Screen Designer in the Desktop Application

In the desktop application, you use Screen Designer in conjunction with User Defined Components to customize tabs, fields, and grids in the Employees, Projects, and Equipment hubs and Chart of Accounts in the desktop application.

In User Defined Components:

• For the Equipment hub and Chart of Accounts (in Settings > Accounting), you can add user-defined fields, grids and tabs.
• For the Employees and Projects hubs, you can add user-defined tabs but not fields and grids.

In Screen Designer, you organize and manage the layout of tabs, fields, and grids (for both the user-defined and the standard tabs, fields, and grids that are provided with Deltek). You also set field-level security, such as hiding and locking hub fields.

To open User Defined Components, click Settings > General > User Defined Components from the Navigation menu.

You open Screen Designer directly from each of the three hubs or Chart of Accounts by clicking the Screen Designer icon at the bottom right of the screen. Only users with an administrator type security role can access Screen Designer.

Screen Designer and Multiple Currencies

If you are not using multiple currencies in Deltek, the Cost Currency field still displays on the Contract Management tab of the Projects hub. To hide this field, you must open Screen Designer from the Contract Management tab. The Cost, Billing, and Functional currency options will all display in Screen Designer, but you must hide only the Cost Currency option to hide the respective field from the Contract Management tab.