The Funding 5 Opportunity If you enter an FOA number that does not exist, the applicant will Announcement (FOA) number receive the following error message from eRA Commons: must exist. 6 Funding Opportunity Announcement number does not “The All documents 6 and attachments If you submit attachments which are not in PDF format, the must be in PDF format. applicant will receive the following error message from eRA Commons: 7 <attachment> attachment is not in PDF format. All “The attachments must be provided to the agency in PDF format with a .pdf extension. Help with PDF attachments can be found at .” All attachments 7 should comply with If you submit attachments which do not comply with the stated the following formatting formatting requirement, the applicant will receive the following requirement: error message from eRA Commons: 8 PDF attachments cannot be {attachment} attachment was empty. PDF attachments “The cannot be empty, password protected or encrypted. Please empty (0 bytes). submit a changed/corrected application with the correct PDF attachment. Help with PDF attachments can be found at .” All attachments 8 should comply with If you submit attachments which do not comply with the stated the following formatting formatting requirement, the applicant will receive the following 9 requirement: error message from eRA Commons: PDF attachments cannot <attachment> attachment contained formatting or features “The not currently supported by NIH: <condition returned>. Help with have Meta data missing, PDF attachments can be found at .” cannot be encrypted, password protected or secured documents. All attachments 9 should comply with If you submit attachments that do not comply with the stated the following formatting formatting requirement, the applicant will receive the following requirement: error message from eRA Commons: Size of PDF attachments <file> cannot be larger than U.S. standard letter 10 “Filename cannot be larger than 8.5 x size of 8.5 x 11 inches. See the PDF guidelines at 11 inches (horizontally or vertically). [Note: It is recommended that you limit the size of attachments to 35 MB.]
5 6 The Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) number must exist. If you enter an FOA number that does not exist, the applicant will receive the following error message from eRA Commons: “The Funding Opportunity Announcement number does not 6 7 All documents and attachments must be in PDF format. If you submit attachments which are not in PDF format, the applicant will receive the following error message from eRA Commons: “The <attachment> attachment is not in PDF format. All attachments must be provided to the agency in PDF format with a .pdf extension. Help with PDF attachments can be found at .” 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 size of 8.5 x 11 inches. See the PDF guidelines at
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