Release to FOA

Overview

The process to manually release one or more obligation to FOA is available through the Obligation Tab. 

 

Prerequisites

A user must be authorized to manually release obligations to FOA.

 

Release to FOA

To manually release an obligation to FOA:

• Search for and select a contract from the Select Contract drop-down menu.

• Navigate to the Obligations Tab.

• Click on the Release to FOA Button.

• A new pop-up window is displayed.

  

  • Check the boxes associated with obligations to mark them for release.

  • Click on the Release Button

• Note that the Obligation list and Released to FOA fields will populate with the current date, indicating that the selected obligations have been released to FOA.

 

Notes

• An obligation cannot be released if another obligation associated with the same appropriation key is still pending FOA approval.

• Positive and negative obligation transactions cannot be included in the same release to FOA.

• An authorized user can exclude authorizations from the release of an obligation by unchecking the "Include with Release" box. This can only be done when the obligation transaction status is "Pending Change." Published authorization transactions excluded from release to FOA will automatically be added to a future obligation transaction to ensure the information is communicated to FOA.

• Users are prevented from saving changes to a system item to which changes have already been made. This prevents concurrency errors.