Not as easy for me as for you. I get a message saying "conversion error" when I try to fill in the application. Of course, no explanation of what a conversion error is, or which of the entries has it, so I had to email g.g help desk. Of course, no response yet. And my birth date is none of their business, but apparently I can't use their system without divulging it. Robert P. Bloomberg Director, Office of Grants & Contracts Tufts Medical Center 800 Washington Street (Tupper 10) Boston, MA 02111 Tel. 617.636.1142 Fax. 617.636.8568 > -----Original Message----- > From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf > Of Bob Beattie > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 1:52 PM > To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org > Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] help for those unable to log into Grants.gov AT > ALL > > We were all "dumped" by the system over the weekend :) Note that the > closing of Grants.gov over the weekend of Feb 7-8 was quite well > publicized. I told this group about it last week, NIH sent a wide > spread message, and it was noted on the Grants.gov site. > In general this system "Build" has been successful. No more "false > errors", no more inability to log in, no more virus messages that do > not refer to actual attachment file errors, and no long list of > impossible to understand errors. > > The full description of the Build, including how to register is here > http://www.grants.gov/assets/SystemEnhancements2008-03A.pdf > > Regarding the registration process, this is necessary because > Grants.gov must take over its own authentication activity. People > can still log in to submit, with the current password. However, if > you want to check an application status, you must re-register. I did > this > for all of our AOR's this morning. About 10 minutes per person. > Much of the necessary data are pre-populated. You need to put in a > Date of Birth -- I guess you can submit a free application on your > birthday? Is this an appropriate public data element. I do not > think so > and filled it with that perspective. You need to add a secret > question and answer -- I used the same one for all the staff, so we > can help each other remember. You then enter a password -- I used > the same one we had already. All pretty easy. If you > are already registered, then some of what Susan reports from the Help > Desk is not appropriate. Just log in as usual, click continue to log > in, and your data are presented. > > At UMich we have been submitting quite nicely today, looking up > applications in the list, and very happy to have all the emails with > the Grant number at the beginning of the subject line. I forward all > Grants.gov messages into a special folder, sorted by subject and so can > see if all 4 are there. > > Bob > ------------------------------ > Robert Beattie > 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 > > > On Feb 10, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Suzan G Lund wrote: > > > Some of us were dumped from the Grants.gov system over the weekend. > We finally got that feedback from a user who shared their answer on > the G.g blog. Thanks to whoever shared the info! Below is the blog > comment (one caveat, we received several reset messages and tried > them all till one worked and logged us in so we could reset the > password back to our old one.) > > > I just got off the phone with grants.gov and with the new server > change over the weekend all persons that were on what they call the > Legacy Servers did not make the move to the newer servers. So - we > all have to go to grants.gov and reset our passwords (we can use our > old ones) and re-fill out our profiles again. > > Steps: > 1) Go to http://www.grants.gov/ > 2) On the right side of the page, under "Applicants," click on > "Applicant Login" > 3) Click "Continue to Login" > 4) Select "Forgot my Password" > 5) Follow the instructions, "enter your username" > 6) You will then receive an email from grants.gov with a temporary > password. Click on the link in the email and cut and paste the > temporary password into the appropriate box. > 7) Complete your profile > 8) After you complete your profile, you will then be asked to create > your new password. You can use your old one. > 9) Once re-set - then you are good to go and can submit proposals > grants.gov again > > > Suzan G. Lund, CRA > Associate Director, Sponsored Programs > University of Nebraska-Lincoln > 312 N. 14th St., Alexander West > Lincoln, NE 68588-0430 > Ph: 402-472-1930 Fax: 402-472-9323 > email: xxxxxx@unl.edu > website: http://research.unl.edu/sp1 > ====================================================================== 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") > ====================================================================== ====================================================================== 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") ======================================================================
