Enable the Multicompany Feature and Create the Initial Company

When you enable the Multicompany application, you also create the initial company in your organizational structure. The organization code for this company becomes level one of your organization structure.

Prerequisites: Before you begin, back up your DPS database.

To enable the Multicompany application and create the initial company:

1. On the Navigation menu in the desktop application, click Settings > Organization > General.
2. On the Organization General Setup form, click the Enable Multicompany button. A Password Required dialog box displays. This option is password protected to ensure that you consider the full implications of using this feature before you enable it. Contact Deltek Customer Care for a password.
3. Enter the password and click OK.
4. On the Enable Multicompany dialog box, enter settings and click OK. DPS creates the company code, making it the single top-level code for your organization structure. On the Organization General Setup form, DPS also:
   • Selects the Maintain separate balance sheets by Organization option. You cannot clear this option.
   • Disables the Default Organization field.
   • Displays in the Initial Company Code field the initial company code that you specified.
   By default, you see the following labels for the first level:
   • Singular Label = Company
   • Plural Label = Companies

     You can change these labels to conform to terminology used by your enterprise.

5. Click Save. DPS displays a prompt that asks you to confirm that you want to enable the Multicompany application and reminds you that doing so will make permanent changes to your database.
6. Click Yes to continue the process. The name of the active company displays on all forms that are company-specific and on the title bar of each screen.

   To change the active company in the browser application, click the name of the current company on the toolbar and select a company from the drop-down list. To change the active company in the desktop application, select Utilities > Change Company and then select a company on the Company Selection dialog box.