Cobra 8.3 Help System
Welcome to the Deltek Cobra Help System. The Deltek Cobra help system provides help for all areas of the Cobra application.
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Release Documents
In addition to the Cobra Help System, the following documents are also available for Cobra 8.3:
- Deltek Cobra 8.3 Installation Guide
- Deltek Cobra 8.3 Essentials
- Deltek Cobra 8.3 Release Notes
- Deltek Cobra 8.3 Technical Overview and System Requirements
- Deltek Cobra Data Structure
Attention: For the Cobra 8.3 Cumulative Update release notes, see
Cobra 8.3 Documents.
- Related Topics:
- Getting Started
Cobra is a powerful system for managing project costs, measuring earned value, and analyzing budgets, actuals, and forecasts. - Projects
A project is a collection of projects usually corresponding to a contract. A project in generic terms is a set of activities directed to an overall goal. - Calendars
Spreading budgets, summarizing costs, and reporting depend on calendars to determine the dates and time spans of the summarized costs. - Codes
By setting up a coding system and assigning codes to your project, you can display project data at a summary level, a detailed level, or any level within the project. A good coding system provides clear and concise information. - Rates
Cobra uses rate sets to store multipliers that are used in generating derived costs. - Resources
Cobra project costs are entered as resource assignments. Resources are a combination of labor, material, and other direct costs associated with a project. - Reports
Use the Reports feature of Cobra to generate reports that meet your firm's specific needs. - Batch Reports
Use the batch reports feature to generate a number of reports for a project, as a group. - Project Processes
Use processes such as advancing the calendar, calculating earned value, and respreading budgeted costs to maintain and analyze your project data. - Integration
The Integration tab contains commands for importing to and exporting from Cobra. - Tools
Cobra provides a number of tools related to project-wide functions. - Security
System administrators can use Cobra security features to grant or restrict users' access to data and processes. - Cobra Database
A data source is a named connection to a database. Before you can build a connection to a database, you must first have a database to which you connect. - Cobra Developer Resources
Developer resources are available for Cobra versions 8.3 and 8.4. Use the links below to access the documentation system for each version. - Concurrency in Cobra
Cobra leverages the PM Compass Process Server to support concurrency when running Cobra processes. - Advanced Topics
This section contains additional information about Cobra. - Data Dictionary
The Cobra Data Dictionary provides information about all available data tables, columns, and indexes in the Cobra database. You can view the data dictionary from within the Cobra Help system. You do not need to save it to your workstation.