Deltek Vantagepoint 4.5.8 (Build 4.5.8.1712) Release Notes
 
Release Date: May 2, 2022
Last Updated: May 2, 2022


Welcome to the Deltek Vantagepoint 4.5.8 Release Notes, which describe the new features and enhancements introduced in this release.

These release notes address all of the modules associated with Deltek Vantagepoint 4.5, some of which your firm may not use. Skip the sections that do not apply to your implementation of Deltek Vantagepoint.


Important Notes


Microsoft SQL Server 2019

If you are running Microsoft SQL Server 2019, Vantagepoint 4.5.8 requires the latest SQL Server 2019 CU15. If you don’t have CU15 installed when you upgrade to Vantagepoint 4.5.8, you will receive a message letting you know that it is required and setup will exit. Install SQL Server 2019 CU15 and then install Vantagepoint 4.5.8.


Regulatory Enhancements


State


Maryland 2022 Tax Updates

Maryland's 2022 withholding guide, revised March 2022 and effective January 2022, includes the following updates:

The guide's percentage methods, on the other hand, remain unchanged from the previous revision (dated January 2021). For more information, see: https://marylandtaxes.gov/forms/21_forms/Withholding_Guide.pdf.


Utah 2022 Tax Updates

The updates for Utah are effective as of May 1, 2022:

For more information, see: https://tax.utah.gov/forms/pubs/pub-14-may2022.pdf.


Enhancements


Currency Options


New Currency Code for Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone's currency, the Leone, has been redenominated by removing three zeros from the denominations. The new currency code representing the new valuation, SLE, was added to Vantagepoint in April 2022 and is available for any processing needs during the redenomination process. Both the old (SLL) and new (SLE) codes are now available on the Currency Options form (Settings » Currency » Options). The Deltek Vantagepoint API also supports both codes beginning in April 2022.

The Sierra Leonean currency will continue to be the Leone and this will not change after redenomination. However, SLE will eventually replace the old currency code, SLL, as the official currency code. The Bank of Sierra Leone will adopt the new code in the local system, but SLL will remain in use until further notice. During the transition period, both the old and new Leone will be in physical circulation for at least 90 days.


Mobile


Upgrade Touch Server to PHP 8.1.4

The Touch Server for this version of the Vantagepoint mobile application has been upgraded to support PHP 8.1.4.


Private IP Addresses in the Weblink Utility


Private IP Addresses

The General tab of the Weblink utility now includes an Allow Private IP Addresses grid. Use this grid to enter and save a set of private IP addresses to use with the Weblink utility. Normally, any calls to outside webservices are blocked if their URL is in a private address space, but now any IP address in this grid will be allowed for calling webservices in PIM or in Workflow.


PSA


Update General Ledger API Endpoints for PSA Module to Support the FilterHash Functionality

The general ledger API endpoints for the Vantagepoint PSA module now support the filterHash functionality. The filterHash query string parameters allow you to limit results data further by supporting advanced filter options through the use of an encoded array of values.

For more information about the filterHash query string parameters, see the Deltek Vantagepoint API Reference documentation.


QuickBooks Integration


Billing Invoice, AP Voucher, and Expense Report Enhancements for Canadian and UK Customers

This enhancement applies only for the integration with Canadian and UK QuickBooks Online databases. Vantagepoint billing invoices, accounts payable vouchers, and expense reports that are added to QuickBooks Online during synchronization now allow for tax by line item, even when the tax amount is zero.

During synchronization between Vantagepoint and Canadian and UK QuickBooks Online databases, the following now occur:


Software Issues Resolved


Accounting >> Intercompany Billing


Defect 1633164: On the General tab of the Intercompany Billing form, the timestamp in the Posted field in the Intercompany Postings grid did not correctly display the local time for the posting.


Billing >> Interactive Billing


Defect 1605931: This issue occurred in Interactive Billing when you transferred all billing labor transactions of a project to another project after you submitted the invoice for approval. When you clicked the Unsubmit action, you received the following error message: "The invoice was not submitted because there was nothing to print."


Defect 1614279: In Interactive Billing, when you clicked Other Actions » View Supporting Documents, the Associated Documents grid on the Supporting Documents dialog box incorrectly showed expenses with a date outside the bill-through date that you specified for the billing session.


Defect 1616457: This issue applies when you log in to Vantagepoint using the French (Canada) language. On the Invoice History tab in Interactive Billing, when you opened the Email Invoice dialog box and set the Select Attendees From option to Project Roles, the list of project roles incorrectly displayed Primary Contact, Billing Contact, and Biller in English.


Defect 1622992: On the General tab in Interactive Billing, when you clicked More in the Draft Invoice Comments field and added an image file on the Draft Invoice Comments dialog box, after you saved the comments, you were unable to click More in the Draft Invoice Comments field to view or update the comments.


Defect 1628451: When you entered a labor transfer on the Labor tab of the Interactive Billing form and you entered an invalid labor code or a code that exceeded the maximum length in the Labor Code field on the Billing Labor Transfer dialog box, you received an error message about the invalid entry. When you clicked OK or closed the error dialog box, an incorrect entry was posted for the labor transfer. This issue occurred if you had selected the Within Current Sub-Phase check box on the Billing Labor Transfer dialog box.


Defect 1632778: On the Invoice History tab, when you created a new credit memo and added new project details, the newly added phases and tasks were not included in the invoice file. (The Add Project Detail link should have been disabled in this scenario.)


Cash Management >> Credit Card Reconciliation


Defect 1572173: On the Charges tab of the Credit Card Reconciliation form, when you clicked Transaction Date to sort by the most recent transactions, some rows at the bottom of the Charges grid were hidden from view.


Defect 1611558: When you selected the Include Missing Charges from Prior Statements and the Auto Clear options on the Credit Card Reconciliation form, the value of the Statement Date field was replaced with the value of the Current Date field from a previous credit card statement.


Hubs


Defect 1616446: On any hub form with the option to attach files, you received this error message: "SaveBO: Column 'WBS1' does not exist in table FW_ATTACHMENTS." This issue occurred when you completed the following actions:

  1. Delete an existing file and do not click Save.

  2. Upload a new file and click Save.


Hubs >> Boilerplates


Defect 1576987: On the Boilerplates form, if you inserted a memo in the Text field that included a less than symbol (<) and then saved the boilerplate, Vantagepoint interpreted the symbol as a script tag. As a result, all values were removed from the Text field.


Hubs >> Contacts >> Contacts


Defect 1584583: When you entered a contact as a New Lead in the Detail view, if you then switched to List view and back to Detail view again, the Firm column disappeared.


Defect 1612503: The Contacts form went blank if you navigated quickly to other hubs and then back to this form.


Hubs >> Employee >> Employees


Defect 1612609: If you created an employee but their role did not have access to pay types, the Pay Type field defaulted to Null instead of Hourly. When you made any updates to the record and saved, you received this error message: "Please review values on tabs, Accounting, Payroll."


Hubs >> Firms >> Firms


Defect 1568239: This issue occurred when you created a new record in the Firms hub. When you right-clicked the firm name of an existing record to copy and paste to the new record, Vantagepoint did not display a warning message saying that you may be creating a duplicate record.


Defect 1619224: When the Vendor Number field was locked for a role in the Screen Designer, you could not save changes to the vendor record and you received a "Vendor number is required" error message.


Defect 1629528: This issue occurred when you added a custom grid to the Firms form, added a column to the custom grid, set the Type option to Numeric, and selected the Include in Report Total check box. If you then tried to change the value of the Type option to Character, you received an "Invalid Sum Column" error message.


Hubs >> Firms >> Voucher Review


Defect 1549243: When you clicked the Billed Invoice field on the Invoice Details dialog box, the invoice lookup did not load invoice records automatically. You had to enter at least one filter to display the list of invoices.


Hubs >> Marketing Campaigns >> Marketing Campaigns


Defect 1615944: On the Summary Pane of the Marketing Campaigns form, when you modified the value of the Actual Cost field and saved the record, the value was reset to 0.


Hubs >> Projects >> Contract Management


Defect 1609226: This issue occurred when you created a new project with lower WBS levels, selected an organization within one of these levels that used a different functional currency from the project, and then completed the following steps:

  1. Navigated to Hubs » Projects » Contract Management and clicked the Contract tab.

  2. Clicked + Add Contract, entered values for the required fields in the Contract Management grid, and selected the Include in Fees option (which is available when Vantagepoint is set up to synchronize contract amounts and compensation amounts).

  3. Clicked Save.

You should have received a warning message to inform you that Vantagepoint could not confirm that the contract amounts were fully distributed due to the different functional currencies between the levels.


Hubs >> Projects >> Invoices


Defect 1628431: Duplicate invoices, with an empty value under the Billing Client column, were displayed for some invoices in the Invoices grid on the Invoices form. 


Hubs >> Projects >> Plan


Defect 1583317: This issue occurred after upgrading from Vision to Vantagepoint. On the Labor tab of the Plan form, the value in the Baseline Hours field was converted correctly, but the amount in the Baseline Billing or Baseline Cost field was not converted and the field was blank.


Hubs >> Projects >> Project


Defect 1600029: In List view on the Projects page, when you updated fields in the grid and then clicked above the grid, the Please Wait indicator did not stop spinning and the projects were not updated until you refreshed the page.


Defect 1627573: This issue occurred if you set the Autonumbering feature for Project with the Allow Override of Auto Number check box selected in Settings » Workflow » Numbering and you tried to do the following:

  1. On the Projects form, you either clicked +New Project to create a new project or selected Other Actions » Copy Project to quickly create a new project by copying data from an existing one.

  2. On either the New Project form or the Copy Project form, you clicked Continue.

Vantagepoint was unable to validate the project number. As a result, the Project Number field displayed "auto-numbered" instead of displaying the project number.


Defect 1645652: In the Projects hub, you were unable to paste a value into a field even when the value matched a selection from the field's lookup or drop-down list.


Defect 1646100: When you clicked the Teams tab on the Projects form, you received a warning message that the RecordType field (Type field) in the Team Members grid had been secured for your role and to check permissions. When you checked the Team Members grid settings in Screen Designer (Other Actions » Design on the Projects form), the field security for the Type field had been incorrectly changed to Secured for all roles.


Hubs >> Projects >> Project Review


Defect 1611934: When you drilled down on Direct Labor Hours in Project Review, employees with net zero hours or negative hours did not display.


My Stuff >> Calendar


Defect 1510899: When you cleared the Timesheet check box in Calendar Views and you then clicked one of the calendar dates to add a timesheet entry in the Calendar form of Calendar Timesheet, you received this error message: "No Timesheet found for this period."


My Stuff >> Dashboards


Defect 1604421: This issue occurred for table dashparts with the Project base that included the Project Name column. When you clicked the link under the Project Name column to display the info bubble and then clicked Open in Projects in the info bubble, Vantagepoint displayed the Projects hub with the error message: "You do not have access." (This happened even if you could access the project record directly from the Projects hub.)


Defect 1629789: The Project Detail dashpart did not display the correct breakdown of hours charged to employees. Instead of adding hours to each assigned employee, all hours were charged to one employee.


My Stuff >> Expense Report


Defect 1493856: When you imported new credit card charges in Cash Management » Credit Card Reconciliation, you received a new charge available email message containing a link to the imported charges. However, when you clicked the link, you were redirected to the Expense Report page and you received this error message: "Sorry, we can't find the record you are looking for. It may no longer exist or you don't have access to it."


Defect 1577129: When you submitted an expense report, you received a "Project required" error message. This issue occurred when you did the following:

  1. You created an expense report and included detail lines.

  2. You did one or both of the following:

  1. In the expense line detail, you left the Project field blank. 


My Stuff >> Reporting


Defect 1485800: This issue affected the Project Audit and Project Audit Detail reports. When you opened a project in Hubs » Projects » Contract Management and added or updated contracts on the Contract Tab of the Contract Management form, your changes were not included when you generated these reports for that project.


Defect 1509077: When you generated a short Labor Resource Planned and Actual report, it took several minutes to finish.


Defect 1574284: This issue occurred on both the Employee List and Employee Labor Detail reports. When you added a multiline footer and then downloaded a PDF version of the report, the footer's multiple lines were truncated.


Defect 1621308: This issue occurred if you included user-defined fields in the Labor Detail report. The total value for the user-defined columns was not displayed.


Defect 1621848: This issue occurred on the Resource Utilization by Organization report when you saved it as a favorite report. When you changed the settings in the Probability % Range fields on the Chart tab of the report options, an error message about the start range and end range was displayed below the modified field.


Defect 1625443: When you ran the AR Aged report, the generated output did not include the Last Receipt and Retainer's Balance columns. This issue occurred if you set the report options as follows:

  1. On the Columns & Groups tab, you grouped data using a user-defined field or any of the following fields:

  1. On the Options tab, you selected the Last Receipt and Retainer's Balance options.


Defect 1627595: On the Project List report, the proposal due dates of projects were not displayed in the Due Date column.


Defect 1628679: When you created a Summarized Timesheet report, the Name field on the Reports tab of the Reporting form displayed the report name using English (International), which was the language selected in the initial login. When you generated the report, however, the title of the report used English (United States) as the language.


Defect 1630314: This issue occurred when you created an Asset Summary report and included the following columns:

When you generated the report, some records did not have values for these columns.


Defect 1631191: This issue occurred on the Account Analysis report if you use multiple currencies. On the Options tab of the report options, when you set the Report In option to Presentation Currency, the currency amounts were incorrect in applicable columns on the report.


Defect 1633279: This issue occurred on the Project Detail report. When you selected the Display Labor Amounts option on the Options tab of report options and saved the report as a favorite report, the Display Labor Amounts option was no longer selected when you reviewed the report settings.


Defect 1634281: This issue occurred on the Resource Utilization by Company report. Planned hours from overhead projects were excluded from total values. The excluded planned hours were displayed with an asterisk.


Defect 1635082: This issue occurred on the Resource Utilization by Organization report. Soft booked hours were included in the report even when you did not select the Include Soft Booked Hours option on the Options tab of the report options.


Notifications


Defect 1608488: When you clicked the links under the Client column in the AR Aging Alert notification email message, the links redirected you to the desktop application instead of the browser application.


Payroll >> Export to Pay Interface


Defect 1626466: On the Hours tab, when you inserted a new entry and clicked Save, you received a "Code Type is required" error message.


Purchasing >> Purchase Orders


Defect 1518989: You were unable to release a blanket purchase order line item when the unit price for the line item had a decimal value that was equal to, or below, .50. In the validation message, the unit price values displayed were rounded down to the whole number. This issue occurred when you did not specify a value in the Not To Exceed field on the Agreement tab, under the Blanket Order section.

For example, you had approved line items with unit prices of 100.50, 99.49, and 98.48. When you submitted the release, a validation message displayed that rounded down decimals to whole numbers as follows: 100.00, 99.00, and 98.00.


Defect 1628314: This issue occurred if you use multiple currencies. On the Supporting Documents dialog box, which you access from the Line Items tab, the currency used in the Amount field did not match the currency that was configured in the Currency Code field of the General tab.


Defect 1630429: This issue occurred for vouchers that were created from a purchase order. If you unposted the purchase order in Purchasing » Purchase Orders, in the desktop application, and then you closed the affected voucher in Purchasing » Purchase Orders in the browser application, you received a warning message indicating that the selected voucher was from an unposted purchase order. When you accepted the warning, you received a separate error message.


Resource Management >> Resource View


Defect 1609032: This issue occurred if your role did not have record-level view access for an employee record. When you clicked an employee name in the Resource/Level column on the Resource View form, the Labor Category incorrectly displayed None on the employee card.


Settings >> Accounting >> User Defined Revenue


Defect 1607230: This issue occurred if you, on the Revenue Methods form, deleted a revenue method currently used in a project template. When you tried to update forms that used the affected project template, you received an error message indicating that the revenue code does not exist and that the "RevenueMethod" value would not be set. (Deleting a revenue method that is currently used in a project template should not have been possible.)


Settings >> Labels and Lists >> Lists


Defect 1603796: This issue occurred when more than 200 records were displayed on the NAICS dialog box. If you added a new NAICS entry, closed the dialog box, and then redisplayed it, the new NAICS entry was listed in a random row, rather than at the bottom of the list.


Settings >> Workflow


Defect 1626815: This issue occurred when you copied a user-initiated or scheduled workflow, and the copied workflow appeared on the row next to the original workflow. When you clicked the [image] Ellipsis in the Conditions field of the copied workflow, the Conditions Dialog box of the succeeding workflow displayed and the copied workflow was moved to the bottom row of the grid.


Defect 1637894: If you named the Vantagepoint virtual directory "EXP," the approval administrator specified for a workflow did not receive a notification email when expense report approval assignments failed.


Settings >> Workflow >> Scheduled Workflows


Defect 1585688: This issue occurred when you either refreshed the web page or navigated to another area of Vantagepoint and then returned to the Scheduled Workflows form. When you displayed the actions for a scheduled workflow, the actions in the Actions grid were arranged in a different sequence.


Defect 1610396: When you tried to create an email for an employee record in a scheduled workflow and selected Employee Fields from the Select Attendees From options of the Email Configuration dialog box, both Employee and Employee Number fields were available as recipients.


Defect 1637850: When you added multiple rows of conditions to a scheduled workflow, you were unable to save your settings and close the Conditions dialog box.


Settings >> Workflow >> User Initiated Workflows


Defect 1532908: When you tried to configure a Column (Field) Change action for a project type, user initiated workflow, the Contract Number column was not available as an option in the Column field on the Column Change Configuration dialog box.


Transaction Center >> AP Invoice Approvals


Defect 1572485: When you displayed the AP Invoice Approvals form in detail view and then navigated away from it without modifying the record, you received the following message: "You will lose all unsaved changes if you leave this page."


Transaction Center >> Time and Expense Posting


Defect 1618961: When you tried to post a timesheet record of a specific employee on the Time and Expense Posting form, you received an "invalid labor code" error message. This issue occurred even when you specified a default labor code for the employee in the Employees hub.


Transaction Center >> Transaction Entry


Defect 1645936: This issue applies if Use Files to Group Transactions is set to No in Settings » Accounting » Transactions. In Transaction Entry, when you created a new transaction (any type) and you clicked Save or Post, a "Please Wait" message displayed on the screen and you were unable to proceed.


Transaction Center >> Transaction Entry >> Cash Disbursements


Defect 1599707: When you tried to post a cash disbursement, you intermittently received this error: "One or more accounts in this transaction cannot be used with USD currency."


Utilities >> Integrations >> QuickBooks


Defect 1568822: On the Integration Setup tab on the QuickBooks form, when you entered an account number in the Default Tax Credit Account and Default Tax Debit Account fields, the account number and name displayed in the fields. After you moved off the tab and then returned to it, the account names no longer displayed in the fields.


Defect 1621821: On the Vendor tab in the Vantagepoint Firms hub, the value in the Vendor Type field for existing vendors was incorrectly changed to the default vendor type when vendor payments in QuickBooks were synchronized in Vantagepoint.


Defect 1631719: On the Accounts Mapping tab and the Employee Mapping tab of the QuickBooks form, when you entered the first few letters of an account or vendor record in the QuickBooks Online Reference field, no results were returned from your search.


Utilities >> Key Conversions


Defect 1645107: This issue occurred if your database contained a large number of project records when you navigated to any of the following areas in Utilities » Key Conversions and chose to combine records or change numbers: Phases, Tasks, Enable Phases/Tasks, Disable Phases/Tasks, Organizations, or Projects. When you selected the area path, you received an error message before you entered any values on the form.


Utilities >> Key Conversions >> Enable Phases >> Tasks


Defect 1301059: You could not enable multiple phases/tasks on the Enable Phases/Tasks form if those phases and tasks belonged to the same project. As a result, you had to enable the phases and tasks one at a time.


Utilities >> Key Conversions >> Projects


Defect 1644082: This issue applies if your security role has access to the Key Conversions utility only for Projects, Phases, and Tasks and not full access to all the utility applications under the Utilities menu. When you opened the Key Conversions utility for Projects, entered information to change a project's number, and then clicked Run, you received a "You do not have access" error message.


Defect 1646634: On the Projects form, you were unable to schedule a key conversion for a project. When you clicked Schedule nothing happened. This issue occurred if you had PIM integration enabled and no hubs were selected for the Hubs to Sync to PIM option in Utilities » Integrations » PIM.


Utilities >> Process Server >> Queue Manager


Defect 1612289: This issue occurred if, in My Stuff » Reporting, you scheduled a recurring job for a report. After the Process Server ran the first occurrence of the job, you checked the details of the next job run in Utilities » Process Server » Queue Manager. On the Process Queue Detail dialog box, the date in the Start After field did not match the option that you selected in the Recurrence Pattern field when scheduling the recurring job.


Defect 1631035: This issue occurred if you were logged on as a user without administrator access. When you tried to resubmit a process server job, you received an error message that read "You do not have access error."


Utilities >> Updates >> Search and Replace


Defect 1599585: When you set the Field to Update option to either Timesheet Administration Level or Expense Administration Level, the drop-down list displayed the labor code instead of displaying Staff.


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