All attachments 7 should comply If you submit attachments which do not comply with the with the following formatting stated formatting requirement, the applicant will receive the 8 requirement: following error message from eRA Commons: PDF attachments cannot {attachment} attachment was empty. PDF “The attachments cannot be empty, password protected or be empty (0 bytes). encrypted. Please submit a changed/corrected application with the correct PDF attachment. Help with PDF attachments can be found at .” All attachments 8 should comply If you submit attachments which do not comply with the with the following formatting stated formatting requirement, the applicant will receive the 9 requirement: following error message from eRA Commons: PDF attachments cannot <attachment> attachment contained formatting or “The features not currently supported by NIH: <condition have Meta data missing, cannot be encrypted, returned>. Help with PDF attachments can be found at .” password protected or secured documents. All attachments 9 should comply If you submit attachments that do not comply with the with the following formatting stated formatting requirement, the applicant will receive the requirement: following error message from eRA Commons: 10 Size of PDF attachments <file> cannot be larger than U.S. Standard letter “Filename paper size of 8.5 x 11 inches. See the PDF guidelines at for cannot be larger than 8.5 additional information.” x 11 inches (horizontally or vertically). [Note: It is recommended that you limit the size of attachments to 35 MB.] All attachments 1 should comply If you submit attachments which do not comply with the with the following formatting stated formatting requirement, the applicant will receive the requirement: following error message from eRA Commons: 11 PDF attachments should <attachment> attachment filename is invalid. “The filenames may only include the following characters: A-Z, have a valid file name. a-z, 0-9, underscore (_), hyphen (-), space, or period. No Valid file names must
7 8 All attachments should comply with the following formatting requirement: PDF attachments cannot be empty (0 bytes). If you submit attachments which do not comply with the stated formatting requirement, the applicant will receive the following error message from eRA Commons: “The {attachment} attachment was empty. PDF attachments cannot be empty, password protected or encrypted. Please submit a changed/corrected application with the correct PDF attachment. Help with PDF attachments can be found at .” 8 9 All attachments should comply with the following formatting requirement: PDF attachments cannot have Meta data missing, cannot be encrypted, password protected or secured documents. If you submit attachments which do not comply with the stated formatting requirement, the applicant will receive the following error message from eRA Commons: “The <attachment> attachment contained formatting or features not currently supported by NIH: <condition returned>. Help with PDF attachments can be found at .” 9 10 All attachments should comply with the following formatting requirement: Size of PDF attachments cannot be larger than 8.5 x 11 inches (horizontally or vertically). [Note: It is recommended that you limit the size of attachments to 35 MB.] If you submit attachments that do not comply with the stated formatting requirement, the applicant will receive the following error message from eRA Commons: “Filename <file> cannot be larger than U.S. Standard letter paper size of 8.5 x 11 inches. See the PDF guidelines at for additional information.” 11 All attachments should comply with the following formatting requirement: PDF attachments should have a valid file name. Valid file names must If you submit attachments which do not comply with the stated formatting requirement, the applicant will receive the following error message from eRA Commons: “The <attachment> attachment filename is invalid. filenames may only include the following characters: A-Z, a-z, 0-9, underscore (_), hyphen (-), space, or period. No 1
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