>This is a good question. While the data NSF pre-loads into your FastLane user
>data base comes from our corporate data, it is only loaded to assist
>institutions by eliminating the need to individually enter FastLane users. Any
>changes, deletions subsequently made do not affect our mainframe data -- it
only
>affects the database of authorized FastLane users. Right now, the only changes
>to PI data that affect our corporate data tables are those that a PI might make
>from within the proposal preparation module (where we allow the PI to edit
>his/her info). A future release of FastLane will allow controlled updating
of PI
>information apart from proposal preparation, and this could potentially be tied
>into the FastLane user table as well). Another planned enhancement is to allow
>downloading of each institutions user file.
>
>So, the bottom line is that old names can be safely deleted without messing up
>NSF.
>
>Bill Kirby
>
>
>.
>
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>Subject: NSF Fastlane System
>Author:  Research Administration Discussion Group
><xxxxxx@health.state.ny.us> at NOTE
>Date:    11/13/96 7:45 PM
>
>
>A question for any of you who've been using this system for awhile...
>
>NSF pre-loads the system with the names of all PI's from your institution who
>have ever submitted proposals.  What are the pro's and con's of cleaning up
that
>list by deleting the names of those faculty members who have died, retired, or
>otherwise moved on and aren't expected back?
>
>My first instinct was to delete all those names -- but once done they would be
>hard to retrieve.  So I'm looking for advice from the more experienced...
>
>Thanks.
>
>Frances Vinal Farnsworth
>Coordinator of Sponsored Research
>Grants Office - Forest Hall
>Middlebury College
>Middlebury, VT  05753
>
>Tel:  802-443-5889
>Fax:  802-443-2083
>email:  xxxxxx@mail.middlebury.edu
>
Sandra Mann
Assistant Director for University Research
University of Florida
219 Grinter Hall
Gainesville, Florida 32611
352/392-1582