[Flex] So much for our soft start in Research.gov!

[Sheila Clifford]

Thanks Karen -

I agree completely.  Perhaps the Fastlane person meant that you must 
/access/ proposal prep (and anything else) through Research.gov -- 
because we are certainly being dumped right back into Fastlane to 
prepare any type of proposal....  Sorry for adding to the confusion.

Another thing - I went in to Research.gov and verified all my PIs. For a 
few, the system said the password needed updating.  I did this - but 
didn't realize that the PI got an email from the NSF system saying their 
password had changed.  Some contacted Donna asking what was up.  
Fortunately, I had told her I did this...

If people verify/update their PIs in Fastlane, they might want to 
consider contacting the people whose passwords get changed.

Best Regards,
Sheila

On 3/28/2018 10:33 AM, Karen Schwamb wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm not sure how reliable the Fastlane help desk is these days - I 
> recently got some information that turned out to be wrong. They may 
> also have given Donna the wrong information about the timing for use 
> of research.gov for all but collaborative proposals starting March 26.
>
> Just wanted to pass along my research.gov login experience today --
>
> I know that I have an NSF proposal coming up, so went to research.gov 
> this morning to log in and complete the PI information verification - 
> that went fine.  I went to Prepare & Submit Proposals and received the 
> notice below.  There seems to be conflicting information out there 
> about the timing of the migration to the new system.  Looks like we 
> are still in the system preview phase according to this, and that we 
> don't submit our proposals through research.gov yet.
>
> If it is accurate, the attached timeline might be useful too.
>
> I never expected this confusion from the same folks that brought us 
> fastlane!
>
>
> On 3/26/2018 2:11 PM, Sheila Clifford wrote:
>> Dear All -
>>
>> Donna had a discussion with the Fastlane Helpdesk this morning, and it
>> seems that - as of today - we MUST now use Research.gov for NSF
>> submissions UNLESS they are collaborative proposals.  And - as of this
>> morning - it is taking up to 30min for Research.gov to dump you back to
>> Fastlane to work on a collaborative.
>>
>> Neither Donna nor I had received, or seen, a notice of this abrupt
>> change - sorry!
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Sheila
>>
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