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As a reminder, contacting the correct person in the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) will ensure that questions related to MyFunding are handled quickly and efficiently. 

The Department Administrator listed on funding proposals and awards can be updated by using the ‘Manage Access’ activity (see Figures 1 & 2).

Only individuals listed with edit rights can manage the access of others on funding proposals or awards. The activity is available in all states (for example Active, Department Review, or Specialist Review).

In response to the new U.S.

As a reminder, when you receive a request for clarification from the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) for a MyRA agreement, please use ‘Submit Changes’ (Figure 1) as soon as the requested information has been provided.

OSP is unable to proceed with processing, reviewing, or negotiating the agreement while it is in ‘Clarification Requested’ state.

Federal sponsors are updating frequently funding opportunity packages, therefore, please ensure that the correct and most up-to-date Opportunity ID is being selected on the Submission Information Smartform for the application. If an incorrect or outdated Opportunity ID is selected, the application may be rejected with errors upon submission.

For example, opportunities using FORMS-I may have been updated to FORMS-I-REVISED.

To grant access to an SF-424 application, click ‘Assign Editors and Readers’ on the Workspace left side menu (Figure 1).  Assign either a Project Reader or Editor to the SF-424 application by searching for the name to add and then click ‘OK’ (Figure 2).

Figure 1: SF-242 Workspace

In response to the new federal requirements regarding Dual Use Research of Concern, MyFunding has been updated to include three new questions on the Compliance Review SmartForm (Figure 1).

Figure 1: Compliance Review SmartForm

Users can update the Department Administrator, Editors, and Readers on Funding Proposals (FP) by using the ‘Manage Access’ activity from the menu on the left (Figure 1). Only those individuals listed on the FP as Principal Investigator, Specialist, Department Administrator, or Team Member with Edit Rights can manage the access of others on the FP (Figure 2).

Figure 1. Manage Access’ Activity in the FP Workspace

The PERIS™ Team uses Salesforce as the platform for managing MyFunding and MyRA inquiries. Therefore, always send a new email to peristeam@pitt.edu (MyFunding) or myrahelp@pitt.edu (MyRA) when help is requested, so that the team can respond and resolve inquiries as quickly as possible.   Do not reply to a prior request for a new inquiry. 

An increase in PERIS™ help tickets over the last few weeks has been related to special characters () being inadvertently entered into budgets and other SmartForm fields by pasting from other documents.  When a special character is entered, you will receive an error message (Figure 1) and be unable to proceed with the proposal unt