Deltek Costpoint 8.1.35 Release Notes (DRAFT)

Welcome to the Deltek Costpoint 8.1.35 Release Notes, which describe the new features, enhancements, and software corrections introduced in this release.

Note: These Release Notes are in draft form and will be updated continuously until the release date in February 2025. To ensure that you have the most current version, please refresh this page in your browser

These release notes address all of the modules associated with Deltek Costpoint 8.1.35, some of which your firm may not use. Skip the sections that do not apply to your implementation of Deltek Costpoint.

The Build Deployed In and Dependent Files lines for defects and the list of required files included in enhancement descriptions are meant to support the Pick and Choose deployment model. If your company or system supports Pick and Choose, refer to the Downloading and Deploying Pick and Choose Hot Fixes section of these release notes for more information.

If you do not support Pick and Choose, you may ignore the deployed and dependent files listed in this document. Updates are still packaged as cumulative releases for MRs.

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 send an email to DeltekDocumentationFeedback@deltek.com.

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Costpoint Business Intelligence 8.1.18+ and Cognos Analytics with Watson

Costpoint BI 8.1.18+ is compatible with Cognos Analytics with Watson 11.2.4 only. 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.

Update W-4 Information of Iowa Employees for 2024 Filing

Important: This action is required if you have Iowa Employees. 

Iowa revised the IA W-4 (Employee Withholding Allowance Certificate), resulting in a change to the way an employee’s Iowa withholding credit information is determined. Rather than requesting the number of allowances an employee would like to claim, the IA W-4 now requests a dollar amount.

To accommodate the employee setup, updates made in Costpoint MR 8.1.28 included the following:

• A new Credit Amount field was added to the Manage Employee Taxes screen and the Taxes subtask on the Manage Employee Information screen, allowing payroll administrators to enter the Total Allowance amount from Line 6 of the IA W-4.

• A new Credit Amount field was added to the Costpoint Employee Self Service (ESS) State Withholding screen, allowing employees to enter the total allowance amount they would like to claim.

In Costpoint MR 8.1.29, the Iowa state withholding computation was updated so that an employee’s credit amount will be based on the Credit Amount field on the Manage Employee Taxes screen, rather than the Number of Credits field. If your Iowa employees have not already reviewed their Iowa W-4 information you should instruct them to do so before computing payroll. Costpoint Payroll customers with Iowa employees should do the following:

• Costpoint Employee Self Service (ESS) customers:

• Update the Web Address or Notes field on the Configure State Tax Settings screen with a link to the latest IA W-4.

• Instruct your Iowa employees to review their Iowa W-4 Credit Amount on the ESS State Withholding screen and update as needed using the following steps:

1. Go to People » Employee Self Service » Payroll and Benefits » State Withholding.

2. Populate the Credit Amount with the total allowance amount from line 6 of your 2024 IA W-4.

3. Click Save.

• Costpoint customers not using Costpoint ESS:

• Instruct your Iowa employees to file an updated W-4 using the 2024 IA W-4 form.

• Use the completed IA W-4 form to update the employee’s tax setup on the Costpoint Manage Employee Taxes screen or the Taxes subtask on the Manage Employee Information screen.

It is important for Iowa employees to update their IA W-4 information before payroll is computed in Costpoint MR 8.1.29 or a higher version since the Iowa tax withholding computation will be updated in those versions. If you upgrade to one of those versions and an Iowa employee has not yet updated their Iowa W-4 information, their credit amount will be 0.00 and may result in a higher withholding amount than expected.

Update Iowa Setup in ESS Configure State Tax Settings

Iowa updated their marital status options with the release of their 2024 IA W-4 employee withholding allowance certificate. To accommodate the new statuses, Costpoint MR 8.1.29 applied the following:

• Added new HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD filing status

• Changed the description for the SINGLE filing status from "Single" to "Other"

• Changed the description for the MARRIED filing status from "Married" to "Married Filing Jointly"

If your employees use Costpoint Employee Self Service (ESS) to update their state tax information, Deltek recommends you assign the new HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD status to Iowa on the Configure State Tax Settings screen and update the filing status descriptions for the MARRIED (Married Filing Jointly) and SINGLE (Other) filing statuses to be consistent with the 2024 IA W-4.

Downloading and Deploying Pick and Choose Hot Fixes

If your company or system supports the Pick and Choose deployment model, see the following document for instructions on downloading and deploying the Deltek Costpoint 8.1 individual Pick and Choose hot fixes: Deltek Costpoint 8.1 Deploying Pick and Choose Hot Fixes

Note: The Build Deployed In and Dependent Files lines are included in every defect description under the Software Issues Resolved section. These indicate the files that you need to install to apply the fix for the defect. For Regulatory Enhancements and Enhancements, required files are listed towards the end of the feature description. 

Checking if the Hot Fix is Installed

Follow this procedure to see if the hot fix is correctly installed:

1. Open the application that was updated.

2. Click Help » About from the Costpoint global menu. This will display a screen that shows you the latest hot fix files applied to the application that is open.

Checking if the Feature is Installed

Follow this procedure to see if the feature is correctly installed:

1. Click Help » About from the Costpoint global menu.

2. Open the Features subtask and click the feature that was just installed.

3. Open the Libraries subtask. Check the list of libraries and see if they are correct and have been successfully deployed.

4. Open the Patches subtask. Check the list of patches and see if they are correct and have been successfully deployed.

Custom Programs Affected

Sometimes, an update can cause custom programs and reports to stop working as expected. Before applying an update, consider whether you have any custom programs or reports in the application area affected by the update. If so, contact Deltek Support Center at https://deltek.custhelp.com before you install the update.

Accessing Deltek Support Center

If you need assistance installing, implementing, or using Deltek Costpoint, you can access Deltek Support Center through the following:

1. Go to https://deltek.custhelp.com.

2. Enter your Deltek Support Center Username and Password.

3. Click Login.

Note: If you forget your username or password, you can click the Login Help? button on the login screen for help.

Defect 2256030: When you attempted to save a purchase requisition with more than 1500-line items, the process took more than 30 minutes.

Defect 2252449: When you changed the inventory abbreviation on the requirement line after autoloading the requirements, an error message displayed, even if the new inventory abbreviation belonged to the same Inventory project. This prevented you from changing the requirement line inventory abbreviation to another abbreviation belonging to the same inventory project after autoloading the requirements.

Defect 2239245: When you generated requirements on a Manufacturing Order (MO) with effectivity later than the effective end date on the Bill of Materials (BOM), items on the operational routing that had effective end dates on the BOM still generated requirements; This resulted in incorrect requirements for users.

Defect 2267041: When you tried to use the Web Integration Console (WIC) to update the SEQ_NO in PO HDR STD TEXT with an inactive project, an error occurred. This issue affected both UI and WIC. 

For Pick and Choose deployment: If you choose not to apply this hotfix, as a workaround, delete the project/acct/org from the PO header. 

Defect 2244007: When you created a purchase order with more than 100 rows, items in the receipt lines displayed as blank.

Defect 2254483: When you imported a Sales Order (AOPSOPP) with a Service type line item, the Make/Buy field was set to null/blank instead of defaulting to 'Buy' as in the User Interface. This caused the Create Purchase Requisitions from Sales Orders (OEPGRQ) to fail, triggering a ServerAPI under certain conditions and resulting in an incomplete requisition.

Defect 2085008: The checkbox for If Employer provided self-insured coverage, check the box and enter the information for each individual enrolled in coverage, including the employee on the 1095-C was selected even if the employee and dependents benefit plan was not self-insured.

Defect 2257155: When you processed a large amount of data (for example, 3,000 employees), the application did not respond for several hours and created multiple timesheets for each individual.

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

Database Change documents detail data dictionary changes from one release to the next. To see the Database Change document for this MR, refer to 8.1.x Data Dictionary Updates.

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