#  GMAS March 2021 Release 

 





March 09, 2021

 

 

 The GMAS March 2021 release will be available as of the start of business on Friday, March 26, 2021. This release includes a few enhancements, some minor bug fixes, and some technical changes.

 **The enhancements include:**

- Displaying preferred name (if available) on the GMAS welcome screen
- Removal of the link for the legacy Foreign/Overseas approval (replaced by the new international collaboration and activities approval)
- Removal of the ability to enter final figures when there is an open segment revision
- Deleting a request with associated OAIR approvals will now remove those approvals from the OAIR system
- Unliquidated obligations (specifically for federal training grant projects) can now be captured in GMAS
- For federal projects with the “Letter of credit” payment method, the “Agency LOC number” can now be overridden on an individual account in the segment

 **The bug fixes include:**

- OAIR approvals in status of “Done” will no longer appear on the segment home “Needed approvals” panel
- Correction of an issue where the “Inter-Faculty Involvement” (IFI) request was not able to be locked and routed for approval when attempting to add IFI folks to the research team
- Correction if an issue where new requests on projects that had changed tubs/orgs from the original proposal were being created with the previous tub/org

 **The technical changes include:**

 Update to GMAS/HURON people data API

- An updated record will be passed if the department a person belongs to remains unchanged, but the department description is updated
- A student's school code now appears in the faculty code column to help streamline how the data's consumed by HURON
- Implementation of a retry option when we connect to IDDB server to consume files, to avoid job failures due to connectivity issues on the initial try

 FixVersion 1\_56.03



 

 

 



 

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