Submitting Your SB

Once everything is in order, when you are within your time limits and no errors remain, you can submit your SB schedule using the third tab on the SB page (click on the SB name and select the "Validate & Submit" tab page). It will send the information to the relevant places within EVLA operations and show you a message to that effect. All you need to do now is keep your fingers crossed... Note that you do not send a (observe) file to an NRAO email address as you may have been used to, only press a button. The SB will turn read-only: the SB name will appear in slanted red font.

When you realize you have an error in your submitted SB, simply select the SB in the tree, and navigate to the "Validate & Submit" tab page. You can cancel your SB submission, which creates a copy of the read-only SB in the PB. You can edit the copy, and submit it with your corrections.

While we are commissioning the first use of the WIDAR correlator, your submission will actually put your schedule in a queue that currently is on hold. After we have received your schedule we will check it for technical errors (i.e., not the sequence of scans, but for the WIDAR resources) and release it to the observing queue when it is found to be valid for setting up the WIDAR correlator. This practice will change with experience.