Betty, You are an optimist!  I wish I could trust that G.g will improve
("a la FastLane"), but mired in the mud as we are with our recent
submissions, I can't see it as getting better just yet.

UMass Amherst had only two of these AREA proposals, but we are still
struggling with one. We were delighted when NIH pushed back the
e-submission requirement for R01s, as we submit a substantial number of
them and I imagine the first time will be quite an adventure!

On the AREA proposals, does anyone know whether we have to write a
special notation to resubmit a corrected one now after the deadline has
passed?  Do we have to provide some kind of explanation as to why, or
does NIH assume based on previous submissions and consider it on time
anyway?

Thanks!
-jennifer donais

Betty Farbman wrote:

>Susan:
>You resubmit until you are blue in the face.
>
>You get different error messages (you must correct these) and warning
>messages (you decide) until you are satisfied.  Each of these is a new
>round of submission until you get to where commons sends you and the PI
>an email asking for you to VERIFY in the STATUS section of commons.
>Then you can each go in to VERIFY (we had the PI do this first, for
>obvious reasons.)  At that point you can get a very pretty picture of
>the application and see if it looks the way you want it to look.
>
>Once you have verified, the commons updates the status to APPROVED.
>
>If you are doing several PIs at once, the flow of error messages from gg
>and commons is a treat.
>
>They eventually went through.
>
>Be mindful of all the issues people had on the listserv - primarily the
>agreement between what the PI has posted in commons and what s/he lists
>in the proposal.  Also the IDC calculation.
>
>Since R01s won't go until next year, I'm sure you it will all be in
>better shape (a la Fastlane) by then.
>
>Best,
>Betty Farbman
>St. John's University
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG] On
>Behalf Of Susan Burke
>Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 3:45 PM
>To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
>Subject: [RESADM-L] GG Submissions to Commons
>
>I want to congratulate all of you who got your AREA proposals
>submitted.  I admit I am truly thankful that NYU didn't have to be one
>of the beta testers on this.
>
>Now... I'm still not sure about the process to follow once it has passed
>
>GG validation, goes into Commons, and comes back with a fatal error.
>Does that have to be corrected before the posted deadline?  Or do we
>have two business days to get the Commons errors cleaned up?
>
>Thanks.
>Susan
>
>
>

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