track the chronology of a particular project. For example, when I search for, say, Project “A” in the Quarterly Reports, it would be great if just the reports for Project A showed up in reverse chronological order. This way, we could easily follow the progress of the scientists working on that project.
We are working on ways to improve searches in the reports. We will be sure to look into how we might add this feature. Thanks for the suggestion!
[RESOLVED] This feature is now added to the Search Reports section. We call it our “Project Audit History”. Here’s an example of how to use it, starting from Home Page Navigation Menu > For Growers > Search Reports:
Step 1: Do a search for, say, “low volume” (without quotes).
Step 2: Scroll down to one of the reports in the list.
Step 3: Click on the “View Project Details” link found below the project title.
Step 4: You will find the project audit trail under the report title, about in the middle of the page, The report submission dates are listed in reverse chronological order. Our Project Audit History tool is great for tracking project progress and determining who is achieving their objectives on schedule. There are a number of other ways you can use this feature, and we’re sure you’ll figure them out as soon as you play around with the tool.
Since we completed adding this feature per request, we’re marking this support ticket as resolved.
Advanced Search is now online on our Search Reports page. Just click the drop-down link directly below the main search field and you will be able to search specific fields for anything that interests you. You also have full text search capabilities, where you can search for any term found anywhere in the entire content of the submitted report.
Steve,
Could you offer an option to search for PI. If I wanted to see all the projects for one particular researcher and did not know titles this would be a challenge today.
John,
Our search uses a simple keyword approach. You can easily call up all the reports for a particular PI simply by typing their name in the search field at the top of the For Growers > Search Reports page and pressing Search. For example, type Bowman, and you get all Bowman’s projects listed in reverse chronological order. To track the chronology of a particular project, just click on View Project Details. One feature coming online next week is better searching for PI, so keep an eye out for improved features coming soon.
Hope that helps, if not, please let us know!
Just a couple of suggestions:
For the researchers report submission procedure.
It would be best to remove all previous grants that are finalized to make it easier to recognize what grants need reports and avoid having to search through older grants. Most older completed grants have been removed but some still exist.
When a grant is submitted, the default should be to take you back to the page where the list of grants are so that the researcher can simply submit the next report. Presently it is not immediately evident how to return to the submission page area. (Have to hit Back twice on browser).
Thanks for the idea, I recall you mentioning this before, too. We’re in the midst of updating the program, so now’s a good time to bring this up. I think you’re right about changing the default navigation control to go back to the list of grants, so I’ll forward your suggestion to our developers. I’ll also discuss with CRDF staff how they’re handling the older grants and post an update here.
I will be talking with the programmers sometime in the next several days about the best way to implement your feature suggestions.
Does the CRDF have an email address? I can not find one under the “contact us” or the home page.
I need to get a user name and password to load up a progress report.
It would be really useful if on the log in page there was an option to apply for a user name and password directly from that page.
Instead, because I am working in Peru, I had to Skype the telephone number to the Lake Alfred address above, but as luck would have it, that number went through to an answering machine.
I hope someone can help me with this request.
Thank you
Mark Hoddle (mark.hoddle@ucr.edu)
I have added the email link to the Contact page and will also forward your comment to the CRDF. They will be able to issue you a username and password. I’ll queue your register on log in suggestion and forward it to our developers.
The new Progress Report form has been improved to allow researchers using Acrobat Reader to save their completed report to a local computer before submitting.
All researchers should now be using this new Progress Report form instead of updating, re-naming and submitting your previous report file.
If you experience a problem entering information in any of the fields of a PDF Form, please post the issue immediately in the comment area of the Support Page so the issue can be remedied quickly.
You can access the Support Page using the following link:
http://www.citrusrdf.org/blog/reports/crdf-suggestion-box
I’ve been contacted by a research group interested in submitting a new
research proposal. I couldn’t find any RFP information on the CRDF
website, but I might have overlooked it. Is there an upcoming deadline
for submitting proposals?
There’s no active RFP at this time, but the Foundation is developing the next schedule now. We’ll post the announcement here at citrusrdf.org when the program is approved.