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Using NSF FastLane
Detailed User Guide
For more detailed information on how to use FastLane, follow this link to the FastLane Proposal Preparation and Submission Guide (2MB PDF File)
Using Adobe Acrobat Reader for Printing and Viewing
Some FastLane applications provide the capability to download PDF forms
for printing and viewing. In most cases this provides the ability to print
official NSF forms at your location. In order to use this feature, Adobe
Reader must be installed on your computer
and the browser's helper application for file type "application/pdf"
must be configured. The Reader can be obtained free of charge from this
location: Free Software
From Adobe
If you encounter problems downloading Adobe Reader or configuring your
Browser to launch Adobe Reader from within FastLane select:
Downloading Adobe Reader and
Configuring your browser to launch Adobe Reader
Use of SSNs for Organizational Management of FastLane
NSF has decided to use the
Social Security Number (SSN) to uniquely
identify individuals as registered users of the FastLane projects.
Characters Supported by FastLane
Because FastLane is a multiplatform application, only lower ASCII characters
should be used when entering data into web text blocks. Lower ASCII
characters are those in the 00 - 127 range. Upper ASCII characters should
NOT be used, as they could translate to a different character or no
character at all on other platforms. The Latin1 character set should
be used when using FastLane applications. PDF files can contain Upper
ASCII characters as well as pictures, graphs, and charts.
Recommended Client Capabilities
NSF's World Wide Web applications that require data entry require a
Web browser that supports Forms. However, when using NSF
applications that require significant data entry, it is highly recommended
that a Web browser that supports the following features be used:
- support for preformatted input fields (highly desirable, otherwise input
fields will not be aligned on the form)
- cut and paste into text fields
- tabbing between fields
- support for multiple submit buttons
Clients that provide these capabilities.
Netscape is copyrighted by Netscape Communications Corporation.
Microsoft Internet Explorer is copyrighted by Microsoft Corporation.
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