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April 2016

Electronic Submission Tracking and Reporting (ESTR)* - Recording Ancillary Review

April 14, 2016

Any department or individual providing an ancillary review to the IRB is now encouraged to use ESTR to record these decisions. There are many types of Ancillary reviews (such as faculty sponsor, department reviewer, IT Security, financial conflict of interest disclosure, etc) and some are required by Harvard policy. Using ESTR to record ancillary review also allows reviewers to provide feedback, approval, and/or attach documentation on a submission in parallel with the IRB review.   

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HUBS Release 3.6 on May 21, Overnight Process Delays in April

April 14, 2016

HUBS Release 3.6 is on its way and it includes a variety of enhancements and defect corrections. Many of the changes in this release are for utilities and eliminate some of the pain points experienced by both users and HUBS Administrators alike. A couple of the release highlights are listed here:

    • The number of files that can be uploaded at one time in the Generic File Upload process has been increased from one to four files.
    • Enhancements have been made to overnight processes to improve performance and shorten the overall completion time of...
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    my.harvard Updates and Outage

    April 14, 2016

    Program Updates: 

    Last month, course data for all Wave 2 schools (GSD, HGSE, HKS, and Chan) were successfully converted into an administrative production space - a major milestone toward the release of the course catalog to students, faculty, staff, and the public in June 2016! The completion of this milestone means that administrators at all Wave 2 schools are now able to work behind the scenes in my.harvard to build next year’s course catalog. 

    Additionally, we have made great progress towards the July 2016 release of an enhanced student...

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    CPATH supports Firefox beginning April 25th

    April 14, 2016

    Beginning on Monday, April 25th, CPATH users will be able to use the Firefox browser with the CPATH application.

    Please contact the IT Help Desk (617-495-7777 or ithelp@harvard.edu) for CPATH technical matters or CAPS/HPPM with business issues/questions. User feedback on the CPATH and CAPS applications is always appreciated.

    Upcoming April System Outages for Oracle Financials Systems - FINDINI 4.0.9 Release

    April 14, 2016

    The April 2016 FINDINI 4.0.9 release will be available to users on Monday April 25, 2016. The key features included in this release are: 

    • Integrating the new Concur Travel and Expense system with the Oracle General Ledger & PeopleSoft. Processes include:
      • Oracle GL COA List Import  to Concur T&E application
      • Chart of Accounts Validator modification to dynamically insert valid code combos
      • Oracle GL file created from import of Concur T&E Standard Accounting Extract data dump
      • PeopleSoft Employee Interface...
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    Modernization of Financial Reporting Project: User Outreach for Detail Listing Underway and Grants Management Update

    April 14, 2016

    DETAIL LISTING OUTREACH
    The Modernization of Financial Reporting Project is currently designing the future-state Detail Listing in Oracle Business Intelligence in partnership with our business owners on the Finance Working Group and Detail Listing Subcommittee. As part of this effort we have...

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    GMAS 2.0 April Release Updates

    April 14, 2016

    GMAS 2.0 Project had a release on Monday, April 11, 2016. A summary of the changes are listed below. Visit our full release notes for more details. 

    The April release focused on delivering necessary system upgrades to support System to System functionality. GMAS released 5 new forms in support of the NIH FORMS-D transition:

    • PHS 398 Research Plan
    • PHS 398 Cover Page Supplement...
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    PeopleSoft Release 44: Outage Information

    April 14, 2016

    Due to HR Release 44.0, PeopleSoft and ASPIRE transmissions to PeopleSoft will be unavailable starting on Friday, April 15th at 5:00pm until Monday, April 18th at 8:00am.

    There is no need for users to clear their internet cache with this release, as this release does not include a PeopleTools upgrade.