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To manage your resource allocation processes, there is a minimum set of data that XRAS needs to know. At the moment, you will need to provide some of this information to the XRAS team, but we are working to provide interfaces that will allow you to enter and edit these values. You will find most of these interfaces by selecting “Client Settings” under the XRAS gear menu.

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Data Provided via the XRAS Team

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  • Initial Allocation Administrator (required). When first configuring XRAS, you must designate someone from your organization to be an Allocation Admin. Once that person has been given administrative access to XRAS Admin, they can grant admin access to others.

  • Allocations Process and Client information (required). Your institution’s name; your preferred abbreviation for your institution; your institution’s logo; your institution’s contact help email. The abbreviation is displayed on the Submit, Review, and Admin interfaces and used in the default URLs (https://submit-orgAbbrev.xras.org, https://review-orgAbbrev.xras.org, https://admin-orgAbbrev.xras.org). Even if hosting your own submit interface, we will still create and host the Review and Admin sites for you.

  • Allocation Process Manager (required for Notifications). An email address or email list to which XRAS will send notifications targeted for your site’s allocation administrators.

  • Action Types. The By default, XRAS will include the standard set of actions with which users make requests or manage their allocations. XRAS currently recognizes new and renewal requests as well as transfer, extension, supplement, appeal, and advance actions, as well as actions to allow researchers to submit progress reports and final reports.  Fields of Science. If Any desired customization to the display names of these actions, as well as additional optional actions, should be discussed with the XRAS team.

  • Fields of Science. If your institution requires selecting a primary and, optionally, a secondary field of science when submitting a project allocation request, you can provide a custom list of fields and their abbreviations.Default resource reviewers. You can configure XRAS to speed up the review process of an allocation request by defining default reviewers for requests asking for a given resource. If you are interested in this feature, please contact at allocations@access-ci.org. After a final submission, designated resource default reviewers are automatically assigned to those submissions that requested those particular resources. These reviewers are notified by email when they receive assignmentsof fields and their abbreviations.

Client Settings

The following settings can be customized to your site’s preferences by you or another XRAS Admin. These features are available under the XRAS gear menu by selecting “Client Settings.” Further customization can be managed via the Rules interfaces

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Finally, you must ensure that your resource(s) in the Cyberinfrastructure Description Repository (CIDeR) have a public page or other persistent identifier associated with them.

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Available Resources. For each allocation type, you must specify which of your resources can be requested in opportunities of that type. To associate resources with a given allocation type, you must configure those settings in the Cyberinfrastructure Description Repository (CIDeR). See the CIDeR appendix for instructions. At any time, you can check which resources are being offered as part of an allocation type by using the Available Resources tab on the Allocation Type page.

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You can specify an optional allocations policy documentation page that you would like to be visible to your allocation reviewers in the XRAS Review UI. 

Meeting Review Tags

The optional tags that are available for use in the Meeting UI App of XRAS Review are controlled via this tool. You can add new tags and activate /inactive or inactivate tags that are already defined. You can define tags to help manage the handling of requests during a meeting. For example, you might define tags for “approved in full” or “rejected” to help designate these outcomes quickly, instead of typing out notes.

Reviewer Agreement

The Reviewer Agreement tool allows you to create an Agreement that Reviewers will be required to agree to when logging into XRAS Review. They will be unable to use Review until they check the “I agree” checkbox.

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