#  GMAS Release 1\_48 

 





December 14, 2018

 

 

##  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-dashboard).
- 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](/interfaculty-involvement).

###  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