The Control Panel is the proposal submission homepage for a PI. Should the information in this page be added to the instructions used by the PI?
Start a New Proposal: Directs PI to a page where they choose among active calls to respond to. Clicking 'Start' on that page creates a new pre-proposal record and accompanying Proposal ID.
Call: A proposal's parent call.
Start Date: The start date of funding for this proposal.
Title: The title of this proposal.
Proposal ID: This ID is a concatenation of the PI's last name and a random four-digit number. This ID accompanies the proposal throughout the proposal process and through its lifespan as a funded project. Files and folders generated in the eSG system that relate solely to this proposal/project use this ID as their naming scheme.
Status: This reflects the progress of the proposal, and there are five sequential steps:
Download: Compiled pre-proposals and full proposals that are uploaded by the eSG Administrator via FMP appear here.