Help with Logging in to PCMF

Intended Audience

The ‘help’ provided below is intended for PCMF users in the IAEA Member States. Please follow the instructions set out below.

If you are an Agency staff member that is not a registered PCMF user, please send an e-mail to the following Agency e-mail address: TC-Project-Team.Contact-Point@iaea.org for registration.

Help Instructions

To access the PCMF system, the user requires a valid username and password. This username and password is the same as the one used for TCPRIDE (http://tcpride.iaea.org).

If the user does not have a username and password for TCPRIDE and PCMF, first register for TCPRIDE. To complete the registration process, please visit the following website http://tcpride.iaea.org. The screen shot shown below shows the screen displayed when website address is entered in a web browser.

Once the above web page is shown in the user’s web browser, the user should click the ‘Register’ button highlighted above. The screen shot below shows the page displayed once the button has been clicked. Instructions are given on how to complete the registration process.

Once a user has been registered, the user has the option to change the automatically generated password given to them. The ‘Change Password’ button on the page displayed at http://tcpride.iaea.org will guide the user through the simple process of changing his/her password. On the same page there is a button ‘Retrieve Password’. This button allows users to have a reminder of their password sent to the e-mail address they have registered with the Agency.

Additional assistance and information on usernames and password can be obtained by e-mailing the following Agency e-mail address: TC-Project-Team.Contact-Point@iaea.org.

To gain access to the PCMF system, please visit the following website: http://pcmf.iaea.org.

A screen shot of the opening PCMF page is shown below. This page provides basic information about the website and has a section from which to download national and regional concept documents.

For a user to upload concepts and view details about projects, the user must log into the system, using the username and password mentioned above.

The username and password is entered in the top right hand corner of the screen as highlighted on the screen shot above.

Once a valid username and password is entered into the boxes provided, and the user has clicked the ‘Log In’ button, the user will be able to upload new concepts and have access to his/her project details.

The screen shot below shows what a counterpart user would see, when logging into the system. Highlighted is the user’s full name and role in the system displayed at the top of the screen.

Access to the PCMF system is role-based. Users can only view information and perform actions based on their role in the system. Member State users have four potential roles as shown in the table below.

Role	Abbreviation	Description
Counterpart	CP	The counterpart is a Member State user associated with an institution. The user can upload concepts, view the concepts for which they are a team member, add related documents, amend the concept details, e-mail the team and comment on the concept.
National Liaison Assistant	NLA	The National Liaison Assistant is a Member State user associated with the office of the National Liaison Officer. The user can upload concepts, view the concepts for which they are a team member, add related documents, amend the concept details, e-mail the team, approve a concept uploaded by a counterpart, prioritise concepts and comment on the concept.
National Liaison Officer	NLO	The National Liaison Officer is a Member State user nominated by the Member State to liaise between the Member State and the Agency. The user can upload concepts, view concepts for which they are a team member, add related documents, amend the concept details, e-mail the team, approve a concept uploaded by a counterpart, prioritise concepts and comment on the concept.
Representative of Permanent Mission	RPM	The Representative of Permanent Mission is a Member State user based at the permanent mission in Vienna. The user can view concept details for which they are a team member, add related documents and comment on the concept.

Some PCMF users may have more than one role in the system. For example, a user could be both a counterpart and a National Liaison Officer. Depending on which role the user is carrying out, the user will be able to perform different tasks in the system.

To change between roles a user should visit the ‘Home’ tab of the PCMF website. Click on the word ‘Home’ shown below.

After the details for ‘Home’ tab appear; scroll down the page until the section ‘My User Roles’ shown in the screen shot below appears.

To choose the role required, click the ‘Select’ button in the column next to the role (as shown above), then click the ‘Change Role’ button to make the change.

If a user logs into the system and sees the word ‘Guest’ after his/her name, or a role the user should have does not appear; the user should send an e-mail to the following Agency e-mail address, TC-Project-Team.Contact-Point@iaea.org, to have the correct role assigned to him/her.