Jennifer--We just resubmitted ours today, and it went in okay without any
special note.

See the notice at the top of the Commons web site.

Debbie Smith

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer Donais" <xxxxxx@RESEARCH.UMASS.EDU>
To: <xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] GG Submissions to Commons

> 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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