Deltek DPS® Help

The Deltek DPS help system provides help for all application areas. You launch the help system from links in DPS.

Each section of the help contains the help topics for a single application, such as hubs or utilities. The help system provides the following types of topics:

Topic Type Purpose
Procedures Procedure topics provide step-by-step instructions for completing tasks.
Field Descriptions At the form and dialog box level, reference topics contain tables of field descriptions. These topics describe data entry requirements for each field and the effects of each option.
Concepts Concept topics explain the underlying concepts that drive various business processes.
Checklists Checklist topics provide lists of procedures that you must perform sequentially to complete complex processing functions, such as intercompany billing.
Overviews Overview topics introduce an application, feature, or process.

Printed Documentation

To access the printed documents for this release of DPS, see DPS Documentation List.

Related Topics:

  • Basics
    DPS is designed to be simple to learn and simple to use. After reviewing the basics, you will know your way around the application and be ready to manage your pursuit of business opportunities.
  • Concepts
    Before you implement and use DPS, it is important to understand the fundamental principles of the application. The Concepts documentation gives you a basic understanding of the principles behind the transactions, processes, and activities that are vital to the work that you perform.
  • Dashboard (Desktop)
    Dashboard is your portal into DPS business development and project information that you rely on most.
  • My Stuff
    Use My Stuff to create a personalized view of your business world.
  • Hubs
    The hubs provide you with a set of tools, applications, and reports to help you manage all aspects of your business-related data. Use hubs to gather information about your projects, employees, opportunities, and more. Add new records, update records, and copy or delete records. Then use this information to streamline procedures, activities, and client interactions.
  • Resource Management
    The Resource Management application supports and enhances several key planning functions.
  • Billing
    Use the Billing application to create, process, approve, print, and email billing invoices to your clients.
  • Transaction Center Overview
    Use the Transaction Center to enter and maintain data for transactions such as disbursements, expenses, invoices, and vouchers.
  • Cash Management
    Use the Cash Management application to track and manage your firm's vouchers, invoices, payments and accounts receivable.
  • Accounting
    Use the Accounting application to track your firm’s day-to-day financial activity. You can also generate reports that help you assess project and firm-wide financial performance.
  • General Ledger
    Use the General Ledger application to manage all aspects of your general ledger and consolidated budgets.
  • Human Resources
    In Human Resources you work with payroll information, set parameters for importing and exporting payroll data to third-party applications, and set options for processing accruals and adjustments for paid time off.
  • Purchasing
    Use the Purchasing application to keep electronic records of both internal and project-related procurement and receiving of services, materials, supplies, and capital items.
  • Asset Management
    Asset Management is an optional application that you use in conjunction with the Equipment hub to track and process depreciation or amortization for asset items that you capitalize.
  • Inventory
    Use the Inventory application to control and track the items marked as inventory.
  • Reporting
    Reporting offers you a wide range of reports that present information about all aspects of your data, including projects, firms, contacts, and employees.
  • Utilities
    Use the utilities in the Utilities application to perform maintenance tasks, data importing, key conversions, report and file administration, and other functions in your DPS database.
  • Settings
    Use the Settings applications to specify your organization structure, password policies, DPS users, and other basic information about how you want DPS as a whole and each of its applications to function.
  • Microsoft Outlook Add-in
    The Outlook add-in for Deltek DPS provides easy access to a DPS contact's information in DPS when you are viewing an email from the contact in Microsoft Outlook.
  • QuickBooks Integration with DPS
    When you own both Intuit® QuickBooks® Online and the Deltek DPS Front Office Package, you can set up integration between the two products.
  • Data Dictionary
    The data dictionary provides information about all of the data tables, columns, and indexes in the database DPS.
  • Development Guide
    Deltek provides APIs to build custom applications that interact with DPS and Web services you can use to perform custom validation and set up workflow criteria.
  • Cloud Administrator's Help System
    If you are the DPS administrator for your company, use the Cloud Administrator's Help System to learn about your role and responsibilities.