As a 'work around' to the search problem in the status list on the ERA commons, I have resorted to using the search function under maintenance of the account.

Using the search function by PI under that tab will bring a link to all of his or her NIH support, past, present and pending, but no links to the full status page. So if I need the grant number of a recent submission, I'll use that search function first, then go back to the status search page, plug in the grant number and get to the full grant status that way.

It's an extra step... but it works, and saves me waiting through a search that doesn't bring any results.

Amy L. Taylor, MBA, CRA
Grants Manager
Department of Genome Sciences
University of Washington
1705 NE Pacific Street,
Foege Building, S250-B
Seattle, WA  98195-5065
Office: 206-616-7823
Fax: 206-685-7301

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Suzan G Lund wrote:

> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:40:00 -0500
> From: Suzan G Lund <xxxxxx@UNLNOTES.UNL.EDU>
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> Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] JIT and other problems with the Commons
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> The problem of searching by PI name resulting in inconsistent (or no)
> responses is one we became aware of last November.  We were informed that
> Commons folks were aware of the problem and will fix it....eventually.  I
> hope this makes it to the top of the priority list soon.  It's a major
> problem when the only info you have to search on is the PI name.  I can
> only image how challenging it is for institutions with large numbers of
> NIH awards.
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> Suzan G. Lund, CRA
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> I had a related problem regarding a proposal that was missing from our
> institutional status list on the Commons.  After two months, four emails
> telling me the problem had been resolved (?!), and two phone calls, the
> Help Desk advised me to search under the institute and number, rather than
> the PI's name, to find the proposal.  I explained that if I had the
> institute and number, I probably wouldn't need to perform the search. Talk
> about circular reasoning. . .
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> Regarding searching by PI name, I haven't had that particular problem
> until this episode.  It seems to me that the Commons didn't have a lot of
> these problems until the recent addition of R01's to the Grants.gov
> submission process--or is it just my imagination?
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> Nancy
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