We also received this error, but of course never got an email from grants.gov, we found the information in applicant tracking.  We were going to take a process of elimination approach to see if we could see where the error came from.  Our first step was to simply resend it and see what happens.  It went through all the way to NIH no problems.    I believe this another error that you can add to the list of errors that makes no sense.  However, it is does not go on the list of errors to ignore, you do have to resubmit.  

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Wayne State University

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From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of Arthur Eisenberg
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 8:39 AM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: [RESADM-L] Weird Grants.gov error - not a valid value for "decimal"

 

Has anyone seen this kind of error come back from grants.gov  and do you have an idea what it means and how to correct it.

This message came back after it has passed grants.gov - it's a resubmission after a previous error that passed grants.gov, but came back with an NIH error.

THANKS -

 

Error:Schema validation failed

DefaultValidationHandler found 18 problems:

        18 Errors:

        1: (line 2 column 27896) cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1: '' is not a valid value for 'decimal'.

        2: (line 2 column 27896) cvc-type.3.1.3: The value '' of element 'PHS398_ModularBudget:DirectCostLessConsortiumFandA3' is not valid.

        3: (line 2 column 27951) cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1: '' is not a valid value for 'decimal'.

        4: (line 2 column 27951) cvc-type.3.1.3: The value '' of element 'PHS398_ModularBudget:TotalFundsRequestedDirectCosts3' is not valid.

        5: (line 2 column 28086) cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1: '' is not a valid value for 'decimal'.

        6: (line 2 column 28086) cvc-type.3.1.3: The value '' of element 'PHS398_ModularBudget:TotalFundsRequestedDirectIndirectCosts3' is not valid.

        7: (line 2 column 28311) cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1: '' is not a valid value for 'decimal'.

        8: (line 2 column 28311) cvc-type.3.1.3: The value '' of element 'PHS398_ModularBudget:DirectCostLessConsortiumFandA4' is not valid.

        9: (line 2 column 28366) cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1: '' is not a valid value for 'decimal'.

        10: (line 2 column 28366) cvc-type.3.1.3: The value '' of element 'PHS398_ModularBudget:TotalFundsRequestedDirectCosts4' is not valid.

        11: (line 2 column 28501) cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1: '' is not a valid value for 'decimal'.

        12: (line 2 column 28501) cvc-type.3.1.3: The value '' of element 'PHS398_ModularBudget:TotalFundsRequestedDirectIndirectCosts4' is not valid.

        13: (line 2 column 28726) cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1: '' is not a valid value for 'decimal'.

        14: (line 2 column 28726) cvc-type.3.1.3: The value '' of element 'PHS398_ModularBudget:DirectCostLessConsortiumFandA5' is not valid.

        15: (line 2 column 28781) cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1: '' is not a valid value for 'decimal'.

        16: (line 2 column 28781) cvc-type.3.1.3: The value '' of element 'PHS398_ModularBudget:TotalFundsRequestedDirectCosts5' is not valid.

        17: (line 2 column 28916) cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1: '' is not a valid value for 'decimal'.

        18: (line 2 column 28916) cvc-type.3.1.3: The value '' of element 'PHS398_ModularBudget:TotalFundsRequestedDirectIndirectCosts5' is not valid.

 

The document is NOT valid!

 

Please correct the above error(s) and resubmit your application to Grants.gov.

 

Arthur Eisenberg

Research Administration Rm 928

SUNY College of Optometry

33 West 42nd Street

New York, NY  10036

 

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