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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

Cost Share and Subaward budgets are the only budgets in MyFunding that can be deleted if created in error or are no longer needed (see Figures 1 and 2). All other budgets in MyFunding (including subaccount budgets) cannot be deleted. However, these budgets can be excluded from a proposal budget by selecting ‘No’ to question 7 on the General Budget Information SmartForm (see Figure 3).

Figure 1. Cost Share Budget Workspace

If you receive an error when attaching a document to an SF424 related to the size of a PDF (Figure 1), it is because the attached document is not 8.5x11 inches in size.

If you are receiving this error:

An enhancement has been made to the MyFunding Budget Periods and Key Dates SmartForm.  The calculation for the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) internal deadlines now correctly incorporates Pitt holidays into the dates excluded from the OSP 4 business days submission deadline. (Figure 1).

Figure 1. Budget Periods and Key Dates

In response to user feedback, the ability to copy an agreement in MyRA is now available to editors listed on the agreement.

This activity is located on the left-hand side of the workspace (Figure 1). Once copied, the History will display a link to the new agreement (Figure 1: MTA00011506).

Figure 1.

A salary row for a ‘Staff Member To Be Determined’ can be added as a placeholder when creating a budget.

On the Personnel Cost Definition smartform, select + Add and then select ‘Staff Member To Be Determined’ (Figure 1).

Figure 1.

The PERIS™ Team has seen an increase in NIH errors due to duplicate titles in SF424 applications.

 This error occurs when the Descriptive Title on the SF424 is identical to another application already in the Commons (see Figure 1).

• Verify that all PDF attachments can be opened in Adobe before uploading the files in MyFunding.
• Check the document name for accuracy.