Effortless Facts - FCR

August 2019

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ECC certification, PI effort allocation, and SPAR employee error messages.

We have completed the University’s first certification period using ECC. Although we identified and resolved a few ‘bugs’, overall, the transition appeared to go relatively smoothly. More importantly, we achieved 100% certification compliance! Thank you for the contributions you made to realize this success!

In accordance with the University’s Effort Reporting/Certification policy, PIs are required to devote some level of effort to all active awards. At a minimum, their effort allocation should reflect the time necessary to oversee all aspects of the work. Any effort recognized in excess of the sponsor budget must be cost shared to an institutional account using the ‘O’ cost share code.

When querying an employee in SPAR, you may get the following error message:

SPAR message

If you have had access to this employee’s SPAR in the past, one of the scenarios below will explain the change:

  • Your SPAR role has been modified by your administrator to reduce your access to SPARs in
    this area.
  • The employee has transferred to another department outside of your scope of access. The former department loses access when the Employee Record (ER) has been processed recognizing the transfer.
  • Your prior access to the employee was via a Subset relationship. If the employee or the SPAR Administrator who had granted you the Subset access has transferred or terminated, your Subset relationship to this employee has been deleted. You must contact the SPAR Administrator of the employee’s department to request a new Subset relationship based on your business need.