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GMAS Release 1_16 top
On February 15th GMAS was updated to version 1_16. Details of the changes are listed below. Please direct any questions or comments to the GMAS Help Desk at 6-0800 or contactgmas@harvard.edu.Enhancements
- A request's Preponderance of effort may be viewed and editted from the request home
- A request's Retroactive question may be edited from the request home
- When an action memo is associated to a sponsor notice, the action memo email notification includes a direct link to the sponsor notice homepage
- The order in which account groups appear on an action memo changed from ascending order to descending, causing the newest accounts to be listed first
- For very large projects, performance is improved on the project homepage and the Allocate awarded funds screen in a segment revision
- GMAS security error messages no longer include an unhandled exception error
- After 30 minutes of inactivity, one is required to log back into GMAS
Bug Fixes
- Emails with formatted text and no attachments now appear in the sender's clipboard
- In a Grants.gov submission, the maximum number of Other Attachments on the R&R Other Project Information form and the Appendix attachments on the PHS398 Research Plan increased from five to ten
- When manually flagging a subactivity to be disabled, selecting the No button on the Disable Subactivity Confirmation screen no longer results in a system error
- Single quote marks pasted from Microsoft Word no longer cause errors in the Edit award information screen in a segment revision
- In the subagreement section of an action memo, long Subrecipient PI names word wrap and no longer overwrite information in subsequent columns
- The error that occurs in the request guided steps when adding subrecipient with an organization name over 74 characters is corrected
- Initiate internal review adds a request/segment to a signatory’s portfolio only when the signature is selected as required
- The option to select Closed segments in the user portfolio has been removed since the search did not return closed segments
Technical Changes
- ActionMemoSecurityServlet no longer omits ".pdf" extension from MIME filename
- Corrected a database connection leak in the new action memo code from release 1_15
CREW Grants Management Reports Enhancements top
Two Grants Management reports were modified on February 15, 2008:
- In the Sponsored Research Expenditures report, ‘DEAS’ has been modified to display its new name, ‘SEAS’. Also the information in the report’s footnote has been added to the report catalog
- An anomaly in the Scheduled Reports report was fixed where reports were appearing twice if their segment’s fund had changed
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