Executive Summmary

The December 2018 GMAS release will be available on December 14, 2018. This release features a new dashboard for requests and retirement of all Grants.gov related features.

New dashboard for requests

• Improved version of the existing "Requests in process" dashboard. More detail about this dashboard can be found here.
• Requests are grouped by status, can also set a high level filter for "My portfolio", "HMS", "SPH", and "University area".
• Signatures for request can be viewed by expanding an individual row.
• New "Central reviewer" field allows more flexibility for proposal review assignment and tracking.
  • Central reviewers are either defaulted based on configurable business rules, or can be set directly from the dashboard.
• <Download> button exports all requests to Excel.
• The old "Requests in process" dashboard is still available from the GMAS home page, will be removed in a future release.

Grants.gov System to System (S2S) retirement

Grants.gov submissions have not been supported since January 2018. In this release we are removing all related code.

• "S2S submissions" and "Search S2S opportunities" have been removed from the GMAS home.
• S2S opportunity lookup has been removed from the proposal creation process.
• Removed all Grants.gov specific links from the proposal home page:
  • Preview/validate
  • Grants.gov questions
  • Grants.gov attachments
  • Planned/cumulative enrollment
• Pdf files of all grants.gov submissions have been generated for historical purposes. These can be downloaded from the proposal homepage (with the submission information) or found in the document repository

Converted screens

The following screens have been converted to the new GMAS look and feel:

• Research team list for requests
• Edit interfaculty involvement (from the request home)
  • Now includes a list of related department administrators to simplify adding the correct people to the admin team.
  • Added a new option to automatically add the interfaculty PI to the research team
  • More detail about interfaculty involvement can be found here.

Other changes

• Created an admin page to manage the text of school specific questions.
• Updated <Edit GL budget> for part-of account security (interfaculty department administrators will not be able to edit GL budgets outside of their own Orgs).
• Added "mailing instructions" field back to initial/competing proposals
• Removed "Reporting scheduled defaults" from the organization home (this is no longer used by research finance).
• Added the action memo number to the revision list screen.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an error in segment revision selecting a closed account with pre-award expenditures
• Fixed an error in security management when editing role category configurations
• On the financial deliverables page, the "Final figures" panel no longer includes under development shell accounts
• Improved the error handling for financial deliverable emailing

Technical changes

• Upgraded Hibernate to version 2.1
• Added detailed logging for all searches in GMAS, which will allow us to collect data to help improve the search functions