Deltek Costpoint 8.1.10 Release Notes (Build 8.1.10.5002)


Welcome to the Deltek Costpoint 8.1.10 Release Notes, which describe the new features, enhancements, and software corrections introduced in this release.


Important Notes


These release notes address all of the modules associated with Deltek Costpoint 8.1.10, 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.


Regulatory Enhancements


State


Idaho Tax Table Update

Idaho’s 2022 withholding methods were released by the state tax commission. The percentage method implements tax rate cuts in a bill (H.B. 436). The bill reduced the number of tax rates used to four instead of five and reduces the highest rate used to 6% instead of 6.5%. Other updates include the following:

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

Attention: For more information, refer to:

Note: This enhancement requires patch dbc_810_10937.


Software Issues Resolved


Accounting


Accounts Payable >> Import Vendor Employees


Defect 1670104: You encountered an error when you imported a vendor employee with a blank Vendor Employee Name, and their last and first names, when combined, totaled more than 25 characters. As a workaround, enter a first and last name that totals 25 characters or less, and manually update the record on the Manage Vendors or Manage Vendor Employees screen.


Multicurrency >> Manage Exchange Rates by Period


Defect 1696754: When you entered period rates, you encountered an invalid tolerance error because the new rates were incorrectly compared to the rates of the previous year instead of the immediate period or last period.


Multicurrency >> Manage Period Exchange Rates


Defect 1647344: When you entered period rates, you encountered an invalid tolerance error because the new rates were incorrectly compared to the rates of the previous year instead of the immediate period or last period.


Admin


System Administration >> Configure User Preferences


Defect 1688957: Costpoint did not recognize records marked for deletion and incorrectly gave an error when a Group Header name was reused.


System Administration >> Manage User Interface Profiles


Defect 1688983: You could not edit the Group Header Lines to change the letter case only in My Menu on the Manage User Interface Profiles screen. An error stating duplicates are not allowed occurred.


Defect 1688995: Costpoint did not recognize records marked for deletion and incorrectly gave an error when the Group Header name was reused in Manage User Interface Profiles.


Workflow >> Approval Workflow Models


Defect 1695406: A system error occurred in the Approval Workflow Models application when the Edit Activity » Updates/Condition subtask line was left blank and you selected the Test Mode check box and saved the workflow process.


CRM & Contracts


Contracts >> Manage Contracts


Defect 1674015: Costpoint displayed an error message when you opened a contract with duplicate modifications. In addition, the system automatically created a message record on the Administrative Messages screen in relation to that error.

This defect affects clients with menuOnlyApps in enterprise properties.


Defect 1684683: A system error occurred when you deleted 20 or more records on this screen.


Framework


Change in Behavior


Defect 1698952: You could not save application layout changes in 8.1.x.


External Tools >> INTGR


Defect 1698507: Operations with system web services needed to be disabled in the Web Integration Console.


External Tools >> XTDESIGNER


Defect 1701358: A Nullpointerexception error occurred when you used the Required Formula option in the Extensibility Designer.


Framework


Defect 1440950: A system error occurred when you tried to download the Charge Activity report with Excel 2010 selected as the File Type and charges included special characters like ":" or "/".


Defect 1683169: On the Home Dashboard (DBDHM) screen, the dashpart headers doubled when the Manage Dashpart window was open.


Defect 1692355: A system error occurred when there was an escalate role missing in the workflow approval process.


Defect 1692750: When there was only one application right assigned to a module/domain, you could not see the module/domain. You also could not see the module/domain when you entered the name in Browse Application. You could add the application in My Menu and access it from there. However, if you added another screen within the same module, you could see the module/domain.


Defect 1693477: You received the following error when you entered an email with the special character “&” on the Manage Customers (ARMCUST) screen: “The following field does not contain a properly formatted email address: Email Address.”


Defect 1693978: Costpoint did not support Word templates generated with Track Changes turned on.


Defect 1696755: When you tried to set the print options to use System Printer, you received an error that said the Number of Copies must be numeric even though it was set to 1.


Defect 1697283: Batch jobs without a parameter ID would not execute.


Defect 1697318: A Weekly OT validation error occurred when you submitted a timesheet with OT hours in an incomplete week.


Defect 1700157: When you set up an Approval Workflow for the Manage Sales Orders application and the FINISH type was set to update the entity field’s value to Approved, the updates that were set in the FINISH type were not triggered when the NOTIFY type was present in the Approval Flow Structure.


Defect 1700331: On the Manage Cost Pools (PJMPOOL) screen, a Page Unresponsive error occurred when the screen loaded with a saved Application Layout setting and the Use Auto Position mode user interface setting was set to No in Manage Users.

 

This issue occurred in multiple applications:


Runtime


Defect 1705368: Existing and new content management integration (CMI) attachments were missing for FileNet-related links after you upgraded to Costpoint 8.1.8.


Runtime >> Server


Defect 1708019: You could not receive a one-time passcode (OTP) after a Costpoint 8.1 upgrade.


Materials


Engineering Change Notices >> Apply Engineering Change Notices


Defect 1688973: When you executed Apply Engineering Notices for a record, you encountered a system error.


Inventory >> Enter Quantity Adjustments


Defect 1689251: When you performed quantity and scrap adjustments for an inventory transaction, the system displayed an inaccurate value in the USER_RVSN_FLD table in a multi-revision environment.


Inventory >> Enter Scrap Adjustments


Defect 1687677: When you performed quantity and scrap adjustments for an inventory transaction, the system displayed an inaccurate value in the USER_RVSN_FLD table in a multi-revision environment.


Master Production Scheduling >> Update Master Production Schedules


Defect 1682886: When you ran the material requirements plan (MRP), the system allocated inventory to sales orders (SO) after inventory was required for planned orders with need dates prior to the SO need date.


Material Requirements Planning >> Update Material Requirements Plan


Defect 1621209: When you ran the material requirements plan (MRP), the system allocated inventory to sales orders (SO) after inventory was required for planned orders with need dates prior to the SO need date.


Materials Estimating >> Manage Proposal BOM Cost Estimates - Indented


Defect 1689202: You encountered a system error when you opened the Other Cost WS subtask. This happened when the Inventory Abbreviation used for the part was more than 10 characters.


Materials Estimating >> Manage Proposal BOM Cost Estimates - Summarized


Defect 1690325: You encountered a system error when you opened the Other Cost WS subtask. This happened when the Inventory Abbreviation value used for the part had more than 10 characters.


Procurement Planning >> Manage Purchase Requisitions


Defect 1692710: When you attached a document with a blank drawing revision, the system changed to the next available revision.


Production Control >> Manage Manufacturing Orders


Defect 1687406: When you relieved a manufacturing order (MO) with parts that were serial or lot tracked, the system displayed a blank in the non-tracked table column instead of Null.


Defect 1691201: When you queried and checked manufacturing order (MO) requirements, the system created duplicate requirements on MOs with Operationalized Bill of Materials (BOM). This happened when the Manufacturing Bill of Materials (MBOM) part was common stock.


Defect 1700627: When you populated the Build Quantity and Abbreviation before the Build and Part Revision Quantity, the system produced an incorrect Allocation Yield Quantity of zero (0).


Purchasing >> Import Purchase Orders


Defect 1687544: When you clicked the gear icon, Total Records Loaded and Total Errors did not display.


Defect 1698846: When you tried to update the purchase order (PO) due date to a date earlier than the desired date because of shipments received early, you encountered the following error: "The desired date must be less than or equal to the due date."


Purchasing >> Import Subcontract Retainage PO Status Updates


Defect 1687591: When you clicked the gear icon, Total Records Loaded and Total Errors did not display.


Purchasing >> View Purchase Order Status


Defect 1694080: When you posted a purchase order voucher and you verified the PO line amounts, the Open amount did not correspond to the Transactional amount.


Receiving >> Import Purchase Order Receipts


Defect 1687586: When you clicked the gear icon, Total Records Loaded and Total Errors did not display.


Receiving >> Manage Quality Control Inspections


Defect 1696780: Two new hidden fields (table), S_INVT_TRNS_TYPE_INSP and INVT_TRN_LN_KEY_INSP, have been added to the Serial/Lot Info subtask to store the quality control inspection key and transaction type, and to link these to the Customer Managed Inventory (CMI) setup.


Sales Order Entry >> Manage Invoices


Defect 1684590: When you created an invoice with negative quantity, you received a rounding off error in Costpoint.


Defect 1690319: The system doubled the unit cost amount when there were two issue locations.


Sales Order Entry >> Manage Sales Orders


Defect 1689377: When you entered a reservation ID and clicked Save, you encountered an error. This happened when Warehouse Reservation was not auto-assigned and pending sales order (SO) was included as demand.


Sales Order Entry >> Post Sales Order Journal


Defect 1689239: The sales order (SO) journal posted duplicate costs when the SO was issued from two or more locations.


Sales Order Entry >> View Sales Order Status Information


Defect 1689224: The system displayed duplicate inventories on the report when the SO was issued from two or more locations.


People


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


Defect 1618785: The application did not generate ACA 1095-Cs for non-full-time employees that did not have a code of 1G in line 14 and a code of 2B in line 16.

If you opt to not install this update, as a workaround, you can manually generate the 1095-C or perform the following steps:

  1. Run the Analyze Full-Time Equivalent Eligibility process with the Include Part-Time Employees check box selected.

  2. On the Manage Full-Time Equivalent Eligibility screen, query the part-time employees, select the following options, and save the record.

  1. Run the Create 1094-C and 1095-C Data process for the part-time employees.


Employee Self Service >> Life Events/New Hires


Defect 1652488: A system error occurred after you entered a value in the Total Dependents field on the Other Withholding State(s) table of the State Withholding tab.


Labor >> Export Data to Deltek Time and Expense


Defect 1695422: When you selected Supervisor from Salary Setup as the Supervisor Source, the group description (field 5 in the group record) was incorrect.


Labor >> Export Project Manufacturing Data


Defect 1692951: When you exported a purchase order (PO) receipt for a serial tracked part, the process failed. You encountered an error with the following message: "Total number of serials must match received qty."


Labor >> Manage ADP 2.5 Mapping Values


Defect 1626081: You encountered an error when you queried a record with multiple detail lines.


Labor >> Manage Pay Type Restrictions


Defect 1697474: A system error displayed when you saved a new pay type restriction record. This occurred when the synthetic key value in the database (SEQ_GENERATOR.LAST_KEY) was more than four digits.


Labor >> Manage Timesheets


Defect 1691233: You were not able to recreate reversing timesheets after you deleted them.


Leave >> Manage Leave Types


Defect 1703702: The description of the Accrual Ceiling Method should not reference the Balance Year Ceiling Option, which only applies to balance celing.


Payroll >> Create Quarterly SUTA Tax File


Defect 1645895: The SUTA upload file contained the full middle name of the employee. The state format requires only the middle initial of the employee.


Planning


Administration >> Report Table Update Process


Defect 1694026: A linked view was created for the dropped table SRC00_BILL_INVC_HDR_HS.


Organization Budgeting >> Organization Budgets / Outlooks


Defect 1700649: When you opened either the Direct Utilization Split or Indirect Utilization Split subtask for a resource, the default account was automatically populated with any saved values in the split and caused the labor forecast to double.


Defect 1708629: The default account on the Direct Utilization Split and Indirect Utilization Split subtasks of a new budget outlook (BUD/OLK) was reset to zero in forecast periods.


Project Budgeting >> Hours Breakdown


Defect 1708604: Hours were duplicated when a vendor employee had records within the same fiscal year and period in two different companies.


Project Budgeting >> Project Budgets / EACs


Defect 1664128: When Hourly Rates to Use was set to Period Rates, the rates for salaried employees did not calculate correctly.


Defect 1690502: When a budget was not yet created for a project, transaction costs did not display in the Active Level reports.


Project Budgeting >> Time Collection Hours


Defect 1705141: Hours for an employee were tripled.


Resource Planning >> Budget by Resource


Defect 1696134: You encountered a critical error when selecting a resource in Budget Resource Planning.


Defect 1696137: The process to modify, commit, and save the budget was slow when you made changes in Budget Resource Planning.


Projects


Billing >> Calculate Standard Bills


Defect 1684340: If you selected Include Current Fiscal Year and entered an alphanumeric fiscal year in the Fiscal Year field, Costpoint displayed this error message when you calculated bills: "The following field does not contain a valid number: Current Fiscal Year." This occurred when Select Retroactive Bill Calculation Type was set to Indirect Costs.


Defect 1689606: The system did not create the Over Ceiling line even if the Create Zero Retainage and Over-Ceiling Rows check box was selected in Calculate Standard Bills.

As a workaround, you may set up retainage information on the Manage Project Billing Information screen with 0.00% in Percentage so that the system will not calculate any retainage. And then, recalculate the bill. The Over Ceiling rows should now display on the Manage Standard Bills screen. See sample setup below.

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Defect 1703439: The application incorrectly calculated multiplier overrides and account discounts when the Starting Account and Ending Account selected in Manage Multiplier Overrides were both top-level accounts.


Billing >> Print Billing Worksheet


Defect 1692987: When the full amount was on hold, no corresponding entry was created in the BILL_EDIT_DETL table. As a result, that amount did not display even in the hold section of the Billing Worksheet.

The application has been updated to add full hold amounts/hours from the OPEN_BILLING_DETL table to the Amounts on Hold and Hours on Hold lines in the Supporting Schedule Summary section of the Billing Worksheet, provided that there is an invoice for the selected project.


Inter-Company Work Orders >> Create IWO Allocations


Defect 1693864: On the Unbilled line of the sending company's IWO transaction (on the Allocation Detail subtask of Manage IWO Allocations), the Sending Amount and Transactional Receiving Amount values were interchanged. In addition, the Functional Receiving Amount was in the billing currency instead of the functional currency. These issues resulted in incorrect functional and transactional amounts when posted to the General Ledger.

This defect affects clients using MSS databases.


Project Inquiry and Reporting >> Update Project Status Report Tables


Defect 1690199: Costpoint created duplicate records in the PSR_HDR table when you ran this application for a fiscal year/period/subperiod combination.


Project Setup >> Manage Project User Flow


Defect 1689139: You were unable to change the owning organization via web services. When you tried to make the same change in Manage Project User Flow, Costpoint displayed the Org History subtask. This subtask was read-only unless you modify the Owning Org field on the Basic Info tab.

Part of the fix for this defect is enabling the New button on the Org History subtask. Note, however, that you still have to edit the Owning Org field on the Basic Info tab (which automatically updates the New Owning Organization field in Org History) if you want to modify the project's owning organization.

If you need to make an organization change in the Costpoint Web Interface Console (WIC), the system now requires a new <PJMBASIC_ORGHIST> so that the owning organization changes in <PJMBASIC_PROJ> will be allowed to proceed. Here is a sample WIC input:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>

<pjmbasic_end xmlns='http://www.deltek.com/enterprise/integration/pjmbasic_end' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'>

<PJMBASIC_PROJ tranType='UPDATE'>

                  <ORG_ID>1.2</ORG_ID>

                  <PROJ_ID>ED02</PROJ_ID>

                  <PJMBASIC_ORGHIST tranType='INSERT'>

                                <PD_NO>1</PD_NO>

                                <PJMBASIC_ORGHIST_FY_CD>2021</PJMBASIC_ORGHIST_FY_CD>

                                <RETRO_FL>Y</RETRO_FL>

                                <SUB_PD_NO>1</SUB_PD_NO>

                  </PJMBASIC_ORGHIST>

</PJMBASIC_PROJ>

</pjmbasic_end>


Subcontractor Management >> Manage Work Assignments


Defect 1695902: Performance tuning has been conducted to improve this application's processing time when loading work assignments.


Reports & Analytics


Business Intelligence >> Business Intelligence


Defect 1707712: You could not run the Effective User Rights report in Costpoint BI. As a workaround, use the Effective User Rights report available in Costpoint, located at Admin » Security » Security Reports/Inquiries » Print Effective User Rights Report.


Dashboards >> Home Dashboard


Defect 1649734: When you launched an Approve task from the Home Dashboard, Costpoint opened the Manage/Approve Timesheets screen showing records with Approved and Signed statuses, instead of loading approval tasks only. Manage/Approve Timesheets should have opened with Filter By set to Approval Tasks instead of Status.

As a workaround, use the MyDesktop screen.


Time & Expense


Configuration >> Resource Information


Defect 1687326: When you created a user in a stand-alone instance of Time & Expense, you received a message confirming the action was successful even though the user had not been created. This occurred only when the Admin schema came from a multi-company system, where several companies were defined, and when the person creating the user did not have access to the user account being created.


Expense >> Expense Authorization


Defect 1693600: When abbreviations were enabled, the ABBREV ID displayed instead of the UDT ID, which caused errors related to invalid links.


Defect 1703599: When you submitted an expense authorization, two emails were sent for approval instead of just one.


Expense >> Expense Report


Defect 1696833: When you saved an expense in Wizard mode, the Expense Type column did not display.


Defect 1703700: When you clicked View to open an attachment, Save and Save & Continue were enabled even though no modifications were made.


Defect 1708654: When you entered a revision explanation in Expense Report, the verbiage on the Revision Explanation dialog box referred to Expense Authorization.


Defect 1708658: You encountered an error when you modified the dates in Check-in Date and Check-out Date of an outstanding lodging expense.


Expense >> Export ERs / Advances


Defect 1693481: In a multi-company setup where two companies had the same name, the export did not include expense reports for one of them.


Defect 1696727: When you selected Include Expense Summary and then previewed the report, it included report details even though Include Expense Detail was not selected.


Expense >> Print Expense Report


Defect 1707789: When you printed an expense report sorted by Expense Report ID, it printed in descending order instead of ascending.


Time >> Timesheet


Defect 1694196: When Group Cache was enabled, the pay type in Charge Lookup was not restricted by timesheet class.


Defect 1696038: When you copied a timesheet line and then clicked the Project (UDT02) field in a different row, you received an error message.


Time >> Timesheet Classes


Defect 1696030: When you linked a non-overtime UDT10, Overtime Type was set to Level 1 and disabled.


Known Issues

Failed Execution of Scheduled Reports in Costpoint Business Intelligence

If you have a report that is scheduled to run frequently during the day, succeeding runs may stop unexpectedly. As a workaround, you can do a manual run of the report and then reschedule the next execution.

This issue has been reported to IBM and is actively working on it.

Unable to Set BI Reports as Homepage

You cannot set a Costpoint BI report as the homepage when its Interactivity Mode is set to Yes. As a workaround, turn off the Interactivity Mode.

This issue has been reported to IBM.


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