Applications 4 cannot be larger than If the application exceeds 1.2GB, the applicant will receive the 1.2GB following error message from eRA Commons: 5 application did not follow the agency-specific size limit of “The 1.2 GB. Please resize the application to be no larger than 1.2GB before submitting.” 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: 6 must exist. Funding Opportunity Announcement number does not “The exist.” 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 7 Commons: <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 8 requirement: error message from eRA Commons: PDF attachments cannot be {attachment} attachment was empty. PDF attachments “The empty (0 bytes). 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 .” 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 requirement: error message from eRA Commons: 9 PDF attachments cannot <attachment> attachment contained formatting or features “The have Meta data missing, not currently supported by NIH: <condition returned>. Help with cannot be encrypted, PDF attachments can be found at .” password protected or secured documents.
4 5 Applications cannot be larger than 1.2GB If the application exceeds 1.2GB, the applicant will receive the following error message from eRA Commons: “The application did not follow the agency-specific size limit of 1.2 GB. Please resize the application to be no larger than 1.2GB before submitting.” 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 exist.” 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 .”
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