Many grants are already being imported from ROLA into RIMS. If you have a grant that has not been captured in the ROLA import, which you wish to maintain in RIMS, you can create a new grant record.
To create a new manual grant record in RIMS:
Go to the RIMS login page and sign in with your Western email address and password.
On the Homepage, click on "Grants & Awards (+ Add New)".
Select the grant type that you want to create;
Grant – a public facing grant on RIMS Discovery
Grant (Sensitive) – a private grant internal to your own RIMS profile
Scholarship
Prize / Award
Other grant
Enter the grant information in the provided data fields to populate your grant record.
The following fields should be populated:
Privacy settings
Relationship to the grant
Funder, Title, Start and End Dates, Program
Optionally: Amount, URL, Description
Click the "Save" button to persist your grant record.
