Deltek Vantagepoint 3.0.6 (Build 3.0.6.1531) Release Notes
Last Updated: June 22, 2020
Welcome to the Deltek Vantagepoint 3.0.6 Release Notes, which describe the new features and enhancements introduced in this release.
These release notes address all of the modules associated with Deltek Vantagepoint 3.0, some of which your firm may not use. Skip the sections that do not apply to your implementation of Deltek Vantagepoint.
Arizona 2020 SUTA Electronic Filing
Beginning February 28, 2020, the Arizona Department of Economic Security no longer accepts Unemployment Insurance wage data submitted on CDs or diskettes in the Magnetic Media Reporting and Electronic Filing (MMREF) format.
As an alternative, companies can choose either of the following options:
Use the comma-separated values (CSV) file format and file through the Arizona Unemployment Tax and Wage System on this website: https://uitws.azdes.gov/App/EmployerLogin.aspx.
Use the XML file format and file through the bulk filing process, which is a server-to-server process.
See the table below for guidelines on the CSV file format. For wage file upload instructions, see: https://des.az.gov/services/employment/unemployment-employer/wage-file-upload-instructions-required-format.
CSV File Format
Field
Description
Social Security Number
Required. No spaces or special characters.
Last Name
Required. Up to 30 characters: letters, numbers, hyphens, apostrophes, periods, and spaces only.
First Name
Required. Up to 15 characters: letters, numbers, hyphens, apostrophes, periods, and spaces only.
Total Wages
(Current Quarter Wages)
Required. Format is 9999.99; minimum amount is 0.01; maximum amount is 9999999.99.
Excess Wages
(Current Quarter Excess Wages)
Optional. Format is 9999.99; maximum amount is 9999999.99.
Excess Wages is an optional "field" for the upload file. However, you must either include them for all employees or leave them out for all employees. If you include them, you must enter an amount for each employee in the Excess Wages field, which means that you should enter 0.00 for any employee who was not paid excess wages.
Texas 2020 SUTA Electronic Filing
In the Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies (ICESA) file format, the following fields should now be reported as blank.
Record and Field
Old Specification Manual (October 2013)
Current ICESA Format
A 220
Allocation List Indicator
If an Allocation List is reported on this media, enter “Y”. If yes, complete “Service Agent ID” and “Total Remittance Amount” fields in this “A” record, as well as allocation amounts in appropriate “T” records. If not reporting Allocation List, leave blank. QuickFile users should leave this blank.
Blank
A 221-229
Service Agent ID
If reporting an Allocation List, enter 9-digit Service Agent ID number assigned by TWC. Omit hyphens. Otherwise, leave blank. QuickFile users should leave this blank.
Blanks
A 230-242
Total Remittance Amount
If reporting an Allocation List, enter total amount of Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) or check. Enter dollars and cents with no decimal point. This amount must match exactly with the money received by TWC. If not reporting Allocation List, leave blank. QuickFile users should leave this blank.
Blanks
B 15-22
Computer
Manufacturer’s name
Blanks
B 23-24
Internal Label
Blanks for diskette or CD
Blanks
B 26-27
Density
Blanks for diskette or CD
Blanks
B 28-30
Recording Code
(EBCDIC or ASCII Character Set)
Blanks for diskette or CD
Blanks
B 31-32
Number of Tracks
Blanks for diskette or CD
Blanks
B 33-34
Blocking Factor
Blanks for diskette or CD
Blanks
B 147-190
Organization Name
Name of the organization to which the media should be returned
Blanks
B 191-225
Street Address
Address where the media should be returned
Blanks
B 226-245
City
City where the media should be returned
Blanks
B 246-247
State
Standard two-character FIPS postal abbreviation. See Appendix B.
Blanks
B 253-257
Zip Code
Valid ZIP code
Blanks
B 258-262
Zip Code Extension
Four-digit extension of ZIP code with hyphen in position 258. If unknown, enter blanks.
Blanks
T 186-198
Allocation Amount
Optional. If reporting an Allocation List on this media, enter amount to be allocated to this employer account. Enter dollars and cents with no decimal point, right justify and zero fill. QuickFile users should leave this blank.
Blanks
For more information on the QuickFile Wage Reporting Program, see: https://www.twc.texas.gov/quickfile-wage-reporting-program.
For details on the ICESA format, see: https://www.twc.texas.gov/files/businesses/icesa-tape-format-with-c3-c4-mwr-allocation-data-information-twc.pdf.
Updated PHP Version
The Touch Server for this version of the Deltek Vantagepoint T&E mobile application has been upgraded to support PHP 7.4.6.
Defect 1299583: This issue applies if you use the Vantagepoint add-in for Microsoft Outlook. Users without access rights to the Employees hub could not add an activity with the Vantagepoint add-in for Microsoft Outlook.
Defect 1286340: When Project Record Access was set to Read only in Security » Roles, you could not view the entire description in the Description grid on the Proposals tab of the Projects hub.
Defect 1300998: On any grid, when you pinned a column and then scrolled horizontally across the grid, the component options for the column appeared behind it. As a result, you then had to click on the pinned column to display the options list.
Defect 1291113: The Total Pre-Invoice Applied amount was incorrectly included on an invoice in Interactive Billing when the invoice template for the invoice did not have any of the pre-invoice columns selected for inclusion on the invoice.
Defect 1298444: When you final accepted an invoice in Interactive Billing, the Invoice Accept dialog box incorrectly showed a unit line with no ledger account. When you clicked Accept on the dialog box, you received a "nBillAccount was blank" error. This issue occurred if you selected the Review GL Details on Accept check box on the Billing Session Options dialog box.
Defect 1304626: You were unable to insert records in Interactive Billing for any WBS level that was approved for use in processing (specified on the Accounting tab in the Projects hub) if any of the lower-level WBS records were not approved for use in processing.
Defect 1305472: On the Labor tab in Interactive Billing, if you selected a row in the Labor grid and then clicked Summary on the toolbar of the grid, the hours and amounts for the selected row were added twice to to the summary totals on the Billing Labor Summary dialog box.
Defect 1299898: This issue applies if you use multiple currencies in Vantagepoint. On the Invoice Approvals form, when you clicked Open in Draft Invoices for an invoice in the grid, the invoice values that displayed in the Draft Invoice Details grid on the General tab of the Draft Invoice Approvals form were correct. However, the Billing Currency field incorrectly displayed the project currency instead of the billing currency for the project. The currency displayed correctly on a printed invoice.
Defect 1311661: The billing invoice approval process incorrectly sent email alerts for each invoice when the approval process alerts were set to Per Session in Configuration » Billing » Invoice Approval Process in the desktop application.
Defect 724008: When you saved a bank reconciliation that had a direct deposit with a zero amount, you received the following error: "[expression must evaluate to a node-set]. A direct deposit entry with a zero amount shouldn’t have been included in a bank reconciliation."
Defect 736056: A cash receipt was incorrectly excluded in the uncleared balance on the Summary tab for the current month's bank statement when you opened a bank statement for the current and future months and you cleared the cash receipt in the future month. The uncleared receipt balance on the current month's statement should have included the cash receipt that was cleared on the future bank statement.
Defect 1307739: When processing an employee payment run, you received an error message that read "Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'exChecksTaxPK'." This defect occurred if an expense report included in the payment run had a reverse tax charge.
Defect 1308936: This issue applies if you have Tax Auditing enabled and you configured discounts to apply to taxes on the Discounts tab in Settings » Cash Management » Accounts Payable. A voided vendor payment did not reverse the discount on the tax amount to the account that was originally used in Vendor Payments.
Defect 1279975: On the Budget tab of the General Ledger Budget form, if you selected all the accounts in the Budget grid and then selected the Copy Amounts option in the Other Actions drop-down list, when you tried to copy the Income Statement or Balance Sheet into either a new or an existing General Ledger Budget, no amounts were displayed.
Defect 1267186: If you your security role granted you view access to see only your own employee record, and you were not one of the attendees listed, then you were unable to view attendees for activities In the Activities grid.
Defect 1289047: This issue occurred when you modified the caption of the Phone field for the Contacts hub on the Screen Designer form (Other Actions » Design). After you saved and closed Screen Designer, the change was not applied to the Overview tab of the Contacts form.
Defect 1297214: The number of records visible in search results in the Contacts hub was lower than the actual number of records in the hub.
Defect 1285242: When you exported information from List View in the Employees hub, the column title for Home Company was incorrectly exported as Home Office.
Defect 1305984: When you clicked + New Employee in the Employees hub, Vantagepoint displayed the spinning wheel and the form was not responsive.
Defect 1260608: When you saved a new firm record with one address, any additional firms that you added with the same address resulted in an error when you tried to save.
Defect 1300481: When you selected the Billed Invoice number field lookup on the Voucher Options/Details dialog box in Firms » Voucher Review, the results list included all invoices and you could not filter the results by invoice, project, phase, task, or client.
Defect 1302593: When you viewed a voucher in Firms » Voucher Review, the Voucher ID was truncated and as a result the entire number was not visible.
Defect 1304059: When a firm was designated as both a vendor and a client, if you updated the client in the Firms hub and your role did not have access to the Vendors tab, you received an error message: "Record Already Exists Cannot Be Added."
Defect 1287381: When you modified a project, Vantagepoint became unresponsive. Then, when you navigated back to the Projects hub to check on the modifications that you made, you discovered that your changes had not been saved.
Defect 1291390: When you used Quick Find (instead of Advanced Search) on key Employee fields, Vantagepoint returned all employees including inactive and terminated employees, instead of returning only active employees.
Defect 1304815: If you added Phase Number and Phase Name columns while in list view and then selected the Filter icon and searched for values in the Phase Number or Phase Name field, Vantagepoint did not return any search results.
Defect 1306730: When you added a new phase for an existing project, values from the project's user defined fields were not copied to the newly added phase. Instead, default values were used for the user defined fields in the newly added phase.
Defect 1308236: The total amount on the Invoice Accept dialog box differed from the total amount in the approved invoice on file. This issue occurred when a billing phase entry in the Billing Phases grid on the Fees tab of a project's billing terms was not approved for use in processing, but was available to be selected for posting, resulting in discrepancies for the invoice amounts.
Defect 1308292: When you copied the billing terms from another project, the phases to post in the Fee Billing Phases grid were also copied to the new project. This occurred even if the Approved for Use in Processing option was not selected for the phase on the new project on the Accounting tab of the Projects form.
Defect 1308860: This issue applies if you have multiple phase groups for your project. On the Fees tab of the Billing Terms form, when you clicked the Phase Grouping option to access the Billing Phase Grouping dialog box, you could not view the column headers, sort the contents, or scroll through the entries in the grid.
Defect 1310742: When you deleted a billing phase in the Fee Billing Phases grid on the Fees tab of a project's billing terms, the associated billing categories for a deleted billing phase were not removed and added to another phase.
Defect 1310758: When you tried to delete the last row in the Fee Billing Phases grid on the Fees tab in Billing Terms, the row was deleted, and an empty row was automatically added to the grid. When you tried to save the change, you received an error message.
Defect 1310791: When you tried to copy a row in the Billing Phases grid on the Fees tab of a project's billing terms while in Edit Mode, the row that you copied disappeared when you clicked Save.
Defect 1299742: When you opened a project that used multiple currencies and had symbols specified in the Currency Symbol field in Settings » Currency » Options, when you navigated to the Contract tab of the Contract Management form (in Hubs » Projects » Contract Management), the currency symbols displayed only the Functional Currency value.
Defect 1306152: You were able to see final accepted invoices in the Invoice application in the Projects hub or on the AR Ledger report. However, they were displaying correctly in Interactive Billing.
Defect 1301078: If you provided an actual start date and estimated completion date for a lower-level work breakdown structure (WBS) element (a phase or task, for example) when you created a new project, those dates were correctly saved and displayed on the Dates & Costs tab of the Projects form for that WBS element. They should also have been used as the plan start and end dates for that WBS element, but they were not. Instead, the actual start date and estimated completion date at the project level were used as the plan start date and plan end date for all lower-level WBS elements.
Defect 1297624: When you copied a project from an existing project with a Won/Loss Date, the date was incorrectly transferred to the new project.
Defect 1300965: When revenue codes were disabled in Settings » Accounting » User-defined Revenue, the Revenue Menu Codes continued to display on the Accounting tab in the Projects hub.
Defect 1301083: When you were in List View and exported a list of projects to a spreadsheet, the comma-separated values (CSV) file did not include phase and task information.
Defect 1304611: When you selected the Accounting tab and clicked the Edit button, the Unit Table field in the Expense section of the form did not display a drop-down selection list.
Defect 1306069: When you tried to access the Edit Project Structure form in the Projects hub, Vantagepoint displayed the spinning wheel and the form was unresponsive.
Defect 1308868: When you were in list view and downloaded a comma-separated values (CSV) file for overhead charge type projects with the Stage field column activated, the output file displayed 'text not translated' in the resulting data.
Defect 1291385: Project Review extracted the cost overhead data from the Overhead % in Settings » Accounting » Overhead Allocation instead of the planning source.
Defect 1242642: The workflow related properties of the timesheet lines were not updated when you approved multiple timesheet lines with the following properties:
Approval Action: The field only displayed the Reassign option.
My Action Required: This field displayed the None value.
Defect 1287158: Posted timesheets with detail records that have not yet been approved displayed as In Progress in the Approval Center.
Defect 1302560: Some project milestones were not displayed in the Upcoming Milestones system dashpart when you selected the Project Manager search filter option.
Defect 1305439: When you uploaded or deleted supporting documents and then attempted to save an expense report, the expense report did not finish processing or save properly.
Defect 990912: When you used an Advanced Search that included a date column with a string data type, an error occurred with the Posting Review report.
Defect 1287164: On the Options tab of the Project Detail report: If you selected the Include Unposted Labor check box in the Labor section and then selected an option from the Select by Billing Status drop-down list in the Detail Options section, all unposted labor timesheets were excluded from the report.
Defect 1291174: If you assigned resources at the labor code level in a project plan, the Project Planning Schedule report did not display the resources. They should have been displayed under the lowest-level elements of the project work breakdown structure.
Defect 1291181: If you assigned resources at the labor code level in a project plan, the Project Planning Analysis report did not display the resources. They should have been displayed under the lowest-level project work breakdown structure elements.
Defect 1293804: When you selected Business Development Lead as the sort criteria on the Columns & Groups tab of the Project Hit Rate report and then tried to run the report, you received an error: "Query execution failed for dataset 'ReportDataset'. (rsErrorExecutingCommand)"
Defect 1295122: This issue occurred when you ran a favorite report that another user created. If you ran the favorite from the Report Options tab instead of the Favorite List and the Calculated Fields were not set to Global, they did not display on the report.
Defect 1298768: On the Chart of Accounts or General Ledger reports, the wrong search results were displayed when you used an advanced search with the "Contains" and "Starts With" search conditions for general ledger accounts.
Defect 1300466: In Reporting » Projects, the Project column drop-down list did not display any non-US English (such as, English International, Portuguese, German, Dutch, French) data although those languages were enabled.
Defect 1300469: The Display Options section of the Options tab for the AR Aged Report showed a Final Average Date check box. This check box was mislabeled and has been changed to Final Receipt Date.
Defect 1302534: When you tried to run a Time Analysis report that had a Calculated field, but you did not also include Calculated Field columns from the Columns & Groups tab, you received the following error message: "Object Reference not set to an instance of the object."
Defect 1302537: This issue occurred if, in Asset Management » Disposal Processing (in the desktop application), you set Assets to Sold and the transaction resulted in a loss. When you ran the Asset Summary report in desktop Reporting, instead of displaying all assets that were sold at a loss, the assets were displayed as gains.
Defect 1304594: When you selected the Sum Up Calculated Amounts on Total Lines check box on the Calculated Fields dialog box (which you display by clicking +New Calculation on the Columns & Groups tab), your check box selection was not saved. As a result, the calculated fields were not totaled.
Defect 1305049: In Executive reports, when you selected the Use Summary Tables option and then tried to run the Project Top Bottom Performers report, no data was displayed.
Defect 1305051: On the Voucher Ledger report, when you selected custom and filter options and then tried to run the report, it timed out and did not finish generating.
Defect 1299981: When you entered a name or number in the Project field on a new timesheet line to search for a project, an incomplete list of records was returned in the Project/Phase/Task Lookup dialog box.
Defect 1309288: If you used the Microsoft Edge browser to open Vantagepoint and viewed submitted timesheet records in My Stuff » Timesheet, you were unable to scroll down to the last line item entries in a timesheet.
Defect 1298474: This issue occurred for employees associated with more than one company, if date ranges were enabled under Payroll Settings. When you processed payroll payments for employees that had no unpaid hours in the active company (company A) but who did have unpaid timesheet hours in another company (company B), the affected employees were included in the employee review for payroll processing and Vantagepoint produced checks with zero amounts for printing.
Defect 1279615: This issue occurred when you ran a Resources report in Resource Management (Resource Management » Reporting) for which you selected the Forecast Range column. If you set Show Projects to No, the Actual rows on the report should have displayed actual hours for each resource, but instead those rows were blank.
Defect 1279193: When you used the Advanced Search feature in the Firms hub, searching on the state of Washington resulted in the search value and search results changing to Western Australia.
Defect 1302439: When you set the Record Access for Firms (in Settings » Security » Roles) to view only fields Not Equal, and then ran a search, Vantagepoint did not return all empty records.
Defect 1293718: The + Add Accrual Code option did not display below the Accrual Codes grid. This issue occurred in multicompany organizations, when the Full access to all Companies option was not selected for your role on the Access Rights tab (Settings » Security » Roles).
Defect 1313597: You received an "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error when you copied, edited, or created a unit table with more than one unit on the Unit Tables form if you had unit debit and credits not distributed by organization (specified in Settings » Accounting » Posting Accounts) so that a project is required and you do not use tasks.
Defect 1306267: Emails were not sent for past due credit card transaction alerts if your enterprise has multiple companies and uses multiple currencies.
Defect 1299496: On the Grid Settings dialog box in Screen Designer, the order of the values that you entered for a drop-down type column in a user-defined grid were not retained after you saved these entries on the dialog box, clicked Save on the Screen Designer form, and exited Screen Designer.
Defect 1300929: This issue occurred if your security role did not have full access to reports specified on the Overview tab of the Roles form. If you a standard report was related to a custom report that you created, the standard report was missing from the Reports for this Role grid on the Access Rights tab.
Defect 1252572: When you switched to List View and used the Filter icon to search for a user in the User Name column, one of two things happened. Either filtering was not executed or the user was available in the drop-down list but the record did not display in the grid when you selected one.
Defect 1299882: When you used Screen Designer to edit a user defined button for the Employees form, the Workflow drop-down field in the Field Properties displayed gibberish as the default value. When you displayed the menu of the Workflow drop-down field, the correct options were displayed in the menu. However, when you selected an option in the drop-down menu and then saved and exited Screen Designer, the Workflow drop-down field still displayed gibberish as the default value when you opened Screen Designer again.
Defect 1302487: This defect applies when using multiple companies. When you added a Past Due Notification in the Steps Actions grid and the record was not approved or the workflow was not completed by the due date, Vantagepoint sent an email to all employees assigned to an approval role in the multicompany organization. This error occurred if:
You assigned one employee to an approval role for each company in the Individual Organization Setup form in Settings » Organization » Individual (in the desktop application).
In the Project field in Transaction Center » AP Invoice Approvals form, the submitter selected a project that is associated with only one of the companies in the organization.
Defect 1300676: When you logged in to Vantagepoint Mobile using the Fr-Ca language and proceeded to Settings, the French translation for Forget Me on This Device was incorrect.
Defect 1296986: You received an error message in the following scenario:
In Transaction Center » AP Invoice Approvals, you clicked Upload AP Invoice and completed the fields while also selecting a PO in the Purchase Order field, and submitted the record.
You opened the Vantagepoint desktop application, selected Transaction Center » Create Voucher From PO, opened the voucher record, and clicked Post Voucher.
Defect 1301189: You received an error message when you tried to approve a submitted AP Invoice Approval record. This issue occurred when you enabled the Automatically Approve When Most Recent Approver Is Same As Current Assignee option on the General tab of the Approvals Configuration form in Settings » Workflow » Approval Workflows (in the desktop application).
Defect 1302369: When you saved or submitted an AP Invoice Approvals record, the Pay Date field became enabled and displayed as a required field.
This issue occurred if:
You previously saved an AP Invoice Approvals record that is associated with a vendor that has Date as a default payment term.
You then created a second record and selected a vendor that has payment terms that were any of the following: Hold, Next, or PWP (Pay When Paid).
Defect 1301974: Duplicate postings were displayed in the Accounts Payable Posting Log report.
Defect 1309650: The tax value displayed on the Accounts Payable Posting Log was less than the correct tax value.
Defect 1309612: If a timesheet contained units and you posted that timesheet from two different tabs, the second posting was blank and the units posted twice in Time and Expense Posting.
Defect 1289792: This issue occurred when you set Enable Detailed Subledgers for Intercompany Billing to No in Settings » Accounting » Posting Accounts and tried to enter a cash receipt entry for an intercompany Accounts Receivable account in the Project information grid in Transaction Entry. When you added the account number, you received an error message: “Posting to an Intercompany Account is not permitted."
Defect 1301054: If your role did not have access to the Employee hub, when you selected Open Deltek from Outlook you were not able to see your contacts.
Defect 1297081: If you use QuickBooks integration, expense reimbursements paid to employees in QuickBooks were not showing as Paid in Vantagepoint. This issue occurred if there were more than 1,000 records to integrate, and the first 1,000 records were not Bill type records for expense reimbursements.
Defect 1310397: On the QuickBooks Integration form, when you clicked Connect on the Integration Setup tab, you were logged out of Vantagepoint and were unable to log back in.
Defect 1308354: When you tried to change the phase number of a phase on the Change Number tab, the Run button was displayed in gray, as if disabled, even though the button was functional.
Issue: Prevented SQL injection from authenticated users in Settings » Cash Management » Cash Flow Statement and General Ledger » Consolidations. (Issue 1298862 and 1311323)
Severity: Critical
Status: Fixed
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