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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

Users can update the Department Administrator, Editors, and Readers on Funding Proposals (FP) by using the ‘Manage Access’

As a reminder, you do not need to wait until a contracting party is added to MyRA to complete and submit Agreements . When you select 'Pending' for the contracting party (Figure 1), the agreement will be automatically updated when the new contracting party is available.

Figure 1.  Contracting Party Information Workspace

In response to user feedback, notifications for a declined Award Modification have been updated to include editors listed on the Award and the OSP Specialist (Figure 1).  

Note:  Principal Investigators will not receive these notifications even if they are also listed as an editor.

Figure 1. Notice:  Award Modification Declined

You may need to create an Amendment for an Agreement in MyRA for a variety of reasons - time extension, change in materials/data, change in PI, etc. To create an Amendment, the Agreement must be in ‘Active’ state and with no other pending Amendments.

Continuations are initially created from an award in the Award Workspace. Once the set-up process is complete, the Continuation will be located in the MyFunding tab, and in the My Inbox tab of the user who created the record (see Figures 1 & 2).

Figure 1. MyFunding Tab

In response to user feedback, notifications for any requested changes on an Award Modification have been updated to include editors listed on the Award as well as the OSP Specialist (Figure 1).  

Note:  Principal Investigators will not receive these notifications even if they are also listed as an editor.

Figure 1 – Award Modification Notice

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

On an Award in MyFunding, an optional activity called Manage Deliverables (Figure 1) is available.  With this activity, a list of deliverables can be identified with a specific due date and frequency for each.

The “Withdraw” activity in MyRA is only available to principal investigators (PIs) or their proxies. If the activity is unavailable to you (Figure 1) , please contact myrahelp@pitt.edu to withdraw agreements or contact your Office of Sponsored Programs specialist to discard agreements  that are currently in review. 

Figure 1.  Withdraw Activity on Agreement Workspace