You have reached the final step. Select File Submit Project in the menu bar to submit your project to the ALMA archive. You and all your Co-Is should receive a confirmation e-mail after each proposal submission. Once you have submitted, the Unsubmitted Proposal label in the blue proposal status bar (see Fig. 3.12) will be replaced by a red Submitted label (see Fig. 3.13). This indicates that the proposal has been stored in the ALMA archive and assigned the Project Code listed in the top-level overview panel of your proposal. You are encouraged to save your project to disk after submission in order to ensure that any future updates are made on the submitted version.
You can make changes and re-submit your Submitted proposal until the deadline; however any re-submission will overwrite the previous version of the proposal stored in the archive. Proposals from Cycle 0 retrieved from the archive and edited will be assigned a new project code upon submission.
Saving your project to disk will produce a file in the OT's native .aot format, which can be re-opened and edited using any version of the OT. It contains all the information on your project, including .pdf attachments, and can be conveniently sent e.g. to Co-I's for editing. You may also want to save your project in .pdf format. A .pdf summary including an overview page, all supporting material and technical details of the Science Goals can be created using Tool Generate a PDF of Whole Proposal. You will be asked to save the .pdf file to disk before opening or viewing it. In order to get an on-screen printable quick view of parts of your proposal (e.g. a Science Goal, or the proposal summary) click on the relevant node in the project tree and select Tool Show printable Summary of ....
For more detailed information on the ALMA OT and the technical capabilities in Cycle 1 you are invited to consult the documentation available on the Science Portal. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to submit a ticket to the ALMA Helpdesk, also accessible from the Science Portal.