Deltek Costpoint 8.0.20 Release Notes (Build 8.0.20.5001)


Welcome to the Deltek Costpoint 8.0.20 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 8.0.20, 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 all Costpoint systems selected. If a Time & Expense segment exists, the installer searches for the presence of a Time & Expense license in that Costpoint system, and lists any systems for which there is no Time & Expense license.

 

If a prompt displays, review the list and select the appropriate action:

Any stand-alone, external Time & Expense segments for which a Time & Expense license is not present, or for which the Time & Expense segment is for a Time & Expense 901 system, will not have the MR Time & Expense patches, SPs, or Data Dictionary files applied to them. These Time & Expense segments are marked as External TESS segments.

 

If you are unsure, please contact Deltek Costpoint Technical Support.


Regulatory Enhancements


Federal


2022 Additional Amount for Nonresident Alien Employees

The Compute Payroll application now supports the updated additional amount for a nonresident alien employee who has not submitted a Form W-4 for 2020 or later. The application will now use the following amounts in the withholding tax calculation of both federal and territory:


2022 Form 941 Updates (DRAFT)

The draft Form 941, which has a March 2022 revision date, contained several changes when compared with the version in effect for the second through fourth quarters of 2021. The changes are the following:

A draft of revised instructions for Form 941, Employer’s Quarterly Federal Tax Return, were released January 31 by the Internal Revenue Service. The changes are the following:

Earlier versions of Form 941 may not be used for reporting in 2022.

 

Print Quarterly Federal Payroll Tax Report (PRRFDTAX)

When you enter 2022 or later in the Payroll Year field, the screen disables the fields in the Employee Retention Credit group box.

The Quarterly Federal Payroll Tax Report features the following updates:

The following changes are implemented in the new report:


State


2022 SUTA Wage Base

This Costpoint release adds tax table records effective January 1, 2022 for states where the unemployment-taxable wage base has been updated for tax year 2022.

Note: This enhancement requires patch dbc_800_10841.

 

West Virginia

The SUTA limit for 2022 decreases from $12,000 to $9,000.


Arkansas 2022 Tax Table Updates

Arkansas’s withholding formula, effective Jan. 1, 2022, was released by the state Department of Finance and Administration. The following are the updates:

To support the state updates, this release applies changes to the following screens:

Attention: For more information, refer to: https://www.dfa.arkansas.gov/images/uploads/incomeTaxOffice/whformula.pdf.

Note: This enhancement requires patch dbc_800_10837.


Ohio SUTA Electronic Filing

According to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, the ICESA file format has been updated for the new tax system, The SOURCE (State of Ohio Unemployment Resource for Claimants and Employers).

To support the state requirements, this release updates multiple screens in Costpoint.

Attention: For more information, refer to the Ohio Employer’s Guide to Electronic Quarterly Unemployment Insurance Tax Filing: http://www.odjfs.state.oh.us/forms/num/JFS%2007150/.

Note: This enhancement requires patch dbc_800_10829.

 

Manage Employee Taxes (PRMETAX)

The Owner and Occupational/SOC Code fields on the Manage Employee Taxes screen now apply to Ohio. The corresponding labels on the screen were updated.

Note: This update also applies to the Taxes subtask on the Manage Employee Information screen.

 

Manage SUTA Quarterly Reporting Data (PRMQRD)

You can now select Ohio's adjustment reason codes from the Adjustment Reason Code field.

 

Manage SUTA Tax File Data (PRMSMM)

The screen provides the following updates for Ohio:

 

Create Quarterly SUTA Tax File (PRPSMM)

The screen provides the following updates for Ohio:


Enhancements


Installation

MR Installer

The 8.0.20 MR installer has been updated to include the latest quarterly patch release for WebLogic 12.2.1.4, including log4j version 2 fixes.

Also, the Java Development Kit (JDK) has been upgraded to version 1.8.0_321 and is installed with the Costpoint 8.0.20 MR installer.

The WebLogic 12.2.1.4 January 2022 CVE patch is included in the 8.0.20 MR installer to fix issues related to log4j version 1.


People

Employee Taxes

Colorado 2022 Tax Table Updates

Colorado introduced a new state W-4. Previously, Colorado employees used the federal W-4. Now, employees have the option of using either the federal W-4 or the new withholding certificate, Form DR 0004, Colorado Employee Withholding Certificate. The two certificates are similar, but the DR 0004 allows employees to specify a standard deduction amount that differs from the federal standard deduction amount. This change also caused a change to Step 2a of Colorado’s state withholding formula.

The steps of the formula that reduce the amount of taxable wages and take into account additional withholding were changed to accommodate Form DR 0004.

In Step 2a of the formula, the standard amounts of $8,000 or $4,000 that depend on an employee’s federal filing status are replaced with the amount from Line 2 of Form DR 0004 if the employee filled out the form. In Step 2e, for additional state withholding, the amount from Line 3 of Form DR 0004 is used if filled out. However, if the employee requested additional withholding before 2022, that amount can be used until the employee submits a new withholding certificate.

Compared to a draft of Form DR 0004 released Sept. 26, the final version adds an additional income bracket for the child tax credit allowance values on Worksheet 1, fills in amounts that were represented by placeholders in the draft, and makes changes to phrasing in the instructions.

Form DR 0004 is optional to fill out, but employers are required to provide it to employees who ask about adjusting their state withholding. Starting in 2022, employees who wish to adjust their state withholding must use Form DR 0004 to do so.

Attention: For more information, refer to:

 

State Withholding (ESMSTATEWH)

The State Withholding screen now provides Colorado employees the option of basing their state withholding on either the federal W-4 or Colorado’s withholding certificate (DR 0004). The following are the screen updates:

Note: The updates on the State Withholding screen also apply to the State Withholding tab on the Life Events/New Hires screen.

Field

Description

I would like to:

Use this setting to specify the annual withholding allowance that will be used to reduce your Colorado withholding. Select one of the following options:

  • Use the federal standard deduction amount for my filing status ($8,000 if married filing jointly or qualifying widow(er); or $4,000 otherwise).

  • Specify an annual withholding allowance amount based on the Standard Allowance table and Worksheet 1 from the DR 0004 Colorado Employee Withholding Certificate (If you want a greater amount withheld, you may enter a smaller amount than either calculation.)

Annual Withholding Allowance

If you selected the option to specify an annual withholding amount, enter the annual withholding allowance amount based on the Standard Allowance table and Worksheet 1 from the DR 0004 Colorado Employee Withholding Certificate. If you want a greater amount withheld, you may enter a smaller amount than either calculation.

Old Label

New Label

Total Allowances

Total Allowances/Exemptions

Total Dependents

Number of Dependents

Total Credits

Number of Credits

Additional Withholding

Extra Withholding per Paycheck

Total Age 65 or Over Exemptions

Age 65 or Over Exemptions

Total Blindness Exemptions

Blindness Exemptions

Additional Information

State Information

 

Manage Employee Taxes (PRMETAX)

The Manage Employee Taxes screen provides the ability to set up Colorado state tax withholding for employees based on either the federal W-4 or the Colorado withholding certificate (DR 0004).

Note: The changes on the Manage Employee Taxes screen also apply to the Taxes tab on the Manage Employee Information screen.

The screen format was updated to accommodate new state withholding controls and to allow for the addition of future controls. The following are the changes:

Field

Description

Use State Standard Deduction Table

Select this option to use the data from the Manage State Standard Deductions screen to determine the standard deduction amount. If you select this option, the Annual Withholding Allowance field will be hidden.

Use Amount from the Colorado DR 0004

Select this option to use the annual withholding allowance amount to determine the standard deduction amount.

Annual Withholding Allowance

Enter the annual withholding allowance amount. This field is only visible and enabled if you select the Use Amount from the Colorado DR 0004 option.

Note: The new Colorado Deduction options will be enabled only if the Withholding State is CO (Colorado). If the Withholding State is not CO, the options are disabled, and the screen sets the standard deduction to Use State Standard Deduction Table.

 

View Employee Taxes (PRQETAX)

The screen format was updated to accommodate new state withholding controls and to allow for the addition of future controls. The following are the changes:

Field

Description

Use State Standard Deduction Table

This option indicates if the data from the Manage State Standard Deductions screen is used to determine the standard deduction amount. If this option is selected, the Annual Withholding Allowance field is hidden.

Use Amount from the Colorado DR 0004

This option indicates if the annual withholding allowance amount is used to determine the standard deduction amount.

Annual Withholding Allowance

This field displays the annual withholding allowance amount. This field is only visible and enabled if you select the Use Amount from the Colorado DR 0004 option.

Note: The new Colorado Deduction options will be enabled only if the Withholding State is CO (Colorado). If the Withholding State is not CO, the options are disabled, and the screen sets the standard deduction to Use State Standard Deduction Table.

 

Compute Payroll (PRPCPR)

The State Standard Deduction logic used to calculate the employee’s state withholding was updated.

Costpoint keeps a history of the employee’s tax setup when computing payroll. As part of this, the application stores the following values when the EMPL_PAYROLL record is generated:

 

Manage Payroll Records (PRMPTF)

The Manage Payroll Records screen features the following updates:

Field

Description

Colorado Standard Deduction Source

This field displays the Colorado standard deduction source used by the Compute Payroll screen to calculate the Colorado state withholding amount.

This field will be populated with the employee’s Colorado standard deduction source from the Manage Employee Taxes screen if either the Compute Payroll process or the Recalculate button was used to calculate the state tax withholding. Otherwise, Not Applicable will be displayed in this field.

Colorado Annual Withholding Allowance Amount

If applicable, this field displays the Colorado Annual Withholding Allowance Amount used by the Compute Payroll screen to calculate the Colorado state withholding amount. This field will be populated only if all the following are true:

  • Either the Compute Payroll screen or the Recalculate button was used to calculate the state tax withholding.

  • The Withholding State is CO (Colorado).

  • The employee’s Colorado Standard Deduction Source is Use Colorado DR 0004 Allowance Amount on the Manage Employee Taxes screen.

 

View Payroll Edit Table (PRQPTF)

The View Payroll Edit Table screen features the following updates:

Field

Description

Colorado Standard Deduction Source

This field displays the Colorado Standard Deduction Source used by the Compute Payroll screen to calculate the Colorado state withholding amount.

This field will be populated with the employee’s Colorado Standard Deduction Source from the Manage Employee Taxes screen if either the Compute Payroll process or the Recalculate button was used to calculate the state tax withholding. Otherwise, Not Applicable will be displayed in this field.

Colorado Annual Withholding Allowance Amount

If applicable, this field displays the Colorado Annual Withholding Allowance Amount used by the Compute Payroll screen to calculate the Colorado state withholding amount. This field will be populated only if all the following are true:

  • Either the Compute Payroll screen or the Recalculate button was used to calculate the state tax withholding.

  • The Withholding State is CO (Colorado).

  • The employee’s Colorado Standard Deduction Source is Use Colorado DR 0004 Allowance Amount on the Manage Employee Taxes screen.

 

Post Payroll Journal (PRPPPCLS)

After you run the Post Payroll Journal process, the application populates the following new columns in the EMPL_EARN_STATE table:

 

Manage Employee Earnings History (PRMERF)

The Manage Employee Earnings History screen features the following updates:

Field

Description

Colorado Standard Deduction Source

This field displays the Colorado Standard Deduction Source used by the Compute Payroll screen to calculate the Colorado state withholding amount.

This field will be populated with the employee’s Colorado Standard Deduction Source from the Manage Employee Taxes screen if either the Compute Payroll process or the Recalculate button was used to calculate the state tax withholding. Otherwise, Not Applicable will be displayed in this field.

Colorado Annual Withholding Allowance Amount

If applicable, this field displays the Colorado Annual Withholding Allowance Amount used by the Compute Payroll screen to calculate the Colorado state withholding amount. This field will be populated only if all the following are true:

  • Either the Compute Payroll screen or the Recalculate button was used to calculate the state tax withholding.

  • The Withholding State is CO (Colorado).

  • The employee’s Colorado Standard Deduction Source is Use Colorado DR 0004 Allowance Amount on the Manage Employee Taxes screen.

 

View Employee Earnings (PRQERF)

The View Employee Earnings screen features the following updates:

Field

Description

Colorado Standard Deduction Source

This field displays the Colorado Standard Deduction Source used by the Compute Payroll screen to calculate the Colorado state withholding amount.

This field will be populated with the employee’s Colorado Standard Deduction Source from the Manage Employee Taxes screen if either the Compute Payroll process or the Recalculate button was used to calculate the state tax withholding.

Colorado Annual Withholding Allowance Amount

If applicable, this field displays the Colorado Annual Withholding Allowance Amount used by the Compute Payroll screen to calculate the Colorado state withholding amount. This field will be populated only if all the following are true:

  • Either the Compute Payroll screen or the Recalculate button was used to calculate the state tax withholding.

  • The Withholding State is CO (Colorado).

  • The employee’s Colorado Standard Deduction Source is Use Colorado DR 0004 Allowance Amount on the Manage Employee Taxes screen.

 

Recompute Taxable Wages (PRPRCOMP)

If you select the State check box in the Apply Employee’s Current Taxability group box, Costpoint will keep a history of the employee’s tax setup when recomputing taxable wages. When the application recomputes an EMPL_EARN_STATE record, it stores the following values:

 

Void/Replace Posted Paychecks (PRPAVCK)

When the application generates a V record, it copies the following values from the voided earnings record (on the EMPL_EARN_STATE table) to the V payroll record (on the EMPL_PR_STATE table):

When the application generates a W record, it copies the following values from the voided earnings record (on the EMPL_EARN_STATE table) to the W payroll record (on the EMPL_PR_STATE table):

 

Print Data Dictionary Report (SYRDD)

The Print Data Dictionary Report now provides information for the new Colorado Deduction fields.


Projects

Application Optimization

The following applications have been enhanced to process more efficiently and decrease their runtime during simultaneous or batch processing. Deltek recommends that you install the Costpoint 8.0.20 MR in a test environment and test the applications before deploying the MR to production.


Software Issues Resolved


Accounting


Accounts Payable >> Import Accounts Payable Multicurrency Vouchers


Defect 1604317: When you selected the Freeze Rates check boxes on the Exchange Rates subtask and clicked Apply, Costpoint cleared the Freeze Rates check boxes.


Accounts Payable >> Import Vendor Employees


Defect 1575448: When you imported vendor employees, Costpoint was unable to automatically enter the Country Code of vendor employees that have a Mail State but no Country Code. As a workaround, manually enter the Country Code on the Manage Vendor Employees screen.


Defect 1585730: When you used an input file that contains both valid and invalid records, Costpoint stopped the import process when it encountered an invalid record. This occurred even when you selected the Continue to process with error records check box.


Accounts Payable >> Import Vendors


Defect 1590759: When you imported vendors, Costpoint was unable to automatically enter the Country Code of vendors that have a Mail State but no Country Code. As a workaround, manually enter the Country Code on the Manage Vendors screen.


Contracts


Contracts >> Manage Contracts


Defect 1490556: On the Contract Primes subtask of the Team tab, an error message displayed when you entered a value with trailing spaces in the Prime ID field.


Opportunities >> Import GovWin IQ Data


Defect 1550218: The system will no longer refresh the Date Opened field value on the Status tab of the Manage Opportunities screen. This field will still be populated with the date when the record was initially imported from GovWin IQ, but will no longer be updated/refreshed when you re-run the Import GovWin IQ Data application. This is to allow you to change this date and not have it overwritten by the interface.


Framework


External Tools >> XTDESIGNER


Defect 1613627: The following extensibility formula error occurred when you tried to add a formula to enable a drop-down control in the Extensibility Console: "Error: java.lang.Exception: Can't parse formula :XT_LVL_NO==3 || isRowNew ( );Result set id: null; Object id: XT_NTE_FL;Formula type: formula".


Runtime >> Server


Defect 1604968: You could not escape duoble quotes when sending data to JSON web service.


Materials


Engineering Change Notices >> Print Engineering Change Notice Impact Report


Defect 1596295: When you tried to print an Engineering Change Notice (ECN) Impact Report, and the COMP_LN_NO column had five (5) characters and exploded the bills of material (BOM) past level 35, you encountered a system error.


Material Requirements Planning >> Update Material Requirements Plan


Defect 1585232: When you ran Materials Requirement Planning (MRP), it generated planned supply orders for a lot-controlled part that had the same lot in two other warehouses and had an allocated quantity to a manufacturing order (MO). This happened even though there was enough inventory to cover all demands so that no supply reservations should have been generated.


Procurement Planning >> Apply PO Info to Purchase Requisitions


Defect 1590885: When you saved a record, you encountered an error stating that the PO/Rlse has been assigned to another ungenerated Assign PO line even if there is no ungenerated record left.


Procurement Planning >> Manage Purchase Requisitions


Defect 1612656: When you changed the description of a MISC line type to a value that existed in the ITEM.ITEM_DESC, the corresponding Item Id and Line Type were loaded instead of retaining the Misc charge along with the line type of M. This issue also occurred when using web services.


Purchasing >> Import Purchase Orders


Defect 1609198: When you updated the Project/Account/Org via Import Purchase Orders, the Project and Account were updated, but the Org was not updated on the Manage Purchase Orders screen.


Purchasing >> Manage Purchase Orders


Defect 1608791: You were unable to change the purchase order (PO) line accounts allocation rate via the Web Integration Console (WIC).


Defect 1612657: When you changed the description of a MISC line type to a value that existed in the ITEM.ITEM_DESC, the corresponding Item ID and Line Type were loaded, and the value of the MISC Type was cleared.


Sales Order Entry >> Create Invoices


Defect 1608262: When you created sales orders (SO) and invoices using multicurrency with a conversion from GBP to USD, and the invoice was created and ready to be posted, the posting failed due to an out-of-balance amount.


Sales Order Entry >> Manage Sales Orders Supervisor Screen


Defect 1599818: You were unable to extend a net unit price with more than two (2) decimals on the sales order (SO).


People


Benefits >> Create 1094-C and 1095-C Data


Defect 1607240: The application did not assign Code 2D to the employee on the employee’s first calendar month of employment. This issue occurred if the employee’s hire date was not on the first day of the calendar month.


Defect 1610527: The source of the plan start month should be the benefit year's plan year start date month. It should not be the month of the employee's coverage start date.


Employee Self Service >> Dependents/Beneficiaries


Defect 1572334: The screen should allow employees to change options and save changes in the Type field.


Payroll >> Compute Payroll


Defect 1581926: Earnings were missing from the payroll records of salaried employees when the timesheet was processed in the same payroll as the reversal and replacement timesheet.


Defect 1592749: The application did not subtract 409A (Deferred Compensation) and NQDC (Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation) from the gross amount before the 401k calculation.


Payroll >> Manage Deductions


Defect 1600497: The application should not allow you to select PCTNET as a computation method for 401K Deduction.


Payroll >> Manage Payroll Records


Defect 1611298: The application did not allow you to delete newly entered W and V records due to the following error: “Payroll posting is in progress for pay cycle XXXX. Therefore this record cannot be deleted.”


Personnel >> Manage Managers/HR Reps by HR Organization


Defect 1583384: The screen did not allow you to deactivate an HR Organization if inactive employees were assigned to it.


Planning


Administration >> Maintain Account Mapping


Defect 1604356: Accounts went missing when invalid entries were saved in the COST_TYPE table. However, the accounts will remain visible on the front end even when an error is present, allowing the end user to fix the account without technical intervention.


Administration >> Refresh Process


Defect 1592073: The Burden columns in the Business Intelligence (BI) report tables reflected mismatched amounts.


Project Budgeting >> Project Budgets/EACs


Defect 1585257: When you created a new budget, the application did not display PY_DIFF as ID Type for prior year's non-labor costs.


Defect 1585285: Performance issues related to deadlock were resolved.


Defect 1593460: When you changed a vendor name or a user name, duplicate rows were inserted into the new EAC.


Projects


Billing >> Calculate Progress Payment Bills


Defect 1601337: When you calculated a monthly progress payment bill, the Line 26 value that displayed on the 1443 bill was incorrect (displayed on the Line Info 20-26 tab of the Manage Progress Payment Bills screen).


Billing >> Calculate Standard Bills


Defect 1609295: When you calculated multicurrency bills for currencies that do not use decimals, the Select Bills for Posting application did not correct values for rounding adjustments.

As a workaround, you can manually select bills on the Manage Standard Bills screen to trigger the rounding correction.


Billing >> Post Manual Bills


Defect 1585719: Costpoint allowed duplicate posting sequence when reposting a manual bill that was first posted as a non-project bill (where Project ID is NULL or blank) and then reposted as a project bill (where Project ID is not NULL or blank).


Billing >> Print Unbilled Analysis Report


Defect 1599793: Performance tuning has been conducted for this application to prevent it from hanging when executed.


Budgeting and ETC >> View Estimate To Complete


Defect 1354334: A system error occurred when you tried to view the Project Cost Detail subtask for a fiscal year with cost pool numbers having more than four digits.


Cost and Revenue Processing >> Assign Account Function Codes


Defect 1601563: The application was taking longer than expected to complete processing. Performance tuning has been conducted to improve the application's runtime.


Cost and Revenue Processing >> Process Organization Changes


Defect 1594522: This application was not picking up Beginning Balance records.


Time & Expense


Expense >> Expense Report


Defect 1608090: When you added a manual outstanding expense to a multicurrency expense report, the exchange rate was not drawn from the currency schedule and so defaulted to "1.00."


Time >> Manage/Approve Timesheets


Defect 1563704: When you worked with an account-only charge that included a UDT10 in the Charge tree (no restrictions, no duplicate charges in the tree), entering the UDT and tabbing defaulted to the UDT01 description and not the CT Charge UDT10.


Time >> Resource Schedules/Leave


Defect 1591994: When you had multiple roles over an employee, the Approve/Reject Leave task should have been performed using the role for which the task was created, while other roles you held should not have received notifications.


Time >> Timesheet


Defect 1591840: The timesheet for the new period did not include the expected number of days, even though no change had been made to the timesheet schedule.


Defect 1602019: When Include Previous Day(s) Overtime Hours was selected in Timesheet Class settings, the setting was not properly applied during validation, and so errors and warnings failed to display.


Time >> Timesheet Status


Defect 1602168: When you ran the Timesheet Status report, the default text, rather than custom text, was included in emails sent to supervisors.


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