Re: Sample Adobe Form available Lysen, Cynthia 19 Jul 2007 11:58 EST
Hi Bob, I have done a quick fill of sample form and in response to your questions and comments, here is what I discovered: 1. The "required field" notice could be an annoyance but as I was quickly tabbing through the fields I did miss one and it served as a nice, albeit non-subtle reminder. 2. No double-click is quite an irritant, this step seems a bit archaic 3. Using a Windows machine running XP I was unable to get the attachment to print as well 4. The auto-fill option has been available for Adobe for a while- if you have a limited number of information for fields it can be very beneficial although as you do more and more the information on the pick list can become great and varied 5. Is a good thing as is being able to use the scroll wheel on the form itself (I hope this is not just a test form bonus) Thanks for the heads up on the availability, I'm curious to see what they will be discussing. Cynthia Cynthia Lysen Research Education Lead Office of Sponsored Research Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. North, Mail stop J6-500 PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109-1024 206-667-5807 206-667-6221 (FAX) xxxxxx@fhcrc.org -----Original Message----- From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of Robert Beattie Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 8:57 AM To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org Subject: [RESADM-L] Sample Adobe Form available As part of the materials for the Grants.gov webcast today, there is a sample 424R&R face page available for download http://www.grants.gov/resources/stakeholder_communications.jsp Now there is a chance to review this. Open with various versions of Adobe. Fill it out. Note various aspects of it. 1. Put your cursor into a yellow field and then tab or otherwise move it out. You get a big pop up box telling you its a required field. I find this very very annoying. Anyone else think this is a feature we can do without? 2. How to open a form. No double click like other 21st century programs, not even highlight and click open form on left. First you must move it to the right, and then highlight and click open form? Why move to open. By the way, when there are a number of forms on the left, you can move them in any order unlike the PureEdge where they stayed in the original order when moved. I wonder if NIH will have a problem putting forms back into order. 3. Print? Add an attachment, then try to print, do you get the attachment printed? If not (I do not get it), then I hope everyone will write a message in to the webcast asking for a full print option. If the system is to meet our expectations, then it must do this. 4. One good thing, is it just on Macs? Once I fill in a field, the next time I enter that field, with a new application, the previous entry shows in a pull down list. So once I enter the Organization name on one application, it is just a matter of clicking in the field to get it next time. Try this. Save a blank form, enter something in a required field, save. Then open up a new from and see if that info is available in that field. 5. Second good thing. Once you move all the forms to the right box, you can use the page slider on the right to move up and down through all the pages of all forms. Almost as good as double clicking. Just a few things to get you started looking at a form. Bob xxxxxx@umich.edu ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================