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SmartSimple's January 2016 Upgrade Features and Highlights

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To get the New Year started on the right foot, the SmartSimple team is pleased to bring you our first round of system upgrades for 2016. This cycle, we’re focused on improving the flexibility of your system. We’ve made it easier for you to control your screen views, customize batch update buttons and added new List View options. This upgrade goes live on Thursday, January 28th. Maximize and Restore Button on Title Bar - Global System Feature Now you can maximize sections in Arcadia X to better focus on the data and tasks you need to accomplish. This gives you more control to see your information, your way. Customizable Batch Update Options - On-Demand Feature This feature offers the ability to create multiple unique batch update buttons, each having its own discrete batch function. For example, Batch Approve Status, Batch Change Manager and so on. This means System Administrators have the ability to make customizable batch update buttons available to users based on th

Why SmartSimple's form creation process is better than other grants management systems

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Creating forms, whether they be grants applications or funding status reports, within any database system is easy. Just as long as everyone is meant to see and fill in the same fields on the same form. However, in the world of grants and research management, this is not the reality. Grant seekers need to see one version of the application form when they apply for funding. Staff need to see additional fields in their version (in the old paper-based world this would be labelled “for office use only”). Then, of course, additional fields are needed for the reviewer that may not contain all the visible fields that staff need to see and use. Add post-award reporting forms, site visit forms and payment request forms to the mix and you’ve got a lot of work ahead of you. It’s all about resource efficiency This becomes a full-time job for someone just to develop, design and update all these applications if you’re using what’s known as a form-based system. A form-based system uses st