Your Sidebar Explained

1) Under Communications you can find the following:

1. Notifications – provides access to your full list of notifications. Also allows for search, sorting, and exporting of notifications

2. Invention Discussion – provides access to all open (pending and/or not closed) communications with agencies
3. Requests – provides access to all requests. Also allows for searching of requests

2) Under Submit Report you can complete the following actions:

1. Invention – allows you to submit a new Invention Report
2. Patent – allows you to submit a new Patent Report (note: you will need the Invention Report Number to submit a Patent Report using this method)
3. Utilization – allows you to submit a new Utilization Report (note: you will need the Invention Report Number to submit a Utilization Report using this method)

3) Under Search/Manage Report are links to search for existing reports

1. Invention - allows you to search and open existing Invention Reports 
2. Patent - allows you to search and open existing Patent Reports
3. Utilization - allows you to search and open existing Utilization 
4. Document - allows you to search and open documents previously uploaded into iEdison

4) Under Generate Report are links for generating Custom and Standard Reports

1. Custom – allows you to build your own report from various iEdison data fields
2. Standard – allows you to select reports from pre-developed reports

5) The Bulk Upload link is for uploading large quantities of Invention, Patent, and/or Utilization Data at one time. See the Bulk Upload Instruction Manual for additional details on how to use this functionality.

6) Under Manage Profiles are links for managing:

1. My Profile – allows you to edit your personal information and manage your email notification preferences
2. User Profiles – allows you to manage iEdison user accounts for your organization (admins only)
3. My Organization Profile – allows you to edit preferences and information for and about your organization (admins only)