The next GMAS release will be available Monday, April 9, 2018. GMAS will be unavailable starting at 7 p.m. EST on Friday, April 6, 2018 through the start of business at 8 a.m.EST Monday, April 9, 2018.
The release includes two major enhancements: Financial Invoicing and Reporting Strategic Transition (FIRST) and Subrecipient Monitoring.
Financial Invoicing and Reporting Strategic Transition (FIRST)
A financial report dashboard has been added from the GMAS homepage and:
- Serves as the main working space for the Research Finance team in the Office for Sponsored Programs (OSP)
- Provides a view into all financial deliverables that are ready to be processed or are in process
- Includes functionality for bulk approving standard Harvard University invoice templates
The Create Report Screen and the Financial Report List Screen have been converted and enhanced.
Workflow has been built into all financial deliverables to indicate where in the process a deliverable is, and who is working on it.New functionality has been created to support automatic generation of templates and emailing of deliverables through GMAS
Subrecipient Monitoring
A new risk assessments panel has been added to the external organization homepage and:
- New assessments can be added
- A history of assessments is viewable by expanding the panel
Other enhancements
Other enhancements and bug fixes in this release include:
- Turned on cost-sharing to-do's for T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School
- Changed the language "Is a Subcontract plan needed" to "Small Business Subcontracting Plan?" in the segment revision and on the additional award information screen
- Removed the sentence and broken link at the top of Research team details screen: "GMAS now tracks effort percentages for research team members. See here for more information about these changes."
- Removed the two Primate Center options from the account campus location drop-down (accounts with this selection prior to the change will retain their value)
- Resolved an issue where users were receiving a 404 error screen after using the breadcrumbs and then trying to navigate to an edit screen
- Corrected the Delete button on the Notices screen to properly read "Delete" instead of "Decline"
- Added the disable tool-tips back to the Edit GL budget buttons on the accounts list screen
- Fixed an issue where selecting Revise to resubmit was giving a screen error, but still created a new request
- Fixed an issue where proposals could not be deleted if there were associated subagreements (subagreement needs to be deleted first)
- Corrected the Action Memo to show pending sub agreements correctly
- Resolved an issue that was preventing people from being added to Standing teams
- Corrected an issue on the pre-conversion person look-up where apostrophes were resulting in incorrect results
- Corrected search results on the post-conversion person look-up to sort by last name, then first name, then middle
- Fixed an issue where when opening search results in multiple tabs, some tabs would result in an error message
For more information about the GMAS release, visit the GMAS Release 1_46 page, or email contactgmas@harvard.edu.