Deltek Costpoint 7.1.16 Release Notes (Build 7.1.16.1001)


Welcome to the Deltek Costpoint 7.1.16 Release Notes, which describe the new features and enhancements introduced in this release.


Important Notes


These release notes address all of the modules associated with Deltek Costpoint 7.1.16, some of which your firm may not use. Skip the sections that do not apply to your implementation of Deltek Costpoint.

Release notes are available from the landing page and the Costpoint Information Center. We will make a PDF available for a while, as we transition to the new format.

We want the release notes to be as easy to use as possible. To this end, we will continue to analyze and improve upon the format. If you have feedback, please email DeltekDocumentationFeedback@deltek.com.

 

Installation Notes

 

The MR installer reads through all Costpoint systems selected. If a Time & Expense segment is found, it searches for the presence of a Time & Expense license for that Costpoint system. It provides a listing of all such systems found, prompting you to review the list and remove (using DBWizard, Remove License) any TE license from the Costpoint system where the connected TE segment is for a stand-alone, external connection that should not have had a Time & Expense license applied to it.

 

Any external Time & Expense segments found where a Time & Expense license is not present, or where the Time & Expense segment is for a Time & Expense 901 system, the MR Time & Expense patches, SPs, or Data Dictionary files will not be applied.

 

If all systems listed are properly licensed for Time & Expense and you do want the MR applied to them, please proceed. If you are unsure, please contact Deltek Technical Support.


Regulatory Enhancements


Federal


2021 Federal Poverty Level

Costpoint adds the following updates to the Manage Federal Taxes screen for the 2021 payroll year:

Note: This enhancement requires PATCH3831.


State


Colorado 2021 SUTA Electronic Filing

Colorado released its FTP guide for quarterly wage reports, which will be implemented by the first quarter due date of tax year 2021. The format changed for the Reporting Quarter and Year field in positions 215-220 of the ICESA S record.

The Reporting Quarter and Year field should provide the year (four digits) and then the quarter (two digits: 01, 02, 03, or 04) in the YYYYQQ format. For example, the new format for the 1st quarter of 2021 is 202101.

This release updates the Create Quarterly SUTA Tax File (PRPSMM) screen to support Colorado’s new requirement.

Attention: For more information, refer to: https://cdle.colorado.gov/sites/cdle/files/documents/WageFTPInstructions.pdf.


Maryland 2021 Tax Table Updates

The maximum standard deduction used in the percentage methods increased from $2,300 to $2,350 annually.

Attention: For more information, refer to: https://marylandtaxes.gov/forms/20_forms/Withholding_Guide.pdf.

Note: This enhancement requires PATCH3830.


Michigan 2021 SUTA Wage Base

The SUTA limit for 2021 is $9,500. This Costpoint release adds tax table records effective 01/01/2021 for the updated unemployment-taxable wage base of Michigan for tax year 2021.

Note: This enhancement requires PATCH3831.


Enhancements


Installation

MR Installer Update

The Costpoint 7.1.16 MR installer has been updated to include support and compatibility for WebLogic 12.2.1.3.

Also, the Java Development Kit (JDK) has been upgraded to version 1.8.0_281.


Software Issues Resolved


Accounting


Accounts Payable >> Manage Purchase Order Vouchers


Defect 1420432: When you deleted a voucher for a subcontractor invoice, Costpoint reset the audit table information for all vouchers related to that invoice instead of resetting the audit table information only for the deleted voucher.

This happened when you:


Multicurrency >> Update Open Accounts Payable Exchange Rates


Defect 1412387: If you are using Costpoint with an Oracle 19c database, you encountered system performance issues when you processed open accounts payable exchange rates.


Multicurrency >> Update Open Accounts Receivable Exchange Rates


Defect 1412396: If you are using Costpoint with an Oracle 19c database, you encountered system performance issues when you processed open accounts receivable exchange rates.


Framework


External Tools >> INTGR


Defect 1415791: You might have received the following error when you tried to log into the Costpoint Web Integration Utility: "Can't verify user/password combination: null". As a workaround, you can create a Database authenticated user.


Materials


Bills of Material >> Compute Costed Bills of Material


Defect 1407596: When you processed a large bill of materials (BOM), you encountered an error.


Inventory >> Enter Issues to Project/Account/Org or PO


Defect 1410795: When you performed reversal of unposted records, Costpoint took a long time to process the reversal.


Inventory >> Enter Quantity Adjustments


Defect 1417896: When you reversed or cloned an existing Quantity Adjustment (QA) where the Proj Abbrev field was blank, the following hard error displayed: “The following field does not allow trailing spaces: Adjusting Proj Abbrev.” However, if you entered a new QA with the same Inv Abbrev and Project, the new QA was saved successfully.


Inventory >> Import Inventory Transactions


Defect 1418804: The Inventory Preprocessor threw a critical error when you tried to issue parts that were in the manufacturing order (MO) requirement table as well as parts that were being substituted and did not exist in the MO requirement table in the same transaction upload.


Inventory >> Print Shelf Life Report


Defect 1410501: When you are logged into a specific company and you printed the shelf life report, parts from another company were displayed in the report, causing incorrect reporting.


Material Requirements Planning >> Update Material Requirements Plan


Defect 1420521: The application logic has been changed so that planned order is sorted by Inventory Abbreviation and Need Date, and combined using Project Planning Group Inventory Abbreviation. This will result in no late supply and no transfers, but may lose volume discounts due to limited combination of planned orders.


Product Definition >> Import Items


Defect 1402583: When parts/items were separated by company, you were unable to load parts and costs even though you were logged into the the company where the parts exist.


Production Control >> Manage Manufacturing Orders


Defect 1415710: When you created an extension that generated all the planned and need by dates of routing operations using data from Manufacturing Execution System (MES), the updates were not exported to MES because the application did not update the ROUTING_CHNG_DTT column after you did a save.


Purchasing >> Manage Purchase Orders


Defect 1413895: When you entered a new line with the same line charge as the last saved purchase order (PO) and you tabbed out, the PO line description of the last PO line was changed to the default line charge description of the new PO line.


Sales Order Entry >> Import Sales Orders


Defect 1414074: When you used the same Item IDs (with different item keys and the Separate Items By Company check box was selected), the preprocessor did not reflect the item keys that matched your logged-in company, but picked an item key that it came to first for the Item ID.


People


Labor >> Export Project Manufacturing Data


Defect 1420390: Costpoint created excessive number of records when creating salary changes for Shop Floor Time employees. This occurred when an employee has two records being sent from Salary Info and History, and multiple user-defined records were included.


Payroll >> Create ACH Bank File


Defect 1402757: The application should allow you to generate a direct deposit file for a pay cycle where the employees within that pay cycle are assigned to different taxable entities.


Payroll >> Manage Deductions


Defect 1424630: The deduction type description for the CSGARN deduction type should be changed from “Child Support Garnishment” to “Child/SpouseSupportGarnishment.”


Payroll >> Print Payment Advices


Defect 1412676: The payment advices did not display correct year-to-date (YTD) amounts.


Payroll >> Recompute Taxable Wages


Defect 1423863: The Medicare limit has been increased to 999,999,999.99 to accommodate employees with more than $10,000,000 in wages. However, you received an SQL error when you ran the Recompute Taxable Wages process for an employee with more than $10,000,000 in wages.


Planning


Administration >> Refresh Process


Defect 1420597: Refresh of CER tables took longer than expected.


Projects


Billing >> Create iRAPT Billing Files


Defect 1417865: When you tried to create an iRAPT FTP file containing more than 400 bill nodes, a critical system error occurred.


Billing >> Post Standard Bills


Defect 1416255: The application allowed posting to inactive account/organization combinations.


Cost and Revenue Processing >> Compute Burden Costs


Defect 1406992: When you ran this application for a whole period, the numbers in other subperiods were repeated when the value should have been zero. As a workaround, you can compute burden costs per subperiod.


Cost and Revenue Processing >> Load Labor Rates


Defect 1396379: Performance tuning was performed for Load Labor Rates in MSS databases to decrease the application's runtime.


Cost and Revenue Processing >> Post Revenue


Defect 1415943: The application allowed posting to inactive account/organization combinations.


Cost and Revenue Processing >> Redistribute Revenue


Defect 1408988: The missing COMPANY_ID has been added to some SQL statements to improve the application's performance.


Project Inquiry and Reporting >> Update Project Status Report Tables


Defect 1408991: The missing COMPANY_ID has been added to some SQL statements to improve the application's performance.


Subcontractor Management >> Create Subcontractor Invoices


Defect 1412947: When you reversed a subcontractor invoice voucher and then posted the reversal, Costpoint did not clear the Voucher Created check box on the Manage Open Subcontractor Detail screen.


Subcontractor Management >> Manage Subcontractor Invoices


Defect 1420423: When you deleted an invoice or invoice line, Costpoint changed the SUBC_TS_LN.IN_PROCESS_FL value from Y to N even if other invoices still exist for that record.


Time & Expense


Configuration >> Import Master Data


Defect 1406584: Changes were made to the charge import process to improve performance.


Defect 1415454: Currency Schedule (version 0) (Exchange Rate Service) failed to import. Instead, the file was moved from the import folder to the trash folder, with no import error reported.


Expense >> Manage Batch Expense


Defect 1413476: An "Invalid Amount" error occurred when you imported AMEX (KR1025) charges from the United Kingdom.


Defect 1413569: When you imported VISA batches with the Wizard Type Indentification subtask set to direct the transaction to a different pay method, the import process instead used the main Batch types pay method.


Expense >> Manage Expense Authorization


Defect 1422403: If your role allowed you to modify submitted expense reports (for example, to change a lodging expense to Other) without setting the report back to Draft status, some pending tasks were deleted from the workflow table.


Expense >> Manage Expense Report


Defect 1300543: If your role allowed you to modify submitted expense reports (for example, to change a lodging expense to Other) without setting the report back to Draft status, some pending tasks were deleted from the workflow table.


Defect 1404790: The Expense Date was not modifiable on imported credit card expenses, even though configuration settings allowed expense date editing.


Time >> Timesheet Status


Defect 1413425: When current and previous timesheet periods were present and you saved the parameter, you received an error message declaring that the current period did not exist. 


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