Arkansas 2020 Tax Update

These are the changes for Arkansas effective March 1, 2020:

• The threshold for adjusting the net taxable income at the $50 range (midrange of $100) increases from $50,000 to $87,001.

• The tax rates used in the formula decrease; the range is now 0 to 6.6%, down from 0.9% to 6.9%.

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

Maryland 2020 Tax Update

The minimum standard deduction value used in the percentage method increases from $1,500 to $1,550, while the maximum standard deduction value increases from $2,250 to $2,300.

For more information, see the Employer Withholding Guide: https://www.marylandtaxes.gov/forms/current_forms/Withholding_Guide.pdf.

Mississippi 2020 Tax Update

The annual withholding table has been updated.  For more information, see: https://www.dor.ms.gov/Documents/Computer%20Payroll%20Flowchart.pdf.

Rhode Island 2020 Tax Update

Updates for Rhode Island include the following:

• The annual withholding table has been updated.

• The threshold for the 0.00 allowance amount increases from $227,050 to $231,500.

For more information, see: http://www.tax.ri.gov/forms/2020/Withholding/2020%20Withhholding%20Tax%20Booklet.pdf.

The Exports utility (Utilities » Imports & Exports » Exports) has the following new data pack and data export definition, specifically designed for integrating Vantagepoint with MYOB accounting software:

• The new MYOBSales data pack displays in the Data Pack field when you select MYOB in the Data Pack Category field on the Select Columns dialog box.

• The new Professional Sales data export definition displays in the grid on the Definitions tab of the Data Export Definitions form. Its Category field displays MYOB.

This is a Deltek-provided data export definition that you can use to export Vantagepoint data to a file, but you cannot edit the settings for the definition. An asterisk (*) displays beside the definition name to indicate that you cannot edit the definition. You can, however, copy the data export definition to create a new definition and modify the new definition as needed. To copy a definition to create a new one, hover over the definition on the Definitions tab of the Data Exports Definition form, click the options icon at the end of the row, and select Copy. Assign a new name to the new definition and save it.

It is also recommended that you work with Deltek Consulting or a Deltek Partner to get the most out of this integration.

Updated PHP Version

The Touch Server for this version of the Deltek Vantagepoint mobile application has been upgraded to support PHP 7.3.14.

Defect 1201389: When you ran Revenue Generation for active projects and phases, it incorrectly included projects and phases with an inactive status.

Defect 1229598: When you ran Revenue Generation, the adjustment for a project was incorrect. This occurred when you entered the following for a project on the Accounting tab of the Projects form (in Hubs » Projects » Project):

• In the Revenue section at the lowest WBS level for a project, you entered a user-defined revenue method in the Revenue Method field.

• In the Revenue section and Overall Revenue section at the project (WBS1) level:

• You have a user-defined method in the Revenue Method field that is different from the one that you entered for the lowest WBS level.

• You selected the Enable Overall Revenue Limit check box.

• In the Basis field, you selected Revenue Method and a lowest-level WBS element for the adjustment.

Defect 1231745: In Billing » Interactive Billing or in Hubs » Projects » Billing Terms, when you tried to update fee information on the Fees tab, you received several error messages: "You do not have rights to update this record," "Field Key does not exist," and "Error occurred saving the project." This occurred if your security role had Read Only record access for projects and Add/Modify record access for Billing Terms.

Defect 1229124: In Billing » Interactive Billing, when you selected the Transferred from Phase and Transferred from Task columns on the Select Columns dialog, they were not added to the grids on the Expense and Unit tabs.

Defect 1242040: This issue applies if you use approvals for billing invoices and you set a project's billing terms to include outstanding Account Receivables on invoices. The AR section on an invoice incorrectly showed an invoice that was paid as outstanding in the following scenario:

1. In Interactive Billing, you submitted an invoice for approval.

2. You entered a cash receipt for an outstanding invoice that was included in the AR section of the submitted invoice.

3. You approved and accepted the submitted invoice.

Defect 1242522: In Interactive Billing, you were unable to select an existing invoice file on the Invoice File Selection dialog box if Enable Transaction Center Approvals was set to Yes in Settings » Accounting » Transactions.

Defect 1244829: This issue occurred in Interactive Billing when you clicked Other Actions » Assign Invoice Number on the Interactive Billing form, and you selected to assign a specific invoice number. On the Assign Invoice Number dialog box, you were allowed to enter as many characters as you wanted for the invoice number. It should have allowed you to enter only the number of characters that you defined in Utilities » Key Formats » Reference Numbers.

Defect 1247912: This issue occurred when you transferred multiple labor transactions at a time for the same employee on the Labor tab in Interactive Billing. The comments that you entered for the first transferred labor transaction were not saved and not visible in Interactive Billing for the projects to which the labor was transferred. The comments also did not appear on the Project Labor Detail report.

Defect 1238389: On the Payments tab, when you tried to export payment data to the Excel file format several times, each exported file provided different information.

Defect 1234651: When you clicked the Print option on the Electronic Files page of the Employee Payments form, you received an access error.

Defect 1247380: When you manually linked a billed and paid-in-full billing invoice to a PWP (pay when paid) AP voucher in Hubs » Firms » Voucher Review, the AP voucher was not automatically included in an automatic Vendor Payment run in Cash Management » Vendor Payments.

Defect 1225495: One or both of the following issues occurred:

• In My Stuff » Reporting, when you tried to select a dormant account on a General Ledger report, you received the following error message: Account xxx is dormant and may not be selected

• On the Search dialog box in the General Ledger application, if you tried to filter by Account Number, only active records were returned; you could not select any dormant records.

Defect 1214268: An error occurred when you selected a hub record if the User/Role access rights were based on a value that was entered for a user-defined or custom field.

Defect 1230961: In List View, if you copied and pasted multiple rows in quick succession, and then worked in a different application, when you returned to List View, some of the fields had reverted to their previous values.

Defect 1237838: When using the List View for the Contacts hub, the Owner column displayed the employee number instead of the employee name.

Defect 1242004: When the Employee to Firm/Contact Relationship Settings option was set to SysOwner in Settings » Labels and Lists » Lists, the Relationship options in the grids on the Firms & Contacts tab in the Employees hub displayed Text Not Translated for all non en-US language databases. 

Defect 1246126: When the Payroll Interface option was set to Paychex on the Labor Options form in Settings » Accounting, the Paychex Employee Number and Client Number fields did not display on the Accounting tab in the Employees hub. 

Defect 1252994: When you tried to save a new marketing campaign, you received the following error: "The value of the next auto-number is greater than the maximum allowable auto-number field length."

Defect 1237849: When the Client ID field was hidden from your security role, you received a "You do not have access" error message if you opened Billing Terms from the Projects hub, and received a "Cannot insert duplicate key row in object" error if you tried to make changes on the Fees tab in Billing Terms.

Defect 1229104: When you exported data from the Contract Management grid on the Contract tab in Hubs » Projects » Contract Management, the Excel file included HTML code in the Totals row. 

Defect 1237806: If, on the Contract Management settings form,  Project Entering Method is set to At All Levels of the Work Breakdown Structure and Synchronize Contract Values to Project Compensation is set to Yes, you should be able to enter contract amounts at any level of the work breakdown structure (WBS), and amounts entered at lower WBS levels should not have to sum up correctly to amounts entered at higher levels. Instead, Vantagepoint incorrectly displayed an error message in this situation that indicated you had to enter contract amounts at the lowest levels of the WBS.

Defect 1246341: In some cases, when you changed a percent complete value for a draft invoice on the Fees tab of the Draft Invoice Approvals form in the Projects hub, the updated percent complete was saved successfully, but when you then tried to log out or navigate elsewhere in Vantagepoint, you incorrectly received a "You do not have access" error.

Defect 1241404: In Settings » General » Modules, when you enabled the Resource Planning module but did not enable the CRM module, the Estimates form in the Projects hub became unavailable.

Defect 1236272: Users whose roles did not have full access to applications could not preview PDF, RTF, DOC, or XLSX invoices in Hubs » Projects » Invoices. 

Defect 1202129: If you created a project workflow in Settings » Workflow » User-Initiated Workflows and selected Create Promotional Project from Regular Project as the method on the Function Configuration dialog box, you received an error when you tried to use this workflow to create a project.

Defect 1227369: This issue applies if you set Enable Revenue Categories to Yes in Settings » Accounting » Revenue. In the Projects hub, when you created a project by copying from another project and you also selected to copy the billing terms, the billing categories were not copied as they should have been. This occurred if the billing terms for the project that you copied had the Allocate Billed Revenue on Fee Invoices Based on Category check box selected on the Fees tab in Billing Terms.

Defect 1231964: When you modified the Primary Client field for a phase record on the Overview tab, you received an error message.

Defect 1231991: When you upgraded to Vantagepoint, some converted projects that were synchronized with Ajera did not show a value for the Sync to Ajera field and the Stage field in the Summary pane of the Projects form.

Defect 1232965: When you created and saved a new project, you received a "GATEWAY_TIMEOUT" error.

Defect 1238319: When you updated the Primary Client Address on the Overview tab in the Projects hub, the Project Location field updated automatically.

Defect 1239991: The Project List View became unresponsive when you selected a cell in the Location column.

Defect 1241397: If a user who did not have access rights to the Charge Type field on the Accounting tab of the Projects hub made a change to the project, the project's Revenue Method on the Accounting tab was changed to N - No Revenue Recognition.

Defect 1243714: Drop-down options for the Stage field on the Stage dialog box were not translated when Vantagepoint was configured for a language other than English. This occurred with project records that were migrated from opportunity records. (The Stage dialog box is displayed when you click the Edit button for the Stage field in the summary pane of the Projects form.)

Defect 1243719: When you selected Other Actions » Project Settings on the Projects form and enabled Project Number as the sort order on the Project/Phase/Task Lookup dialog box, the projects did not sort by number and were instead sorted by name.

Defect 1251110: When you copied a phase that had associated transactions to create a new phase, some database fields for the new phase were set to incorrect values, and that in turn caused billing extensions to not be calculated.

Defect 1241388: When you tried to view all absence requests records, you were only able to view your own record assignments. You could not view other records.

Defect 1230933: A performance issue was experienced while using Vantagepoint. This occurred due to an increase in CPU utilization that was triggered by underlying SQL statements from the project base dashpart.

Defect 1239549: When you edited a dashpart to include a project search that filtered at a lower WBS2 or WBS3 level, the search was not honored after it was saved and the dashpart was reopened.

Defect 1212245: When you selected any one of the Billing Status options on the Options tab of the Project Detail report, report records were not filtered based on the Billing Status option that you specified.

Defect 1227139: For some projects, the ETC Planned and EAC Planned amounts were correct in the summary pane in the Projects hub, but when you generated the Office Earnings report with the Budget Source option set to Project Planning Budget, ETC hours and amounts did not display. In addition, ETC was not included in the calculation of EAC hours and amounts for the report, so those EAC values were incorrect.

Defect 1233007: Sometimes, if you clicked a drill-down value on the Project Summary report, Vantagepoint returned a system processing error when one or both of the following were present:

• The project long name had been added as a group

• The project long name contained an ampersand (&)

Defect 1239952: If, on the Overview tab in Settings » Security » Roles, your security role had no access to Liability Code on the Utilities » Key Conversions list in the Navigation menu tree, you were unable to filter on the Liability Code on the Vouchers By Project report.

Defect 1242080: When you used a CRM-only database to run a Project Forecast report on awarded projects, there was no information in the generated report.

Defect 1242523: When you searched by employee office in the Resource Utilization by Company report, you received an error. This error did not occur when you searched by other fields.

Defect 1244255: When you changed the period selection to a previous period and then selected Other Actions » Schedule for a report with the Always Run in the Current Period check box not enabled, the report incorrectly ran in the current period rather than the period you were in at the time that you scheduled the report.

Defect 1246117: When you included the JTD Effective Multiplier column in the Project Earnings report, the value in the generated report did not include overhead in its calculation and was incorrect.

Defect 1248690: Vantagepoint displayed the added amounts of the lower WBS levels (such as tasks) and the higher WBS levels (such as phase) in the Total fields in the Project Earnings report. This error occurred even if you configured Vantagepoint to automatically calculate amounts for higher WBS levels by selecting the At Lowest Level Only option in Contract Management settings.

Defect 1215424:  In Settings » Time » Time Periods, if you set the timesheet period status to Administrator or System Administrators, you were not able to add a new timesheet in the Timesheet application for an employee with the timesheet administrative level.

Defect 1231189: Even when you clicked the Submit button, timesheets were not submitted and remained with a status of In Progress.

Defect 1232013: The status for timesheets that you submitted changed from Submitted back to In Progress without displaying an error message.

Defect 1235383: When you checked the employee's timesheet, absence requests that were dated and approved in the previous year were displayed in the current year.

Defect 1236913: When you set the UDF column as Active and Required in Settings »Time » Options, the UDF column was not displayed in the Selected Columns pane.

Defect 1237824: When an employee's role had the Record Level View option set to Employees - Employee is Me, and the role did not have access to a particular project on the Team tab in the Projects hub, the employee could still access the project record using the Project lookup.

Defect 1237866: When a timesheet did not have a value entered in the Hours field, an error occurred and the approval process could not be completed.

Defect 1240732: When you selected Other Actions » Floor Check and then changed the active company in the Company drop-down list on the Floor Check dialog box, the Hours Entered value for the new company was incorrect.

Defect 1241694: You were able to post timesheets before timesheet lines were approved.

Defect 1242034: When you were using the Microsoft Edge web browser, if you opened the drop-down for a timesheet hours value and corrected a spelling error indicated by red underlined text in the Comment field, your corrections were not saved.

Defect 1242533: When you clicked Print in the Receipts grid of the Receiving form (in the desktop application), you received an error.

Defect 1244803: When you attempted to reassign a portion of the hours from one resource to another resource at the same work breakdown structure (WBS) level, the hours were not transferred correctly. In some cases, not all of the hours selected were reassigned. In other cases, the period selection was not retained when the reassignment was completed and the hours were spread along the entire project plan.

Defect 1237280: When you performed an advanced search in a project report, you could not select an inactive or terminated project manager to filter and run reports.

Defect 1243058: You could not map a Liability type account on the Labor Accounts grid in Settings » Accounting » Labor Posting. 

Defect 1236293: When the Units option was not selected in the Debit and Credit Distribution by Organization grid in Settings » Accounting » Posting Accounts, and a credit project that did not include a WBS 3 was entered for the unit, the record did not save correctly and there was an unbalanced posting for that unit.

Defect 1224197: If you changed the status of an account to Dormant on the Accounts settings form when that account was only used in the History Loading utility, you received an error message indicating that the account was already in use.

Defect 1240026: If your security role granted you access to only the Chart of Accounts item on the Navigation pane (specified on the Overview tab in Settings » Security » Roles), when you tried to select the Chart of Accounts (in Settings » General Ledger » Chart of Accounts), you received the following error message: You do not have access.

Defect 1240736: On the States settings dialog box, when you added a state abbreviation code that was already assigned to a country, you received a "Unique codes must be entered" error message.

Defect 1246941: This issue applies for users with a security role that has a record level view filter set up for Billing Rate Tables in the Application Record Access grid on the Record Access tab in Settings » Security » Roles. These users received the following error when they searched for rate tables in Settings » Rate Tables: "The multi-part identifier "RateTable.TableName" could not be bound."

Defect 1247421: When you added a new employee to a Rate table, the Employee Lookup dialog box displayed employee names multiple times.

Defect 1237795: When you selected Settings » Rate Tables » Billing Labor Categories and entered a value greater than 32767 in the Rate field in the Categories grid, you received an error message.

Defect 1237790: When you set up record access for a role and used the Record Level View lookup to select Org Is Mine, Vantagepoint incorrectly displayed an organization in the Value field instead of displaying no values.

Defect 1241069: The mobile application encountered performance issues when retrieving project data for a large structure that included many projects, phases, and tasks.

Defect 1238974: A timesheet approver with no access to a certain company, but to which he was assigned as an approver, could not access the timesheet for approval.

Defect 1240225: If your mobile application was set to the French (Canadian) language, timesheet periods with a Posted status were incorrectly translated.

Defect 1114302: When you selected an AP Invoice Approval record in the List View and entered a value in the Invoice field, you were not able to view the next record using the Detail View.

Defect 1227603: If you approved multiple AP Invoice Approvals when the setting to use files to group transactions was disabled, incorrect AP Vouchers were created in the same Batch ID file.

Defect 1237747: If a submitted invoice was rejected and returned, the Add Note option was not available on the Notes dialog box when you clicked Other Actions » Notes and you could not add a follow-up note to document the correction.

Defect 1239840: If you created multiple AP invoice approval records, the + Add Project link did not display in the second AP record that you created. This occurred if:

• You created an AP invoice record and associated it with a purchase order.

• You created another AP invoice record and chose a vendor without a purchase order.

Defect 1239925: On the AP Invoice Approvals main page, with more than one record displayed, when you clicked the Filter icon, the Status column did not have a search field or a drop-down icon. You were not able to filter the records by status.

Defect 1240386: On the AP Invoice Approvals form, when you selected an approval to edit, you received a "You do not have access" error when you tried to select a vendor from the lookup in the Vendor field.

Defect 1248053: When you selected a purchase order to be associated with an AP invoice, the description text from the purchase order line item was not transferred and the Description field was blank in the Project Detail section of the AP Invoice Approvals form.

Defect 1237740: When you opened the lookup on the Purchase Order field of the AP Invoice Approvals form, there were no Select All or Deselect All controls available on the Select Purchase Orders dialog box.

Defect 1237592: The Period Ending drop-down list defaulted to the first timesheet period in the next accounting period, instead of the current period.

Defect 1236115: This issue applies if you use multiple currencies. When you posted an AP voucher with two tax codes for a voucher line, and the tax codes had the same currency as the voucher payment currency, the total amount for the AP voucher was sometimes incorrect.

Defect 1241966: When you created a Cash Receipt transaction entry, the transaction did not appear on the Posting Review form or the Undo Posting form.

Defect 1228484: If you created a tax code while logged in using the English (International) language, and entered or modified an invoice that included tax codes in the Transaction Center, you received the following error: "Error occurred saving invoice."

Defect 1241597: When you entered a tax invoice in Transaction Center » Transaction Entry, if the tax code and invoice mapping were set to liability accounts, and the Maintain Separate Balance Sheet by Organization option was not selected in Desktop Settings » Organization » General, you could not save the invoice.

Defect 1251222: This issue applies for users whose security role gives them access only to Units by Project in Transaction Center » Transaction Entry. The lookup in the Unit Table field in the Project Information grid on the Units by Project form did not retrieve or display values.

Defect 1238192: If you owned the Asset Management module but not the Purchasing module, the Items tables were not available from the Table Description drop-down list on the advanced Import Utility screen.

Defect 1250569: When you entered an AP Voucher in a single currency database and then created a new Direct Debit Payment Run in Cash Management » Vendor Payments, the transaction displayed as 0.00 in Cash Management » Bank Reconciliation after you processed and posted the payment run.

Defect 1241519: This issue applies if you have Vantagepoint set up to integrate with Ajera. When you tried to add a new organization in Vantagepoint Settings » General » Organization, you received the following error message: "Record already exists and cannot be added." You also received the following sync failure error when you ran the Ajera integration: "Employee <XX> was not updated because the employee org is required."

Defect 1239946: When you use QuickBooks integration with Vantagepoint, Vantagepoint mistakenly created duplicate timesheet records in the database before timesheet were posted. The number of the duplicates created depended on the number of times users edited a timesheet before posting it and running the QuickBooks Integration. Duplicate timesheet records were then added in QuickBooks during the integration process.

Defect 1239947: When Vantagepoint and QuickBooks Online were synchronized, some Vantagepoint timesheets were not updated in QuickBooks Online, and you received the following error message: "Attempted to divide by zero' error during the process." This occurred for timesheets that had detail records with zero hours.

Defect 1243653: When you unposted a timesheet in Vantagepoint, the related entry in QuickBooks Online was not removed. If you then modified the timesheet in Vantagepoint and re-posted it, the timesheet was duplicated in QuickBooks Online.

Defect 1244806: In Vantagepoint, if you made changes to a firm that was both a client firm type and a vendor firm type and the firm was already added to QuickBooks Online during a synchronization, the following error displayed multiple times in the error log in Integrations » QuickBooks » Error Logs: “Failed Quickbooks integration.”

Defect 1244282: When you merged project records, assigned resources and dates in the source plan were merged into the new record, but the planned hours that were associated with the generic and employee resources were dropped.

Defect 1238191: When you created and ran a New Search and Replace and used a custom field in the Record Selection field to update Employees, you received an error message.

Defect 1239832: When you created a new Search and Replace run and used the Material Expediting Log application area option, you received the following message: "The multi-part identifier "CustPONumber" could not be bound."

Defect 1242923: When you tried to create a new search and replace run to update the Default Tax Code field in the Firms hub (application area), you received an "Invalid code table CFGBillTaxes" error.