As with virtually all FastLane functions, the password reset function is available all the time. Therefore, users no longer need to wait to contact the FastLane Help Desk or their Sponsored Research Office. The change is immediate. Name changes cannot be performed online. PI's can now assign their Revised Proposal Budgets a PIN which can be used by other FastLane users to prepare and forward the revised proposal budget to the PI's Sponsored Research Office.
Users can now add senior personnel to their revised proposal budgets.
Based upon input from program officers, the user screens will now have a different look and feel. The new screens in panel review include tabs which allow the selection of action type and a sort feature that will allow the user to sort proposals via a variety of column headers. Reviewer type has been added as a column header. Both systems now let reviewers download and save a proposal as a PDF file to their computer without first needing to view the proposal with Adobe Acrobat. The capability for panelists to be able to bundle together multiple proposals for download, with options for file compressing, will be added later this year.