There will be a GMAS release this weekend. GMAS will be unavailable starting at 12AM, April 7th, and will be available again by 7AM, April 9th. This release focuses mainly on FIRST and Subrecipient Monitoring.
FIRST
This release includes the first wave of enhancements for improving and extending the automation for generating sponsored invoices and financial reports directly from GMAS, reducing the reliance on paper for the workflow of preparing and approving financial deliverables, and Improving visibility for the whole sponsored community. This includes:
- Financial Deliverables Dashboard linked from the GMAS homepage
- Enhanced Financial Deliverables Scheduler
- Enhanced Financial Deliverables screen
- Automatic generation of standard interim templates
- Preview of PDF Templates (PDF, Word, and Excel)
- GMAS Emailing of Templates to the Sponsor
- Financial Deliverables Document Repository
FRAP will remain available after the April 9th release to allow for continued use of the FRAP checklist. FRAP will be decommissioned with a future release.
Subrecipient Monitoring
A new panel called "Risk assessments" has been added to the GMAS External Organizations screen to support the transition of Subrecipient Monitoring from Microsoft Access Web Apps to GMAS.
OSP has presented on both of these topics at several venues throughout the University. The slides used for these presentations can be found here:https://gmas.fss.harvard.edu/files/gmas/files/osp_gmas_release.pptx.
Other
There are several bugs that have been fixed with this release. Some of the fixes include:
- Adding the disable tooltips back to the Edit GL budget buttons on the accounts list screen
- Fixing an issue where proposals could not be deleted if there were associated subagreements (subagreements needed to be deleted first)
- Correcting the Action Memo to show pending sub agreements correctly
For the full list of release notes, please visit the 1_46 Release Page on the GMAS Website.
For questions about the release, please email contactgmas@harvard.edu.