Inviting an Agency to Join an SA

Staff directors, staff users, or the examiner in charge (EIC) from the lead agency can invite another agency in SES to join a supervisory activity (SA).

About this task

Note: To add an agency, that agency must have at least one active staff director in SES. If the target agency does not have a user assigned a Staff Director user role, you will receive a message stating the agency cannot be added to the SA.
Note: You cannot invite other agencies to join a leveraged SA (that is, with Scope Type set to Leveraged).
Note: You cannot invite an agency that has an outstanding request to join the same SA.

Invitations to other agencies remain active until the SA enters the Close Out milestone.

The Invite Agencies command is avaialable on the SA Summary and Related Actions tabs.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to your supervisory activity.

    Supervisory Activities button on the Main Menu
  2. Search for and select the SA ID you would like to access.

    Supervisory Activities button on the Main Menu

    supervisory activity ID
  3. Click Invite Agencies.

    Screen capture of the Invite Agencies menu command button
    The Invite Agencies pane is displayed.

    Screen capture of the Invite Agencies screen
  4. Begin typing any part of an agency name, then select the name of the desired agency from the list.

    Screen capture showing the list of agency names matching the text typed in the Agency field
  5. To add another agency, click Add Agency and repeat step 4. Repeat until all desired agencies are selected.

    Screen capture of the Add Agency command.
    Each agency you select is added to the list. To remove an agency, click the red "X".

    Screen capture of the list of agencies to be invited to the SA
  6. Type any additional information in the Comments field.
  7. Click Invite Agencies.

    Screen capture of the Invite Agencies button.

Results

An email including your comments is sent to the staff directors at each listed agency, inviting them to join the SA.