Bob,

This is a great request. I know we wanted something like this before
NIH switched to grants.gov, but this would be even more valuable now.
Please update us on any response from the grants.gov team.

Cheers.

Mike

Michael Nguyen
Electronic Research Administrator
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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On Jan 29, 2008, at 6:28 AM, Bob Beattie wrote:

> Here is a copy of a message I sent to the primary managers at
> Grants.gov.  I thought we could use an opportunity to submit a test
> Adobe Forms application to make sure we had the right configuration
> of Adobe Reader 8.1.1, and that we could have that program and
> others on our system, and still get positive results.
>
> Some people have already done actual submissions, some failed but
> were fixed, some were successful. For the rest, a test submission
> might be useful.  It is a "long-shot" as these folks are very
> swamped now.  But, perhaps at least worth a try.  I'll post the
> outcome of the request.
>
> Bob
> ------------------------------
> Robert Beattie
> UMich Grants.gov Liaison
> Managing Project Representative for Electronic Research Administration
> Division of Research Development and Administration
> University of Michigan
> xxxxxx@umich.edu   (734) 936-1283
> Learn more about Grants.gov @ UMICH
> http://www.research.umich.edu/era/grants_gov/
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Bob Beattie <xxxxxx@umich.edu>
> Date: January 29, 2008 9:23:02 AM GMT-05:00
> To: "Vincent (HHS/ASRT) Sprouls"  "Michael (HHS/ASRT) Pellegrino"
> Subject: test submissions
>
> Hi Michael and Vince,
>
> It is great to see so much activity going on with the implementation
> of Adobe Forms.  Such good progress.  I think most people are now
> understanding what is needed.
>
> There has been much discussion of what programs will work and not
> work, and how to install them, on the Research Administrators .
> This is a discussion group of some 2500 administrators around the
> country.
>
> You put up some example Adobe forms so people could have a look and
> this is very helpful.  May I suggest one more step that would really
> help us all in understanding how the process will work.
>
> Is it possible that you can allow people to submit one of the
> example applications to a test server so that they can be sure they
> have the right configuration of Adobe Reader 8.1.1.  A number of
> people have expressed a concern that they cannot have different
> versions of Adobe products on their computer, even if they are using
> only Reader 8.1.1 for filling out and submitting.
>
> I know this is a bit of extra work in the middle of your already
> burdened agenda.  I suspect few people know that the whole
> Grants.gov enterprise sits on the shoulders of about six federal
> staffers.  Yet this is very important, as otherwise, people's first
> submission attempt will be with a real application, in perhaps a
> crisis mode.
>
> Thanks very much for your continued efforts to improve the process,
> and I hope you can add the test submission option to the otherwise
> successful operation.
>
> Bob
> xxxxxx@umich.edu
>
>
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