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Validate and submit your project

By clicking on Menu Validate or the corresponding tick icon in the toolbar you can check whether the project contains any setup errors (see Fig. 3.12). Successful validation is required before submitting a project. Warnings are for your attention and should be double-checked, but they do not prevent you from submitting a technically sound proposal. Double-clicking on an error/warning message will take you to the relevant Science Goal, so that you can easily identify and correct the problem. If all is well, the Feedback pane will report ``No problems found'' (Fig. 3.13). Your project is now ready to be submitted!

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Image Warning-icon-hi Before submitting your project, you should check whether any of your Science Goals make use of non-standard modes. Non-standard modes require manual intervention during data reduction and will be allocated up to a maximum of 25% of the available observing time. You can see which, if any, of your Science Goals use non-standard modes on the Proposal summary sheet. Non-standard modes will also trigger a validation warning, and include long baselines, full polarisation observations and bands 8, 9, and 10, among other things (see Appendix A of the Proposers Guide for a complete list). Since it is expected that observing time for these modes will be more competitive than for standard observations you should ensure that you did not inadvertently trigger a non-standard mode.
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To submit your project to the ALMA archive, select File Submit Project in the menu bar. You and all of 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 will be replaced by a red Submitted label. 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 updates are made on the submitted version.

You can make changes and re-submit your Submitted proposal until the deadline; any re-submission will overwrite the previous version of the proposal stored in the archive. If you want to edit the proposal and then submit it as a new project you need to work with an unsubmitted version of the proposal that has not yet been assigned a project code.

For more detailed information on the ALMA OT and the technical capabilities in Cycle 3 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.

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The ALMA OT Team, 2016 Aug 23