#  GMAS Release 1\_51 

 





September 07, 2019

 

 

 The September 2019 GMAS release will be available on Monday September 9, 2019.

###  Changes to Requests

- Converted the account list for requests to the new GMAS user interface 
    - New screen for create/edit shell accounts, including an autocomplete lookup for root
    - Retired functions to create multiple accounts at once
- Converted the screen to capture request submission 
    - Removed unneeded fields for "Date received" and "Date returned to department", simplified data entry
- Converted the confirmation screen for "Retract request"
- Converted the screen to answer yes/no approval attributes
- Added IDC rates and basis to the budget view on the proposal home page
- New shell accounts created by the system will now automatically default the root for the PI or Mentor (main, subagreement, and IFI accounts)

###  Changes to Approvals

- Converted the view and edit for the foreign/overseas approval, added "Done" and "Needed" status as new options
- Updated and simplified approval generation rules for all non-person approvals 
    - All places in GMAS that generate approvals now follow the same rules (all requests and segment revision)
- Retired GMAS to-dos for Human Subjects IRB, IACUC, and Admin salaries approvals (these to-dos appeared in the GMAS to-do list for PIs, no emails were ever sent)

###  Changes to Financial Deliverables

- Deliverables with multiple email recipients will now send as one email to all recipients
- Added a warning message when revising a deliverable that has paid receivables
- Fixed an issue where the automatic overhead adjustment was not including an adjustment comment
- Fixed an issue where the automatic overspent adjustment could be a positive instead of negative amount
- Fixed an issue where deliverables associated to multiple receivables were duplicated in the list

###  Other changes

- Added support for "Billing agreements" 
    - Added a project type option for new proposals. This project type will not generate any person approvals (Conflict of interest, Participation agreement)
    - Added a funding instrument option in segment revision. This will force the fund type to be NE
- Added department administrators to the recipient list for "Notice logged" emails
- Added two new discipline codes for "Materials Science" and "Natural Resources and Conservation". "Medical (Clinical)" has been updated to be "Health Sciences"
- Created backend support to identify university wide standing teams that will automatically stay up to date when new orgs are added
- Added sorting to the category column on the documents screen
- Removed the <Record subagreement invoices> button from the account financials page. This function was retired in a previous release
- Refactored action memo generation code to improve performance

###  Changes to system interfaces

- Updated to logic for the Non-federal interest posting process 
    - Any NE funds with a credit balance but no active accounts will still post interest to default Tub-level orgs
    - Object code 4531 is now included in the fund balance calculation
- Updated the disable process - accounts that fail will now be set back to "Enabled" instead of "Ready to disable". This will allow the accounts to be edited if needed.

###  Technical changes

- Updated the PrimeFaces UI library to version 7.0
- Added HUID as a data element when loading root data from the Harvard Data Warehouse
- Added automatic retry for interfaces using sftp to help prevent connection failures