user group presentation – release 2.20 august 19, 2008

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

User Group Presentation – Release 2.20

August 19, 2008

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Overview – Release 2.20 Highlights Black font – Click on Ticket Number to see Screen Shot in Presentation Brown font – No Screen Shot in Presentation

GLOBAL CHANGES

Grants Online can now handle MS Office 2007 documents. (Ticket 28439)

The organization profile screen has been redesigned for better clarity (Ticket 27639)

INBOX Tab

Task Management Function— When searching for Financial Reports under the Task Management feature, the Award Numbers

are now displayed. (Ticket 27183)

— Recipient Business/Finance Rep and Selecting Official have been added to the list of roles under the Task Management tab for Help Desk staff. Requests for reassignment of tasks for these roles no longer need to be escalated. (Ticket 28722)

APPLICATION Tab

The Minimum Requirements Checklist has been made mandatory with the use of radio buttons instead of checkboxes. The “Approve” and “Reject” options will not be made available until the checklist has been completed. (Ticket 26469)

The choices for “NEPA Official” will be based on the Program Office of the application, not the primary affiliation of the Federal Program Officer. (Ticket 27452)

The note regarding a Special Award Condition for the waiver for Expanded Authorities on the PO Checklist has been changed into a link. (Ticket 29953)

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Overview – Release 2.20 Highlights (cont.) Black font – Click on Ticket Number to see Screen Shot in Presentation Brown font – No Screen Shot in Presentation

APPLICATION Tab

When the “Reassign” option is chosen from a task on the Application, the only Federal Program Officers that will be available for reassignment will be those that are affiliated with the Program Office that owns the application. (Ticket 30209)

The workflow has been repaired when applications which have been returned from GMD are renegotiated and changed from a new award to being associated with a current award. (Ticket 30505)

Problem with extraneous attachments on GMD Checklist has been fixed. (Ticket 28765)

New search parameters have been added to “Search for Applications” screen. (Ticket 4622)

AWARD Tab

New search parameters have been added to “Search for Awards” screen. (Ticket 4622) Also, search results now include Principal Investigator names. (Ticket 12677)

A minor modification was made to the Progress Report details screen to clarify non-editable data fields. (Ticket 26535)

The word “Final” has been added to the search results of the “Search Reports” page when the Progress or Financial report is a final report. (Ticket 27393)

Display of the Special Award Conditions button on award documents (CD-450 and Amendments) will be dependent upon the actual existence of a SAC. The button will not be displayed if there are no SACs on the document. (Ticket 28729)

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AWARD Tab (continued)

For Recipients — On the “Manager Award Personnel” screen, notes have been added to warn users that if an

Authorized Representative, Recipient Administrator, or Business/Finance Representative is removed from an award, they are also removed from all other awards associated with that organization. (Ticket 5096)

— A “Reassign” option has been added to the Action drop down box for tasks belonging to an Authorized Representative when no other Authorized Representatives in the organization has a duplicate task in their inbox for that activity. (Ticket 8269)

— System now detects when tasks are owned by an Authorized Representative and removes the additional step needed to forward a document to NOAA. (Ticket 23236)

— A new notification will be sent to recipients on the 4 th day of the month, four months (approximately 120 days) after an award has expired if there is still a balance that has not been drawn down. If there has been an extension to the closeout period, the notification will be sent 30 days after that extension date has passed. (Ticket 25393)

— Final SF-272 reports can no longer be included in a SF-272A for multiple awards. (Ticket 29054)

For GMD — Additional Updates were made to Enforcement tasks (Ticket 29468):

– New Termination for Cause workflow was implemented– New workflow was implemented for reactivation of payments or awards which

have been suspended— All Final SF-269 reports will be routed to GMD for review before being routed to the Finance

Office whether or not there are any comments on the report. (Ticket 25756)

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AWARD Tab (continued)

For GMD (continued)— The system can now handle more than one extension to the closeout date. (Ticket 29385)

— Guidance on the SF-272 for “Cash on Hand” comment has been changed from “Cash on Hand of $5K for 5 days” to “Cash on hand of $5K for 3 days.”

REPORT Tab

A new Unexpended Balance report is now available for internal Grants Online users. The report is also available from the Organization profile page which is accessible via the “Search Award” function. (Ticket 26536)

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Ticket 28722 – Task Management Options for Help Desk Personnel

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Ticket 26469 – New Minimum Requirements Checklist

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Ticket 29953 – New SAC link on PO Checklist

NOTE: The SAC is not required for the three automatic waivers but is needed for the other five discretionary waivers. (See the corresponding guidance link.) There have been recent changes to the requirements for research grants that will be incorporated into a future release.

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Ticket 4622 – New “Search Applications” Screen

NOTE: Award Number, Proposal Number, and Project Title were the only parameters available on the old “Search Applications” screen. All of rest of the search parameters were added in this release.

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Ticket 4622 – New “Search Awards” Screen

NOTE: Award Number and Recipient Name were the only parameters available on the old “Search Awards” screen. Project Title and Principal Investigator Last Name were added in this release, along with a filter on Award Status.

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Ticket 12677 – PI Names in Award Search Results

NOTE: Display of PI name(s) is dependent upon recipient action to add them on the award during or after the “Manage Award Users” task that they receive after accepting an award. It cannot be done by the Federal Program Officer.

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Ticket 26535 – Gray boxes on Progress Report details screen indicate “display only” fields

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Ticket 27393 – FINAL Reports are indicated in “Search Report” results

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Ticket 28729 – SAC button removed when no SAC exists

Amendment WITH Special Award Conditions

Amendment WITHOUT Special Award Conditions

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Ticket 5096 – “UnAssign” Warning on Manage Award Personnel screen

NOTE: The warning message has been added for Authorized Representatives, Business/Finance Representatives, and Recipient Administrators. It is not needed for PI/Co-PI users because they are assigned to individual awards. Removing a PI from one award does not affect their assignment on other awards.

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Ticket 25393 – New Notification of Unexpended Funds during Closeout

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Ticket 26536 – New Unexpended Balances Report (Single Award)

Step 1:

Search for an Award and click on corresponding “Org_ID” next to the Award Number.

This will bring you to the organization’s Grants Online profile page.

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Ticket 26536 – New Unexpended Balances Report (Single Award)

Step 2:

Scroll to the bottom of the profile page and click on the button to run the report.

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Ticket 26536 – New Unexpended Balances Report (Multiple Awards)

NOTE: To run an Unexpended Balance Report on multiple awards use the new report available under the “Reports” tab.

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Ticket 26536 – New Unexpended Balances Report (Multiple Awards)

NOTE: Using the Reports Tab, several parameters are available to run the Unexpended Balances Report for a group of awards.

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Additional Resources

[email protected]

[email protected]

(301) 444-2112

(877) 662-2478 (1-877-NOAAGRT)

Grants Online PMO Website at www.ofa.noaa.gov/~grantsonline to Access:

Grants Online Training/Support Resources

Frequently Asked Questions

What’s New page

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