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Latest Mobile Time and Expense Release - 2.1

A new version of Costpoint Mobile Time and Expense is now available. Refer to the following documents for details.

Upcoming Costpoint 8.1 Release

We are very excited to announce our next release of Costpoint is coming soon. See below for a sneak peak of what is planned to be in 8.1.

Note: These release notes are a draft, and subject to change. More details to follow.

Deltek Costpoint 8.1 Pre-Release Notes

Time & Expense Notice for Newly Upgraded CP 8 Clients

Please refer to the following KB after upgrading to Costpoint 8, and before entering timesheets. A full export (uncheck Changes Since Last Download in the Export Data to Deltek Time & Expense screen) is required from Costpoint to update links in Time & Expense (TE).

KB# 103781

Important Costpoint Database Support Reminder!

Ensure you are running Costpoint on a supported RDBMS version!

Costpoint 7

Starting with the Costpoint 7.1.17 Maintenance Release (MR), scheduled for release in April 2021, Deltek will begin enforcing MR's (including previously released MR's) are applied only to a supported RDBMS version. This applies to T&E 10 and BP 7 as well.

You must be on one of the following RDBMS versions to apply MR 7.1.17.

SQL Server

SQL 2016
SQL 2017
SQL 2019

Oracle

18c
19c

Costpoint 8

Starting with the Costpoint 8.0.3 Maintenance Release (MR) Deltek began enforcing MR's are applied only to a supported RDBMS version.

You must be on one of the following RDBMS versions to apply MR 8.0.3.

SQL Server

SQL 2016
SQL 2017
SQL 2019

Oracle

18c
19c

Deltek Product Support Compatibility Matrix

Please refer to the Deltek Product Support Compatibility Matrix, KB #38499 , for a detailed list of supported 3^rd party tools and products. Please subscribe to this KB as it changes periodically.

Important Changes Coming to Costpoint Web Services in Costpoint 8.1 - Action Required Now

Costpoint 8.1 is currently targeted for release to on-premise clients in September 2021. With the release of Costpoint 8.1 only "Generic" Web Services will be supported. Customers who are currently using non-Generic Web Services should modify their existing non-Generic Web Services to be a Generic web service.

Costpoint Cloud customers are not impacted by this change since only Generic Web Services are supported in the Costpoint Cloud.

Upgrading to Costpoint 8.1

If you have not converted your non-Generic Web Services to Generic prior to upgrading to Costpoint 8.1 your non-Generic Web Services will not be included in the deployment of Costpoint 8.1. The definitions of your non-Generic Web Services will be kept in the Web Integration Console so that you can modify them to Generic and redeploy them. Deltek strongly recommends that you modify your non-Generic Web Services to Generic prior to installing Costpoint 8.1.

How to modify a non-Generic Web Service to a Generic Web Service

To modify your existing Web Service open the module and change the "Generate" setting from "Web Service" to "Generic Web Service" and save the module. Once done, that disables calls using the Regular Web Service for that module.

In the app that is calling the web services, there needs to be changes to the SOAP envelope.

The Web Service URL (aka the WSDL) needs to change to reflect the Generic URL (http://server/webservices/cpwwsgenericmoduleWS?WSDL or https://server/webservices/cpwwsgenericmodulesecWS?WSDL for secure requests).
Changes to the SOAP Envelope to reflect the change to the Generic Web Services.
- All modules could change to the same generic SOAP Envelope:
  - <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:cpw="http://www.deltek.com/enterprise/integration/ws/cpwwsgenericmodule" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
- In the <soapenv:Body>, the method name would change from the actual name of the method to one of the methods that handles Generic web service requests:
  - cpwwsgenericexport: Supports data export Web services
  - cpwwsgenericimport: Supports data import Web services
  - cpwwsgenericprocess: Supports process Web services
  - cpwwsgenericreportnoreturn: Supports report Web services that do not return the report
  - cpwwsgenericreporthtmlreturn: Supports report Web services that return report in HTML format
  - cpwwsgenericreportpdfreturn: Supports report Web services that return the report in PDF format
  - cpwwsgenericreportexcelreturn: Supports report Web services that return the report in Excel format
There would be no change to the actual XML.

More information on Generic Web Services can be found in Appendix A of the Integration Console guide found here.

Note: This may also be a good time to change from SOAP to REST if your organization has a preference for using REST API. More information on Costpoint's REST web services can be found here.

Coming Soon

See the following pre-release notes. Pre-release notes contain planned enhancements and/or defects. The contents may change prior to the actual release.

The upcoming 8.0 Costpoint Release:

Deltek Costpoint 8.0 Pre-Release Notes

The upcoming 7.1.x Costpoint Maintenance Release (MR):

Deltek Costpoint 7.1.x Pre-Release Notes

Additional information about the Costpoint Maintenance Release Model and 8.0 can be found through the Support Center Knowledge Base:

KB Article: 98538

With Costpoint 8.0, Costpoint Enterprise Reporting (CER) will have a new name! Details here:

Costpoint Enterprise Reporting Name Change

New Release Notes Format

Release notes are available from a web-based landing page and the Costpoint Information Center. We will also make a PDF available as we transition to the new format.

Release Notes Landing Page

Costpoint 7.1 Release Notes Landing Page

We want the release notes to be as easy to use as possible. To this end, we will continue to analyze and improve upon the format. Format improvements are already planned for release soon. We welcome your feedback!

Please email any feedback to: DeltekDocumentationFeedback@deltek.com.

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