Deltek Vantagepoint 2.0.12 (Build 2.0.12.6031) Release Notes
 
Last Updated: January 20, 2020


Welcome to the Deltek Vantagepoint 2.0.12 Release Notes, which describe the new features and enhancements introduced in this release.

These release notes address all of the modules associated with Deltek Advantage 2.0, some of which your firm may not use. Skip the sections that do not apply to your implementation of Deltek Vantagepoint.


Regulatory Enhancements


Federal


Federal Tax 2020: Nonresident Alien Additional Amount

The final 2020 Federal Income Tax Withholding Methods (2020 Publication 15-T, https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p15t.pdf) were released December 24, 2019 by the Internal Revenue Service. These instructions include the following steps for computing the amount to withhold for nonresident alien employees.

Withholding Adjustment for Nonresident Alien Employees

Instructions. To figure how much federal income tax to withhold from the wages paid to a nonresident alien employee performing services in the United States, use the following steps.

Step 1. Determine if the nonresident alien employee has submitted a 2020 Form W-4 or an earlier Form W-4. Then add to the wages paid to the nonresident alien employee for the payroll period the amount for the applicable type of Form W-4 and payroll period. If the nonresident alien employee was first paid wages before 2020 and has not submitted a Form W-4 for 2020 or later, add the amount shown in Table 1 to their wages for calculating federal income tax withholding.

 

Table 1

Payroll Period

Add Additional

Weekly

$155.80

Biweekly

311.50

Semimonthly

337.50

Monthly

675.00

Quarterly

2,025.00

Semiannually

4,050.00

Annually

8,100.00

Daily or Miscellaneous (each day of the payroll period)

31.20

If the nonresident alien employee has submitted a Form W-4 for 2020 or later or was first paid wages in 2020 or later, add the amount shown in Table 2 to their wages for calculating federal income tax withholding.

Table 2

Payroll Period

Add Additional

Weekly

$238.50

Biweekly

476.90

Semimonthly

516.70

Monthly

1,033.30

Quarterly

3,100.00

Semiannually

6,200.00

Annually

12,400.00

Daily or Miscellaneous (each day of the payroll period)

47.70

 

Step 2. Enter the amount figured in Step 1 above as the total taxable wages on line 1a of the withholding worksheet that you use to figure federal income tax withholding. The amounts from Tables 1 and 2 are added to wages solely for calculating income tax withholding on the wages of the nonresident alien employee. The amounts from the tables shouldn't be included in any box on the employee's Form W-2 and don't increase the income tax liability of the employee. Also, the amounts from the tables don't increase the Social Security tax or Medicare tax liability of the employer or the employee, or the FUTA tax liability of the employer.


Federal Tax 2020: Federal Withholding Allowance and Final Form W-4

Federal Tax Updates

Here are the changes to federal taxes for 2020:

Final Form W-4

The 2020 Form W-4 has been redesigned to reduce the form's complexity and to increase transparency and accuracy in the withholding system. Beginning with the 2020 Form W-4, employees will no longer be able to request adjustments to their withholding using withholding allowances. Instead, using the new Form W-4, employees will provide employers with amounts to increase or reduce taxes and amounts to increase or decrease the amount of wage income subject to income tax withholding. The 2020 Final Form W-4 is available here: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf

Publication 15-T (2020 Federal Income Tax Withholding Methods, https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p15t.pdf) has also been released. It offers instructions on how to compute withholding under new methods that were needed because of the federal tax code overhaul (Pub. L. 115-97), which took effect January 1, 2018. The proposed four-step withholding worksheet uses 2019 income tax amounts so employers can program payroll systems to accommodate the 2020 changes for Form W-4, Wage and Tax Statement:

Screen Updates

To accommodate these changes, the following fields have been added to the Payroll tab of the Employee hub, under the Form W-4 Information section:

The following existing fields, previously displayed below the grid, are now in the Form W-4 Information section:

Note: Vantagepoint does not support Form W-4. However, some state withholding and W-2 tables and calculations may be impacted based on the Form W-4 version. These fields have been set up to ensure that these tables and calculations are accurate.


State


Colorado 2020 Tax Update

The formula has been revised to use deduction amounts ($4,000 a year, or $8,000 if the employee is married and filing jointly) instead of allowances for new employees hired in 2020 or for employees that fill out the 2020 Form W-4.

For employees who have filled out a Form W-4 from 2019 or earlier, either the 2020 formula or the previous formula, effective January 1, 2019, may be used to calculate state withholding.

For more information, see: https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/sites/default/files/DR1098_2020.pdf.


Illinois 2020 Tax Update

The personal exemption amount for one increases from $2,275 to $2,325. For more information, see:  https://www2.illinois.gov/rev/forms/withholding/Documents/currentyear/il-700-t.pdf.


Maine 2020 Tax Update

Here are the updates for Maine for 2020:

For more information, see: https://www.maine.gov/revenue/forms/with/2020/20_WH_Tab&Instructions.pdf.


Maryland 2020 Tax Update

There are eight local withholding tax rate changes for tax year 2020:

For more information, see the following:


Massachusetts 2019 W-2 Electronic Filing: Federal and Paid Family Leave Amounts

The following are changes to the CYE 2019 Massachusetts W-2 Electronic Filing: 

For more information, see: https://www.mass.gov/doc/w-2-electronic-filing-specifications-handbook/download.


Massachusetts 2020 Tax Update

These are the updates for Massachusetts for 2020:

For more information, see: https://www.mass.gov/doc/massachusetts-circular-m-income-tax-withholding-tables-at-50-effective-january-1-2020/download.


Michigan 2020 Tax Update

The personal exemption amount for one increases from $4,400 to $4,750. For more information, see: https://www.michigan.gov/documents/taxes/446_2020_674075_7.pdf.


Minnesota 2020 Tax Update

Following are the changes for Minnesota:


Missouri 2020 Tax Update

The following are tax updates for Missouri for 2020:

For more information, see: https://dor.mo.gov/forms/Withholding%20Formula_2020.pdf.


New Mexico 2020 Tax Update

The following are updates for Mexico in 2020:

For more information, see: http://www.tax.newmexico.gov/witholding-tax-historic-rates.aspx.


North Dakota 2020 Tax Update

Changes have been made to North Dakota's income tax withholding methods and tables for 2020, to conform to the redesigned Form W-4. There will now be two withholding methods, depending on which version of the Form W-4 is used-from 2020, or from 2019 or earlier.

Updates include the following:

For more information, see: https://www.nd.gov/tax/data/upfiles/media/rates-and-instructions.pdf?20191209214910.


Oregon 2020 Tax Update
These are the updates for Oregon in 2020:

For more information, see: https://www.oregon.gov/DOR/forms/FormsPubs/withholding-tax-formulas_206-436_2020.pdf.


South Carolina 2020 Tax Update

These are the updates for South Carolina:

For more information, see: https://dor.sc.gov/forms-site/Forms/WH1603F_2020.pdf.


Vermont 2020 Tax Update

The updates for Vermont include the following:

For more information, see: https://tax.vermont.gov/sites/tax/files/documents/GB-1210.pdf


Enhancements


Exports Utility: New Data Packs and Data Export Definitions


The Exports utility (Utilities » Imports & Exports » Exports) has new data packs and data export definitions specifically designed for integrating Vantagepoint with the following accounting software:

 

New Data Packs

Use the following new data packs to create your own data export definitions. When you create a new data export definition in the Exports utility, the Select Columns dialog box now has new additions in the drop-down list in the Data Pack Category field and the Data Pack field as follows:

 

Software Product

New Data Pack Categories

New Data Packs

Sage 200cloud

Sage_200

  • Sage200CustomerAccounts

  • Sage200CustomerTransactions

Sage Business Cloud Accounting

Sage_Cloud_Business_Accounting

  • SageCBAccountingExpensesQuickEntriesCA

  • SageCBAccountingExpensesQuickEntriesUS

  • SageCBAccountingPurchasesQuickEntriesUK

  • SageCBAccountingCustomersCA

  • SageCBAccountingCustomersUK

  • SageCBAccountingCustomersUS

  • SageCBAccountingSales_QuickEntriesCA

  • SageCBAccountingSales_QuickEntriesUK

  • SageCBAccountingSales_QuickEntriesUS

  • SageCBAccountingVendorCA

  • SageCBAccountingVendorUK

  • SageCBAccountingVendorUS

MYOB

None

None

 

New Data Export Definitions

Use the new data export definition as a starting point to suit your specific needs for the integration with any of the three software products. Deltek recommends that you copy a data export definition to create a new one, and then modify the new one as needed. It is also recommended that you work with Deltek Consulting or a Deltek Partner to get the most out of this integration.

 

Software Product

New Data Export Definitions on the Definitions tab of the Data Export Definitions Form in the Exports Utility

Sage 200cloud

  • Sage200CustomerAccounts

  • Sage200CustomerTransactions

Sage Business Cloud Accounting

  • SageCBAccounting_ExpensesQuickEntriesCA

  • SageCBAccounting_ExpensesQuickEntriesUS

  • SageCBAccounting_PurchasesQuickEntriesUK

  • SageCBAccountingCustomersCA

  • SageCBAccountingCustomersUK

  • SageCBAccountingCustomersUS

  • SageCBAccountingSales_QuickEntriesCA

  • SageCBAccountingSales_QuickEntriesUK

  • SageCBAccountingSales_QuickEntriesUS

  • SageCBAccountingVendorCA

  • SageCBAccountingVendorUK

  • SageCBAccountingVendorUS

MYOB

  • Customer Cards

  • Employee Cards

  • General Journal Entries

  • Jobs

  • Timesheets

  • Transaction Journals


Reverse Charge Taxes for Intercompany AP Vouchers


You can now apply a reverse charge tax to an intercompany AP voucher. This tax may be necessary when the following apply:

Deltek recommends that you consult your tax advisor for the particular situations in which you may need to apply a reverse charge tax to an intercompany AP voucher.

To specify a reverse charge tax code to use for intercompany AP vouchers:

  1. In Settings » Accounting » Intercompany Billing in the desktop application, click the Subledger Terms tab.

  2. In the Invoice section, leave any Tax Code field blank if it corresponds with an AP voucher reverse charge tax code that you enter in the Tax Code fields in the Voucher section on this tab. A "corresponding" tax code means that if, for example, you enter a reverse charge tax code in the second Tax Code field in the Voucher section, you must leave the second Tax Code field in the Invoice section blank.

  3. In the Voucher section, enter up to three reverse charge tax codes in the Tax Code fields for intercompany AP vouchers.

The corresponding Tax Code fields in the Invoice section on the Subledger Terms tab are now disabled.

On the Options tab in Settings » Cash Management » Tax Codes, for a reverse charge tax:

When you use a reverse charge tax code on an intercompany AP Voucher, the following apply:

The tax amount on the intercompany AP voucher is "reverse charged" to the owner of the AP voucher (the company who owns the project).


Touch


Updated PHP Version

The Touch Server for this version of the Deltek Vantagepoint mobile application has been upgraded to support PHP 7.3.13.


Software Issues Resolved


Billing >> Interactive Billing


Defect 1216386: When you made changes to the entry in the Invoice Date field between the time that you submitted an invoice for approval on the Billing Session Options tab in Billing » Interactive Billing and the time when it was approved in Billing » Invoice Approval, the final invoice displayed the original date when it was first submitted for approval, instead of the correct date.


Cash Management >> Bank Reconciliation


Defect 1231204: On th Summary tab of the Bank Reconciliation form, the amount in the Payments field was not updated when a voided transaction was part of a larger EFT payment.


Defect 1231383: On the Import tab, when you imported a transaction record without a reference number and you tried to match the imported record to an existing record, you received an error when you tried to save the selected (matched) record.


Defect 1235255: If the database date format differed from the default Vantagepoint date format, when you selected Other Actions » Create Transaction Entries and clicked Create on the Create Bank Transaction Entries form, no entries were created.


Cash Management >> Payment Review


Defect 1228502: On the Payment Review form, when you clicked the hyperlink in the Payment Number column in the Payments grid, the AP Payment Processing Posting Log did not display as it should have when your role had the appropriate security settings to access it.


Defect 1231245: In Payment Review, when you voided a payment in a prior period, it incorrectly posted to the current period.


Cash Management >> Vendor Payments


Defect 1228505: If you have a vendor whose multiple vouchers net to 0 (zero), the vouchers did not display on the Vendor Payments form in the Vendor Balances grid. This prevented you from selecting those vouchers to process ("pay") to clear them from the AP ledger. Now, you can see these vouchers in the Vendor Balances grid and select them for processing if you turn off the Vendors with Vouchers Selected setting on the Vendor Balances grid toolbar.


Hubs >> Employee >> Employees


Defect 1231123: In the Employees hub, the Bonus field in the Other Pay section of the Payroll tab did not display. In addition, the Other Pay fields had incorrect labels.


Defect 1232043: In the External Payroll Information section of the Accounting tab, there were instances in which you could not edit the Paychex Employee Number and Paychex Rate Number fields.


Hubs >> Firms >> Firms


Defect 1231760: In the Addresses grid on the Overview tab of the Firms form, if you resized the column width for more than one column, the column widths reverted to their default widths.


Defect 1232552: When you merged a vendor type firm with a client type firm on the Combine Records tab of Utilities » Key Conversions » Firms, the values for the following fields on the Vendor tab of the Firms form were not transferred to the merged firm record:

Then, in the Addresses grid on the Overview tab, the selection for the firm address' Payment option was not transferred and became cleared (unchecked). This caused a blank Payment Address field on the Vendor tab.


Hubs >> Projects >> Contract Management


Defect 1228471: In some cases, when you changed a contract number on the Contract tab of the Contract Management form in the Projects hub and then tried to save, you received a "Column:FeeDirLab does not exist" error.


Hubs >> Projects >> Plan


Defect 1228466: This issue occurred when you created an e-mail alert for plans in Settings » Resource Planning » Alerts and the alert had the plan name in the email Subject field. When you created and tried to save a new plan in the Projects hub, the save action locked and never finished. The email alert was never sent.


Defect 1236807: When users performed actions that required Vantagepoint to retrieve a project with a large amount of plan data, CPU usage on the database server increased significantly, degrading performance in a number of areas of the product.


Hubs >> Projects >> Project


Defect 1210868: When you copied a project, or linked a promotional project while creating a new project, the Edit Project Structure grid took some time to load. This happened if the copied or linked project had phases/tasks for which the Stage field was set to Won or Lost and the Stage Won/Lost Reason field was not blank.


Defect 1225477: If the Country field for the primary client on the Overview tab of the Projects form was left blank, the project record did not save even when the field was not required.


Defect 1232558: When you entered a value in the Task to Adjust field on the Accounting tab of the Projects form, and then you accessed the Project Structure dialog box and closed it, the Task to Adjust field value was changed to a task that was not available in the project’s phase.


Defect 1232968: In the Project hubs, a timeout error occurred when you created a project if auto-numbering was incorrectly configured to exceed the key format length for projects. (You specify auto-numbering for projects in Settings » Workflow » Numbering.)


Defect 1232976: If you belonged to a role with project record access restrictions and tried to create a project by using a template, you received an error message.


Defect 1236773: If data validation workflows were set up to be initiated when a new project was created and you added both a regular project and a linked promotional project as part of the same project creation process, the workflows functioned correctly for the regular project but not for the promotional project. When you saved the projects, the workflows incorrectly ran twice against the regular project data, rather than once to validate the regular project data and a second time to validate the promotional project data.


Installation


Defect 1128442: This issue applies if you upgraded from Vision to Vantagepoint. When you uninstalled Vision iAccess and Touch before installing Vantagepoint for the first time, the installation incorrectly indicated that the products were still installed. To get around this, you had to manually remove the registry keys for iAccess and Touch.


Defect 1229682: When you ran a Project, Planning, or Accounts Receivable report and then selected a project record in the Projects hub, the project did not load until the report was generated.


My Stuff >> Approval Center


Defect 1228527: When you modified the column labels in Settings » Labels & Lists » Labels and then selected either a timesheet line or an expense line in the Approval Center, the updated custom labels for the phase and task number columns were not displayed.


My Stuff >> Expense Report


Defect 1228489: In the Total Tax Amount column, when you changed a copied expense line's Tax Code field to GST_0 code (to have a zero tax amount), and then you saved and generated the report, the generated report had a tax amount of 1.00.


My Stuff >> Reporting


Defect 1198653: When you ran the Fee Remaining report using the report's default options and then exported it to Excel, the Phase 1 amount was duplicated and in some cases appeared multiple times.


Defect 1225418: When you selected Sort By » Employee on the Options tab of the Project Detail report and ran the report, the output was sorted by labor code.


Defect 1225468: You could not run project reports if they included calculated fields that were set to Perform Calculation On > Each Row on the Query. In addition, if any calculated fields included user-defined fields, the calculated fields did not display any amounts unless the user-defined fields were also included as columns on the report.


Defect 1225473: When you opened an Employee List report and tried clicking any of the reporting action buttons from the reporting menu, none of the buttons worked if the database that you used did not have the Accounting or Time & Expense modules activated.


Defect 1227625: When your role did not have access to Transaction Center » Posting Review, you could not access the Accrual Year drop-down list on the Options tab of the Accrued Time report.


Defect 1228148: On the Options tab of the Cash Receipts report, you were not able to view all bank information in the Detail Options section when you didn't have the security access to enable the Banks option in Settings » Cash Management » Banks.


Defect 1228600: On the Options tab of the Income Statement report, previous and future general ledger budget options were not available. Only the present general budget option was included in the budgets list.


Defect 1229137: The date columns in both the Employee List and Employee Labor Detail reports did not apply the date format specified in the Date Format field in My Preferences.


My Stuff >> Timesheet


Defect 1223508: This issue occured when you set Start/End Time Entry to By Day in Settings » Time » Options and the active company was not the same as the timesheet company. When you selected Other Actions » Print » Start/End Timesheet and previewed the report, it did not show the start and end times entered on the timesheet.


Defect 1227146: You could not save a timesheet when a period on the timesheet was only open to System Administrators.


Defect 1232998: When you created a new user defined field (for example, Province of Employment) with a list of values in Hubs » Employees, and used it as a new custom search option in My Stuff » Timesheet, the list of values was not available.


Resource Management


Defect 1226897: An employee with no project assignment showed hours assigned in Resources » All Resources view in Resource Management » Reporting when a generic resource had the same ID as the employee.


Settings >> Currency >> Options


Defect 1167866: On the Options form, when you removed values from the Account ID and API Key fields in the XE.com Setting section, you received an error message saying that values were required in those fields.


Settings >> General Ledger


Defect 1225499: You could not add a dormant account to an account group table in Settings » General Ledger » Account Group Tables.


Defect 1231768: When you attempted to change an account's status to Dormant in Settings » General Ledger » Chart of Accounts, the wrong error message displayed and did not explain why the account status could not be changed to dormant. 


Settings >> General >> Screen Designer


Defect 1219541: Two issues related to Screen Designer and the Projects hub were fixed:


Defect 1222694: If you tried to delete a user-defined field from a hub in Screen Designer, you received an error message.


Settings >> Resource Planning


Defect 1231936: When you set the minimum threshold for utilization or scheduled hours on the Resource Settings form (Settings » Resource Planning » Resource Settings) higher than the default maximum threshold value (105 percent), that minimum threshold was saved correctly. However, Vantagepoint incorrectly showed the minimum threshold as 105 percent the next time that you displayed the form. A similar problem occurred if you set the maximum threshold lower than the default minimum threshold (95 percent). In that case, the maximum threshold was shown as 95 percent the next time that you displayed the form.


Settings >> Security >> Roles


Defect 1179075: In some cases, even though your user's role had access to project plans (Hubs » Projects » Plan), you were unable to access project plan records. In Settings » Security » Roles, the Overview tab indicated that the role had project plan access, but it was not listed in the Application Records List on the Records Access tab in Role Security settings.


Defect 1230969: The Roles Security Settings application could stop functioning when you added or removed options for a role.


Settings >> Workflow >> Approval Workflows


Defect 1217565: On the Workflow tab of the Approvals Configuration form in the desktop application, when you tried to configure the conditions of an approval step on the Conditions dialog box with the VE.Specialty option specified in the Column field, the Value field displayed a text field instead of a drop-down.


Defect 1231705: In the the desktop application, you should have been able to delete an approval workflow on the Approvals Configuration form if it had not been used yet (no approval records were associated with it).


Transaction Center >> AP Invoice Approval


Defect 1231347: When you changed the order of the columns on the Select Purchase Orders dialog box in the AP Invoice Approvals application, the order was not retained the next time that you opened the dialog box. To access this dialog box, click the Edit row tool for a row in the grid on the AP Invoice Approvals form and then click the Purchase Order field.


Defect 1235097: This issue occurred when you created a new AP invoice approval in the AP Invoice Approvals application and the following applied:

Result: The voucher was not added to the run that you selected. Instead, it was added to the most current run, which you could see in Transaction Center » Create Voucher from PO in the desktop application.


Transaction Center >> Time and Expense Posting


Defect 1224124: On the Timesheet tab, when you selected the Print-Errors Only option, the Transaction List Errors report did not include the list of errors. When you selected the Print option, the Transaction List report also generated the same results.


Transaction Center >> Transaction Entry >> AP Disbursements


Defect 1230897: You were unable to open an existing recurring AP Disbursement file and received an "Ambiguous results found" error.


Transaction Center >> Transaction Entry >> Invoices


Defect 1226902: When entering invoice transactions in the Transaction Center, you could not select a phase that was owned by another company.


Utilities >> Desktop Imports


Defect 1226117: If you imported projects using the Projects import utility in the desktop application and the import fields included one or more Info Center type custom fields, you received a "Project <project number> does not exist" error when you tried to edit information in Vantagepoint for one of the imported projects.


Defect 1229639: This issue occurred when you imported units in the imports utility n the desktop application. If you included the Employee field in the import mapping, you should have been required to also include the EmployeeCompany field in the mapping.


Utilities >> History Loading >> Labor and Expense


Defect 1213027: The project labor transaction was not displayed in the Labor grid of the Labor and Expense form when you used the Import Utility (in Utilities » Desktop Imports of the desktop application) to import project labor transactions with a period that was not 0 or XXXX00.


Utilities >> Integrations >> GovWin IQ


Defect 1231213: This issue applies if you use GovWin IQ integration. Milestones were duplicated on the Dates & Costs tab in the Projects hub for projects in Vantagepoint, if those projects were created from opportunities in GovWin IQ and you ran the update process to update GovWin IQ opportunity records.


Utilities >> Integrations >> QuickBooks


Defect 1218497: On the Employee Mapping tab of the QuickBooks form, the QuickBooks Online Vendor Reference column in the Employees grid did not correctly display the vendor. The same applied for the QuickBooks Online Reference column on the Accounts Mapping tab of the QuickBooks form.


Defect 1231909: This issue applies if you have Vantagepoint integrated with QuickBooks Online. Contacts that you created in QuickBooks Online were not added to Vantagepoint. Instead, the error log on the Error Logs tab in Utilities » Integrations » QuickBooks showed the following error: "Field QBOLastUpdated does not exist."


Utilities >> Key Conversions >> Organization Sub-codes


Defect 1229670: On the Change Number tab, the Run option was disabled when you tried to change the code number for the Discipline organization level in the Level field.


Utilities >> Updates >> Create Contracts from Fees


Defect 1235530: When you used the Create Contracts from Fees utility in the desktop application (Utilities » Updates » Create Contracts from Fees) to create contracts for multiple projects at one time based on their compensation amounts, the utility created the contracts correctly at the project level, but it did not create any contract detail when a project had compensation amounts at lower work breakdown structure levels.


Utilities >> Updates >> Refresh Billing Extensions


Defect 1232570: This defect reverses the changes made to fix defect 1222995 in Vantagepoint 2.0.11 (December 16, 2019). Defect 1222995 identified the following issue: When you ran Refresh Billing Extensions, it changed the billing rate for overtime. This known issue will be addressed in a future release.


 


Database Changes

 

Database Changes (Vision/Ajera CRM/GovWin Capture Management 7.6 to Deltek for Professional Services 1.1)


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