Cayuse SP Release Notes

Below is a history of changes, enhancements, and major bug fixes in Cayuse SP.

Cayuse SP v2.2.1 - 4/23/2012

Enhancements

  • New "Application Help" section on the Cayuse Research Suite "Welcome" screen includes a link to the Cayuse Support website and a link to supported browser information
  • Sum of allocated credit is now displayed at the top of the Investigators/Research Team page in the proposal record and the People tab of Award Administration.  Please note that entering allocated credit is optional.  It is not required to total 100%.
  • Person Months and Allocation of Credit % from a proposal record now carry forward automatically into a new award.
  • An alert is now displayed on the People tab of Award Administration when no Lead PI is named.
  • "Submitted to Sponsor" and "Not Funded" proposal statuses now trigger automated emails. New templates for these triggers have been added to the Email Admin template library.
  • Account numbers may now contain letters, numbers, underscores, hyphens and spaces.

Other Changes

  • Removed the following fields from the General Info page of the proposal record:
    • Sponsor Information > Address
    • Sponsor Information > Contact Phone
    • General Proposal Information > ARRA
    • General Proposal Information > Previous Acct/Fund Number
  • The existence of a paired 424 proposal (regardless of status) now provides a green check mark in the SP proposal record.  It is no longer necessary to set the status of the paired 424 proposal to "In Review."
  • Investigators/Research Team:
    • Total Calendar Months is now Person Months.
    • Person Months and Sponsored Effort % are now required to be entered on proposals and awards.  You may enter "0" (zero) if a particular figure does not apply.
  • Budget:
    • Cost Sharing sub-questions are now collapsed until you select "Yes."
    • Personnel/Space/Equipment sub-questions are now collapsed until you select "Yes."
  • Regulatory Compliance:
    • Research Subjects is now Regulatory Compliance.
    • Responses to sub-questions beneath Human Subjects and Animal Subjects are now required for research that involves human or animal subjects.
    • Only one reason may now be chosen in response to why the research team has not submitted an application for IRB/IACUC approval (either "Not required at proposal submission (JIT)" or "Submission is pending").
  • Application Abstract:  Abstract field is now required
  • Award Administration > General tab:  Proposal Type is now Type

Defect Resolution

  • Research Team members can no longer delete each other's award attachments.
  • Corrected query that caused attachments from one award to appear on an unrelated award
  • Searching by attachment for an award or project no longer returns duplicate results.
  • Begin and End dates are now preserved when saving a proposal and award record.
  • Resolved text alignment issue in Personnel/Space/Equipment text box on Budget screen
  • Edited the language in My Awards and Awards In My Dept to reflect the actual content displayed

Cayuse SP v2.2 - 11/7/2011

Reporting

  • We have narrowed the selection of reports in Cayuse SP to those that provide the most valuable data sets. Below are the reports you will find in this version. All other reports have been removed.
    • Proposals by Department (Any Investigator)
    • Proposals by Lead PI
    • Proposals by Sponsor Type
    • Awards by Lead Investigator
    • Awards by Department
    • Awards by Department and Sponsor Type
    • Projects by Department
    • Projects by Lead PI
    • Projects by Sponsor
  • Date picker labels are more descriptive and intuitive
  • Date ranges are no longer pre-populated when you open a report

Accounts

  • Added a red asterisk to all required fields
  • Relabeled Short Title as Account Title
  • Removed Technical Report Date, Final Report Date, and FROE Completed from Temp Accounts
  • F&A Rate is no longer required for Temp Accounts

Other Changes

  • Added a red asterisk to all required fields on the Budget page in the proposal record
  • Activity Code on the General Info page of the proposal record is no longer a required field
  • Legacy Number search on the Award Admin screen now accepts legacy award numbers in any format
  • Authorized users may now submit a Pre-Award Spending Request when the proposal status is "Submitted to Sponsor"

Defect Resolution

  • Project Amount in Award Dashboard > My Awards now calculates the sum of obligated awards on the project correctly.
  • Total Project Obligated on the Award Coversheet now calculates correctly when the Reporting Designation of the award changes.
  • Resolved communication issues between the Research Subjects page of the proposal record and the Compliance tab of Proposal Administration. The Compliance tab accurately and more clearly reflects human and animal subjects data entered into the proposal record.
  • Time stamps on status history, approval history, attachments, and other records now reflect your local time zone.
  • "Dept Authorized" or "Dept Rejected" are now logged in Status History when a proposal record is authorized or rejected.