Deltek Costpoint 8.1.21 Release Notes (Build 8.1.21.5005)


Welcome to the Deltek Costpoint 8.1.21 Release Notes, which describe the new features, enhancements, and software corrections introduced in this release.


Important NotesRegulatory EnhancementsEnhancementsSoftware Issues ResolvedSecurity Enhancements


Important Notes


These release notes address all of the modules associated with Deltek Costpoint 8.1.21, 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.

 

Costpoint Business Intelligence 8.1.18+ and Cognos Analytics with Watson

Costpoint BI 8.1.18+ is only compatible with Cognos Analytics with Watson 11.2.4. If you are leveraging Cognos Analytics 11.1.7, the highest version of Costpoint BI MR that you can apply is Costpoint BI 8.1.17. Note that you can continue to apply the Costpoint MRs beyond 8.1.17 regardless of which Cognos version you are deploying. Costpoint and Costpoint BI MRs are independent of each other.


Regulatory Enhancements


State


Idaho 2023 Tax Table Updates

Idaho’s 2023 table for percentage computation method of withholding provides the following updates:

To support the state’s requirements, this Costpoint release adds/updates records on the following screens:

Attention: For more information, refer to:

Note: This update requires patch dbc_810_11147.


Washington State WACARES Deduction Type

Costpoint adds a new WACARE (Washington Cares Fund) deduction type on the Manage Deductions screen. This will allow you to indicate which deduction codes will be used to track employee contributions to the Washington Cares Fund.

Note: This update requires patch dbc_810_11148.


Enhancements


People

Export LINK27 - Project/PLC Deletion Records to Deltek Time and Expense

When you delete Project/PLC combinations in Costpoint, those deletion records can now be exported to Deltek Time and Expense through the Export Data to Deltek Time and Expense (LDPDTC) screen.

 

Link Project Labor Categories to Projects (PJMPLCPJ)

Costpoint adds a new database table (DEL_PROJ_LAB_CAT) to store deleted Project/PLC links.

 

Export Data to Deltek Time and Expense (LDPDTC)

The application now includes Project/PLC deletion records in the export file to Deltek Time and Expense if you select the Project/PLC (LINK27) checkbox.


Software Issues Resolved


Accounting


Accounts Payable >> Approve Checks


Defect 1929335: The Approve Checks application required performance improvements to prevent timeouts during processing.


Accounts Payable >> Create PO Vouchers from POs/Receipts


Defect 1936868: When you ran the Create PO Vouchers from POs/Receipts function, Costpoint did not generate the Voucher Edit Report details for vouchers with active and inactive projects.


Accounts Payable >> Manage Purchase Order Vouchers


Defect 1937026: The application allowed you to create a voucher against a Subcontractor Agreement Blanket. It should allow a voucher against a Release only. This affects you if you use the WIC client for integration.


Defect 1948026: The application did not delete the zero-dollar invoice lines of Subcontractor Agreement PO vouchers.


Accounts Payable >> Print Cash Requirements Report


Defect 1866463: When you set up partial payments (Accounts Payable - EFT payment type), the corresponding entry on the Cash Requirements Report displayed the full remaining amount and not the partial payment entered on the Edit Voucher Payment Status screen.


General Ledger >> Create Revaluation Entry


Defect 1936043: The Balance Sheet Revaluation Journal did not create reversal for fiscal year 2023, period 1 when processing the current expenses.


Framework


Framework


Defect 1870373: When the Home Dashboard desktop app was set for a user's access in a Costpoint user or UI profile, and the user had only the Timesheet application license, Costpoint did not take the user to the Timesheet application when the user logged in.


Defect 1906937: When the Execute Top Query on Startup checkbox was selected in the Application Layout for a UI profile, it was automatically selected in your user profile. You could clear the Execute Top Query on Startup checkbox, but when you saved your own application layout with the checkbox cleared, the user profile became the priority instead of the UI profile, causing the UI Profile’s saved query to not execute.


Defect 1916223: In Manage Purchase Requisitions, when you copied data from Excel into the Requisition Line data form and copied whole lines or more of data, the form did not paste the data with more than 60 characters well. It did not truncate the data back to 60 characters. If you copied and pasted to each cell, it worked fine.


Defect 1925510: Costpoint needed to provide the ability to delete "Failed on Hold" scheduled jobs in the Manage Job Queues application.


Defect 1938607: Costpoint did not correctly handle backslashes in the Document Location field on the Notes/Doc Loc tab in the Manage Accounts Payable Vouchers (APMVCHR) application. 


Materials


Engineering Change Notices >> Manage Engineering Change Notices


Defect 1932581: When you entered an engineering change notice (ECN) and you entered a part for revision, the make/buy part of the new part was set to the make/buy part of the previous one. When you changed the part number, the make/buy part did not change to the new part when it was different from the original entry.


Inventory >> Enter Inventory Transfers


Defect 1936781: When you enabled organization security and created an inventory transfer, Costpoint saved the organization ID as Null in the INVT_TRN table.


Inventory >> Manage Actual Counts


Defect 1934350: When you tried to add the same part/rev/serial number on a single count, you encountered an error stating that the serial number was assigned to another row.


Inventory >> Reconcile Inventory Balances


Defect 1928638: When you ran inventory reconciliation with Reconcile Serial/Lot Qty selected, Costpoint calculated the incoming inspection location as a negative (-) quantity.


Master Production Scheduling >> Update Master Production Schedules


Defect 1939966: Costpoint generated a planned order even though there was enough available quantity for the substitute part.


Material Requirements Planning >> Manage Detailed Part Schedule


Defect 1908267: The detailed part schedule (DPS) did not add in the supply for the transfers, which caused the DPS to show an incorrect balance and allowed Costpoint to plan with negative inventory.


Defect 1928685: When you deleted or updated a record, you encountered a critical system error and were then logged out of Costpoint.


Defect 1940974: When you selected Project Planning Group as the Option and also selected the Include Common Inventory checkbox, the transfer reservation supply added the Projected Available quantity even though it was already added in the On Hand Qty field on the header.


Material Requirements Planning >> Update Material Requirements Plan


Defect 1930486: When you ran MRP, the MRP substitutes did not use up the quantities of the substitute parts according to the planning order.


Defect 1939335: When you ran MRP, Costpoint generated a planned order even though there was enough available quantity for the substitute part. This happened for both Extendable and Non-extendable shelf-life types.


Procurement Planning >> Manage Purchase Requisitions


Defect 1937990: Costpoint did not truncate the RQ_LN_DESC field to 60 characters when you pasted from Excel and there was a template assigned. In this case, the ITEM_ID template was assigned.


Production Control >> Enter Manufacturing Order Issues


Defect 1928643: When you reversed parts in two locations where the parts were from, the manufacturing order allowed two reversals of the serial number in both locations.


Defect 1930493: When you applied a negative issue of a component already issued to a closed or completed manufacturing order (MO), Costpoint regenerated the reservation, which resulted to an orphaned reservation.


Production Control >> Manage Manufacturing Orders


Defect 1932204: When you closed a manufacturing order (MO), the completion percentage on the routing steps changed to 100%. When you moved the MO back to In-shop, the completion percentage remained at 100%.


Production Control >> Manage MO Operation Completions


Defect 1945171: When a user entered an employee ID that was not associated with the user, clicked Save, and then went to Employee Self Service » Payroll and Benefits, the screen displayed the information for the employee ID instead of the user.


Purchasing >> Manage Purchase Orders


Defect 1932596: The application has been changed to improve performance related to purchase order (PO) line text.


Defect 1936095: When a purchase order (PO) and a sales order (SO) had the same ID and line and you closed a PO line, the SO reservation deleted both in the same company as well as in separate companies.


Sales Order Entry >> Manage Invoices


Defect 1923698: When you tried to review the updates you made in offline mode, you encountered a system error.


People


Benefits >> Print 1095-Cs


Defect 1918216: The application generated Page 2 of the 1095-C even if the employee had less than six dependents.


Employee >> Import Employee Data


Defect 1929761: The application did not display an error when you imported active employees that exceeded the maximum allowed licensed employees.


Employee Self Service >> Benefits Enrollment


Defect 1580249: Display issues occurred on the HSA tab of the Benefits Enrollment screen. If you resized the screen to a smaller screen, text and fields disappeared. This occurred only on the HSA tab.


Labor >> Apply Timesheet Adjustments in Batch Mode


Defect 1932060: The performance of the Generate Salary Caps timesheets process should be improved. The process took several hours to complete.


Labor >> Configure Labor Settings


Defect 1933235: The Deltek Time and Expense Settings group box fields on the Corporate Labor Settings subtask were disabled if you have no ET (Electronic Timesheet) license. The access to the settings should also be based on the EE (Employee Expense Interface) license.


Labor >> Create Employee Allowance Timesheet Lines


Defect 1931802: The screen displayed the following error for employees with a 12-character Employee ID: "The following field does not allow more than 11 characters: Starting Employee." The screen should accept an ID with a length that is less than or equal to the Employee ID Length specified on the Corporate Labor Settings subtask of the Configure Labor Settings screen.


Labor >> Import Timesheets from Deltek Time and Expense


Defect 1943937: Incorrect fringe reference keys were assigned when rolling up timesheet lines. This resulted in incorrect rates used on retroactive timesheets fringe lines.


Payroll >> Compute Payroll


Defect 1932932: The taxable amount for Employer Medicare was incorrect when the amount should be negative.


Payroll >> Print W-2s


Defect 1900353: The application stopped responding when you attempted to print large data using Blank Stock/Plain Paper W-2.


Defect 1943583: When you modified an existing parameter and then ran the process without saving the parameter, the process completed but the screen stopped responding.


Planning


Administration >> Manage Project Manager Matrix Rights


Defect 1937872: Security changes did not take effect after you saved them.


Project Budgeting >> Project Budgets / EACs


Defect 1939835: The application has been revised so that a non-owner may be able to complete and approve the budget and also select the Complete checkbox.


Defect 1939996: When an account is tagged Inactive or is not included in the Project Account Group (PAG) but listed in MAP4 (Override Project Budget Sheet Account IDs), the account will still display in the Acct ID lookup of the project budget in BGMBP.


Project Budgeting >> Project Cost Categories


Defect 1934580: You encountered errors when you generated various labor reports with the Include Inactive Resources flag not selected.


Projects


Cost and Revenue Processing >> Post Revenue


Defect 1944650: Performance tuning has been conducted for this application to improve runtime.


Inter-Company Work Orders >> Create IWO Allocations


Defect 1937361: Performance tuning has been conducted for this application to prevent it from hanging.


Project Inquiry and Reporting >> Print Project Status Report


Defect 1899432: The application took longer than expected to print the Project Status Report.

As a workaround, clear the Suppress If No Year-To-Date Activity checkbox before running the screen.


Project Setup >> Manage Project User Flow


Defect 1914658: If you have a top-level project with the Cobra Project checkbox selected and you cloned/copied it to a lower-level project, Costpoint did not clear that checkbox for the lower-level project when you saved the record.


Reports & Analytics


Business Intelligence >> Business Intelligence


Defect 1839024: An error occurred in the Resource Management data and Purchase Order data when you ran the following:

This defect affects Costpoint BI Oracle database users.


Defect 1879569: A Query Service internal error occurred when you opened the following tabs in their corresponding dashboards:


Defect 1908147: The Expense Charge Activity Report in Team Content » Expense displayed data that were beyond your assigned project role.


Defect 1908212: The Indented Bill of Material report found in Team Content » Manufacturing in Costpoint Business Intelligence displayed inaccurate data for subassemblies, even if the Multiply Out Subassembly Quantities option was selected. As a workaround, use Print Indented Bills of Material Report in Materials » Bills of Material » Bills of Material Reports/Inquiries in Costpoint.


Defect 1919686: The Total Amount value in the purchase order (PO) was overstated on the PO Payment & Remaining Balance Report when there were different projects on separate line items.


Defect 1928547: The Charge Activity Report in Team Content » Time » Reports displayed data that were beyond your assigned project role.


Defect 1931498: When the Labor History data module in Smart AI was used, it displayed data for employees who were outside your organization. This defect occurred because the associated Employee data module was not updated with records from the Employee data set. To refresh the data set, click Company Content » Smart AI » *Data Sets* » Dimensions, right-click Employees, and select Edit data set. In edit mode, select Save and load data under the Save icon instead of Save As….


Defect 1956279: The following error message displayed when you generated the Project Status Report found in Team content » Projects » Reports and used large data in an Oracle database: "Found an internal error java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException." This error occurred regardless of the entries made in the prompts.


Time & Expense


Configuration >> UDT02


Defect 1947449: When you tried to add a new link 27 record in a stand-alone system, you received a system exception error.


Expense >> Expense Authorization


Defect 1921906: The charge type that was configured for a project did not display in Expense Authorization, but it did display when used on an expense report in Expense Wizard.


Defect 1926111: A newly created expense type functioned for a new expense authorization but not for an old one. The old expense authorization Project and Org fields were left blank.


Expense >> Expense Report


Defect 1913528: When you saved a work assignment as a Favorite from the timesheet, that same charge displayed under Charge Favorites in the Expense Report, even though it was designated as a labor charge.


Defect 1927698: When you submitted an expense report with a future date that was later than the one configured for the expense type, the error message was given only after the expense authorization was applied.


Expense >> Manage/Approve Expense Reports


Defect 1946516: When a supervisor removed an attachment from an expense report, an error occurred, stating that the record could not be deleted because dependent data existed.


Time >> Manage/Approve Timesheets


Defect 1926112: A supervisor was able to view restricted charges from other users.


Time >> Timesheet


Defect 1646647: Vendor employees received an error stating that they were not in the work force for the charge level of a project.


Defect 1929881: When employees were linked to a project and PLC in Manage Employee Work Force, PLCs not associated with the resource displayed in the PLC Lookup of the timesheet when a previous search value was in the field.


Defect 1932874: When UDT02 was linked with UDT07 (link 27) and the PLC (UDT07) description was modified, the Lookup still displayed the older description.


Defect 1933329: When the timesheet period was semi-monthly and was also configured to calculate overtime automatically, the report displayed an incorrect value for total regular hours on the seventh day of the month. This occurred when the current period started on the first day of the months of April, July, or October.


Defect 1947418: You were unable to save PLC changes on the line to your Favorites.


Security Enhancements

There are no security enhancements or security issues addressed in this release.


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