Performance/Technical

GMAS speed has been significantly improved through invasive architectural changes.

• These architectural changes have also prepared GMAS for the GMAS 2.0 project
• IE 10 Fixes
• Maximum length issue on all look-up fields resolved
• Ability to edit summary on segment home restored
• Broken links fixed 
• Prime Sponsor and Title fields now wrap appropriately (also resolved in Firefox)
• Grants.gov attachment names now all show appropriately
• All documents in Segment Documents appear

HMS Conflict of Interest/OAR Approval

• The HMS Outside Activity Reporting (OAR) system has been integrated with GMAS, so that the institution’s obligation to collect and review financial interests for each grant application and award is streamlined into the existing GMAS workflow. 
• For more information please refer to GMAS / OAR Integration.

Security

• GMAS user flags will default to Yes for all person profiles with a HUID
• This change will allow individuals added on projects to access GMAS immediately
• This change will allow individuals added to projects as signatories to electronically sign immediately
• Authorized requestors will no longer need to request GMAS user flags to be set to yes from FSS Client Services
• FSS Client Services will continue to change GMAS user flags to No when appropriate

Confirm Research Team

• Confirm Research Team functionality will be available at the segment level once a request is in submitted to sponsor status. Previously, Confirm Research Team only appeared when a notice has been logged against an initial request, or when there is an approved At-Risk request.
• If a research team is confirmed and then a revise to resubmit is created within the segment, the confirmed research team and approvals generated at the segment level will be deleted. The confirm research team option will be available again once the new request version is submitted to sponsor.
• Confirm Research Team Bug Fixes
  • Selecting the "Other" role when confirming or editing the research team now requires a description to be entered 
  • Date fields on the confirm research team and edit research team screens now allow slashes and/or dashes
  • Confirm Research Team to-do's are removed correctly for all individuals in the Department Administrator role when the to-do is completed

System-to-system (S2S)

• When an IRB approval is exempt GMAS no longer requires that the approval date received be entered so that the package submitted to sponsor does not include a date that is not required
• Summary information for Grants.gov documents no longer appears on the request home. This drastically improves performance for S2S requests.
• System-to-System Bug Fixes
• Non-personnel count in the budget forms now only includes the number of non-personnel paid within the budget period (was previously including non-personnel count for entire project in each budget period)
• User-friendly errors will appear for submissions where the inclusion or planned enrollment forms were selected to be included with the submission with no data populated in the forms
• Return characters in the inclusion or planned enrollment titles no longer disable the edit and delete functions
• Fixed an issue requiring an extra attachment on the Career Award Supplement Form

General

• The Investigator flag will no longer default to yes when key personnel is flagged yes (both flags will function independently)
• Instructional text has been added where the key personnel and investigator questions appear to assist in making appropriate selections
• New Disciplines have been added to request guided steps
• (1) Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering
• (2) Bioengineering
• (3) Chemical Engineering
• (4) Civil Engineering
• (5) Electrical Engineering
• (6) Mechanical Engineering
• (7) Metallurgical/Materials Engineering
• (8) Architecture, Urban Planning, Design
• The most recent comments for accounts and receivables will now appear in CREW and ad-hoc reports
• All perm file functionality has been retired from GMAS
• All perm file screens have been removed
• All perm file database references have been removed
• Perm file librarian role has been retired
• Equipment flag at segment level can no longer be edited once a segment has become active.
• When the equipment question is answered on a pending segment, the responses will filter into the revision for the central offices to review.
• Once the segment becomes active, only the central offices will have the authorization to edit the equipment flag
• The special equipment terms, title, and ownership type will continue to be editable by department users
• Full list of documents no longer appears on any homepages - clicking the "Documents" link will still go to the full list. This change improves performance for all the homepages
• General Bug fixes
• The fCOI Disclosure on File question now displays correctly based on the status
• Modified the fCOI interface to fix a bug where PHS investigators were receciving flag incorrectly in fCOI
• The Research Team now displays properly from segment home when an at-risk request is in the process of being awarded (no longer results in an unhandled exception error)
• Research Team now displays properly when a segment is in At-risk status (no longer displays a blank team or just the PI)
• Revisions can now be processed from a request that has been previously awarded
• Subagreement errors generated from attempting to extend dates beyond obligations are user friendly again (instead of code errors that require deciphering from the GMAS help desk)
• Preferred Email addresses now update properly
• PI's are now routed to the PI Dashboard when logging into GMAS
• Editing request information on continuations and supplements now saves properly
• HUIDC changes in revisions no longer save if the revision is deleted
• Action Memo notifications no longer duplicate the Central Offices comments (they now only appear once for each action memo recipient)