Re: another g.g fluke Bob Beattie 29 May 2008 16:02 EST
This is a problem of too many characters in the project description, a form field, not an attachment. The system was counting certain punctuation as multiple characters. This problem is known to G.g and they have said they are working on it. In the meantime, consider using fewer characters than the max allowed for text fields. Or, if you want to go to the limit, do as Donna suggests, use only periods and commas in the project description. Maybe this will be fixed in the next system build. Bob ------------------------------ Robert Beattie UMich e-Business Point of Contact UMich Grants.gov Liaison Managing Senior 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/ On May 29, 2008, at 4:08 PM, Nicole Nicholas wrote: This actually sounds like it might be a font issue, rather than a random error. Let’s say for instance Adobe doesn’t recognize the font that is being used in the original doc. and when the file is converted to pdf the unrecognizable font characters turn into question marks. I could be wrong, but it’s a theory. ~Nikki Nicole J. Nicholas Research Grant & Contract Specialist ORSP - Rutgers University 732.932.0150 x2127 http://orsp.rutgers.edu Note: Please remember the mandatory NIH Public Access Policy From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of Kellie Dyslin Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 3:49 PM To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] another g.g fluke Diana, Were these PDF attachments? If so, the characters shouldn't have changed. We PDF all attachments to g.g. aps as a rule, and have not had this problem. >>> "Vincelli, Diana" <xxxxxx@RICHMOND.EDU> 5/15/2008 12:06 PM >>> Greetings Grants.Gov Warriors, Twice in recent weeks we have submitted applications to NEH via grants.gov. Both were rejected with very obscure error messages. After a number of conversations and email exchanges with grants.gov, I was told with the first, “Oh you have a curly apostrophe in the project description (summary on SF424) which turns into 3 question marks and puts you over the 1000 character limit.” In the second one, it was regular straight quotation marks that turned into 4 question marks! (thus putting the project description over the limit). In both cases I asked the grants.gov rep why he/she knew that, but the end users are not informed of such quirks. Neither knew why. So the bottom line is: no punctuation except periods and commas in the Project Description. Diana Diana Thompson Vincelli Director of Grant Support Office of Foundation, Corporate & Government Relations G-14 Maryland Hall University of Richmond, VA 23173 804.289.8005; fax 804.289-8943 xxxxxx@richmond.edu http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/grants P Please consider the environment before printing this email ====================================================================== I nstructions 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") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== I nstructions 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") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== I nstructions 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") ======================================================================