SeRA Ironwood Release

The SeRA System Ironwood Release went live on May 21, 2020. This release was a shorter 5-week release which had some key features which for distributed users including:

Return of Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) Reports to SeRA

EDW Projects Report - report of sponsored projects based on the user's search criteria
EDW Proposals Report - report of proposed sponsored based on the user's search criteria
EDW Awards Report - report of of awarded sponsored projects based on the user's search criteria
Note: All reports are subject to the user's department owing org code authority/access

Expanded Transaction Reassignment Ability

Tasks can now be easily reassigned from the Transaction History section of the transaction home page
Users can now reassign any transactions within projects (SPOs) that they have either department-org code or SPO access to
Self-service reassignment. No request to central offices or help tickets needed.

Updated Approval Pages

The Proposal Summary section of Principal Investigator, Other Stanford Faculty, and Department approval screens received a new easier to review look
All of the approver pages regardless of approver role now have the the same appearance and function
Links to view the PDRF and Proposal Attachments were added within the Project Summary section

Resolved Issues

Resolved delay with creation of Central Office Request transactions
Fixed the Budget Details date auto-fill function. The budget period start and end dates fields are once again populating when the "Auto Fill" button is clicked
Fixed issue where Other Support report would double the project awarded amount
Added checks to make sure duplicate tasks are not created when a user clicks a link twice
Updated COVID-19 instruction text to conditionally display when COVID-19 was selected under the Disease-related Research of the PDRF Research Focus section

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