Deltek Vantagepoint 4.5.9 (Build 4.5.9.1859) Release Notes
 
Release Date: May 31, 2022
Last Updated: May 31, 2022


Welcome to the Deltek Vantagepoint 4.5.9 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 4.5, some of which your firm may not use. Skip the sections that do not apply to your implementation of Deltek Vantagepoint.


Enhancements


CRM


Vantagepoint Connect Meeting Activities

Previously, when you created and saved meeting activities in Connect, the details were automatically synced to Outlook or Gmail and all associated contacts were invited to the meeting when you saved. Now, when you create an activity with a display type of Calendar, you receive a warning message prompting you to confirm that you want to save the activity and notify all attendees. The message text is as follows:

"Because you selected a type that displays on your calendar, this activity will be synced to your email application's calendar and all attendees will be invited to it. Select an activity type that does not display on your calendar to avoid inviting attendees."

Click OK to save and notify attendees or click Cancel to cancel the update.


Mobile >> Vantagepoint Connect


Vantagepoint Connect Meeting Activities

Previously, when you created and saved meeting activities in Connect, the details were automatically synced to Outlook or Gmail and all associated contacts were invited to the meeting when you saved. Now when you create an activity with a display type of Calendar, you receive a warning message prompting you to confirm that you want to save the activity and notify all attendees. The message text is as follows:

"Because you selected a type that displays on your calendar, this activity will be synced to your email application's calendar and all attendees will be invited to it. Select an activity type that does not display on your calendar to avoid inviting attendees."

Click OK to save and notify attendees or click Cancel to cancel the update.

In Mobile CRM, the warning message mentioned above also displays when you select or change the Type value of a meeting activity to Calendar, if the Vantagepoint Connect add-in in Deltek Vantagepoint has been configured to allow synchronization of contacts and calendar items for your account.

The Calendar type of Mobile CRM is the equivalent of the Calendar display type in Vantagepoint (in Settings » Labels and Lists » Lists).


Software Issues Resolved


API


Defect 1652516: When you created a batch for a set of journal entries using the POST Create Journal Entry Control API endpoint, which has multiple master records that have multiple detail lines, the reference number for the first master record was set as the reference number for the detail records of all the subsequent master records.


Billing >> Batch Billing


Defect 1536372: This issue occurred in Batch Billing when you created invoices for a draft run type, and on the Schedule dialog box, you selected the Submit to a Profile check box and entered an existing profile to submit to. The invoice batch was not submitted to the profile in Utilities » Process Server » Profile Editor.


Defect 1643444: After you processed a final invoice batch in Batch Billing, the current fee amount for projects with fee billing terms was incorrect.

This issue occurred when you did the following:

  1. In Batch Billing, you submitted a batch of invoices for approval.

  2. In Hubs » Projects » Draft Invoice Approvals, you entered comments and approved the invoices in the batch.

  3. In Interactive Billing, you updated the percent complete for more than one project that had invoices in the batch.

  4. You returned to Batch Billing and processed a final run for the batch.

In Interactive Billing, the current fee for the invoices with fee billing was incorrect. The updates to the percent complete amounts that you made in Interactive Billing in step 3 were ignored.


Billing >> Interactive Billing


Defect 1589157: This issue applies if you use invoice approvals. In Interactive Billing, when you added comments for a draft invoice and you included a URL link in the comments, the URL did not open when you clicked it. This occurred when you clicked More in the Draft Invoices Comment field on the General tab.


Defect 1646229: In Interactive Billing, you were allowed to re-allocate fee amounts to work breakdown levels 2 and 3 (phase and task) that were not approved for use in processing. This caused the invoice transaction entry to have a different amount than the accepted invoice.


Defect 1651134: This issue applies when a project's billing terms has the Enable Add-on check box selected on the More Calculations tab at the project level, but not at the phase or task (WBS 2 or 3) levels. When you accepted an invoice in Interactive Billing, you could see the add-on listed on the Invoice Accept dialog box. However, the add-on did not display on the invoice as it should have. (The Invoice Posting log correctly showed the add-on for the invoice.)


Defect 1671465: On the Email Invoice dialog box, the cursor did not display when you clicked the CC and BCC fields. Although you were still able to enter information, the entered text appeared in a blue popup below the intended field.

This issue also occurred in Billing » Batch Billing and in Hubs » Projects » Draft Invoice Approvals.


Defect 1673555: In Interactive Billing, when you modified a pay-when-paid (PWP) voucher, modified it again, and then accepted the invoice that included the PWP voucher, the PWP voucher record did not show the accepted (paid) invoice.


Billing >> Invoice Approvals


Defect 1642177: This issue occurred if you use invoice approvals for a project. When you changed the entry in a field that is part of the invoice approval workflow after you enabled the approval process for the project in Billing Terms, but before you submitted an invoice for an approval, the entry in the field was not used for the approval process as it should have been.


Cash Management >> Bank Reconciliation


Defect 1642090: When the amounts in the Calculated Balance and Closing Balance fields were the same on the Summary tab of the Bank Reconciliation form, you incorrectly received the following message: "Bank Reconciliation does not tie out."


Defect 1643428: In the Payments grid in Bank Reconciliation, the value in the Amount field was incorrect. This issue occurred when:


Cash Management >> Vendor Payments


Defect 1645942: This issue occurred when you did not have access rights to the Employees hub but you did have access to all vendor functionality and Vendor Payments. When you processed vendor payments and tried to send remittance advices, you received a "You do not have access" error message.


Defect 1652277: This issue occurred when you created a voucher from a purchase order record and set the pay terms in the desktop application. When you selected the voucher for payment, you received this error nessage: "Code 10 does not exist. The value for field PayTerms will not be set. Object reference not set to an instance of an object."


Hubs >> Activities


Defect 1627338: When you set preferences to receive reminders for your scheduled activities, Vantagepoint ran a query that caused performance issues and a spike in your CPU usage.


Hubs >> Employee >> Employees


Defect 1516000: When you created and saved a new employee record, you received the following error message: "Withholding Core {0} already exists for this Team Member." The issue occurred for users without access to the Payroll tab of the Employees form.


Hubs >> Projects >> Plan


Defect 1672338: If you checked out a plan and selected Other Actions » Delete Plan Assignments, when you viewed the plan in Hubs » Projects » Revenue Forecast the plan's revenue forecast entries were incorrectly deleted.


Hubs >> Projects >> Project


Defect 1626295: This issue occurred if you logged in to Vantagepoint with French (Canada) selected as the default language. When you selected a project with a billing client and clicked the info bubble next to the Billing Client field on the Project form, the info bubble text was displayed in English.


Defect 1641590: This issue occurred after upgrading to 4.5. On the Team tab of the Projects form, the Team Member grid displayed no firms for contacts.


Hubs >> Projects >> Project Review


Defect 1645826: This defect applies if you use the Purchasing application. On the Purchasing Tab of the Project Review form, when you included a voucher in a purchase order, the Vouchered Amount field prefilled with a value even if the invoice was not posted.


My Stuff >> Dashboards


Defect 1638395: This issue occurred in dashparts with the project dashpart base if you included the Effective Multiplier column twice. When you applied a date range to the first Effective Multiplier column but did not apply a date range to the second Effective Multiplier column, the date range configuration of the first Effective Multiplier column was also applied to the second one.


My Stuff >> Expense Report


Defect 1522377:  When you configured the New Credit Card Transactions Available alert to use the French language, you incorrectly received this alert in English: "Click here to view this credit card item."


My Stuff >> Reporting


Defect 1630164: When you generated the Billing Terms List, the billing limits information was not included in the report. This issue occurred even when you included the billing limits information in the report options and also defined the details in the Billing Limits section on the More Calculations tab in Hubs » Projects » Billing Terms.


Defect 1648082: This issue occurred when you generated a Project Summary report and, on the preview report, drilled down on the value of the Current Hours field or the Current Billed field. The value that displayed was that of the JTD Hours or JTD Billed field.


Defect 1651535: This issue occurred on the Tax Analysis report. When you selected Use Cash Basis on the Options tab of report options, invoices with zero tax rates were not displayed on the report.


Defect 1673516: After you upgraded to Vantagepoint version 4.5.8, users that had multi-factor authentication enabled for Vantagepoint were unable to generate any report in My Stuff » Reporting.


Defect 1675400: If you selected a presentation currency when generating the Trial Balance report with multiple organizations included, you received the following error message: "An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Query execution failed for dataset 'ReportDataset'. (rsErrorExecutingCommand) For more information about this error, navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors."


My Stuff >> Timesheet


Defect 1550798: When you clicked the Awaiting Approval icon on the Approval Timeline dialog box, the name of the requester's supervisor was not the assigned supervisor for the employee (as specified in Hubs » Employees » Overview).


Defect 1647154: When you entered a project for a timesheet, it took a long time for the Project lookup to display. You encountered a performance issue in displaying records when you did one of the following:


Notifications


Defect 1572131: The Notifications Center displayed an incorrect timesheet ending date for an overdue timesheet.


Defect 1634480: In the Notification Center, you received an overdue alert for a timesheet record that you already submitted. This issue occurred if you submitted your timesheet past the end date of the timesheet period.


Purchasing >> Purchase Orders


Defect 1468029: When you clicked a link in a purchasing email notification for an approval, you were redirected to the desktop application. A blank screen displayed and you were unable to view the record.

This issue occurred even when you selected the Enable Purchase Orders in the Web Application check box in Settings » General » Modules, which should have resulted in the purchase order record being displayed in the browser application.


Defect 1633153: On the Purchase Orders form, if you tried to copy a purchase order that contained a cost distribution for a dormant project, the dormant project's cost distribution row was copied to, instead of excluded from, the new PO.


Defect 1634307: When you rejected a purchase order, the Vendor field was incorrectly shaded (grayed out) and you could not change its value.


Defect 1652319: When you opened a purchase order and clicked Mark Final on the Actions bar, you received a random, alphanumeric error message.


Resource Management >> Resource View


Defect 1612493: When you were using a very large database, if you selected a resource, clicked +, and selected a project on the Add Assignments dialog box, you may have received the following error message: "Lock request time out period exceeded."


Settings >> Cash Management >> Banks


Defect 1636610: When you generated a text file from the User Defined File Format tab in Banks Settings, the first transaction detail appeared twice. This issue occurred if you did the following:

  1. You set the Line Type option to Detail 1.

  2. In the Employee grid, you added a row and then set the Data Mapping option to Record Count.


Settings >> Labels and Lists >> Lists


Defect 1581792: This issue occurred if there were 100 or more employee titles in the Employee Title list.

You could not reorder the employee titles on the Employee Title Settings dialog box.


Settings >> Rate Tables >> Billing Labor Rates


Defect 1527309: When you clicked + Add Employees in the Employees grid, the Employee Lookup took a long time to retrieve employee records.


Settings >> Security >> Roles


Defect 1635093: If your user role did not have access to Settings » Security » Users, the Post User field on the Posting Review form displayed the value of the Username field and not the value of DisplayUsername field.


Settings >> Time >> Time Categories


Defect 1631484: This issue occurred when you edited the category code in the Category field for an existing time category. Timesheet entries that used the old category code did not display on timesheet records in My Stuff » Timesheets.


Settings >> Workflow >> Scheduled Workflows


Defect 1636009: The value of the Value field in a condition row changed to the code value of the selected option. This issue occurred if you did the following:

  1. You set up a workflow action with multiple condition rows and one of the rows displayed a drop-down menu for the Value field.

  2. You selected an option from the Value drop-down field.

  3. You deleted the condition row below the row with the drop-down field.


Transaction Center >> Transaction Entry >> Cash Receipts


Defect 1610520: This issue occurred when you created a Cash Receipt transaction record. If you used the Invoice Lookup to select an invoice, the invoice number initially displayed correctly but was then quickly replaced by the value of a random invoice.


Transaction Center >> Transaction Entry >> Journal Entries


Defect 1502946: In a Journal Entries transaction record, the Phase field and the Account field of the detail line became disabled and you received an error message that read: "Phase Name: Indirect Account is not permitted with a regular Project."

This issue occurred if you did the following:


Translation


Defect 1672566: This applies when you log in to Vantagepoint using the English (International) language. Some instances of the words Synchronisation and Authorisation incorrectly used the English (United States) spellings, Synchronization and Authorization.


Utilities >> History Loading >> Account Balances


Defect 1478332: This issue occurred if you use multiple currencies. In the Account Balances grid of the Account Balances form, the Account Currency column displayed the functional currency instead of the currency associated with the account.


Utilities >> Key Conversions >> Employees


Defect 1561483: When you ran the key conversion utility to combine employee records, you received the following error message: "Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'tkBreakTimePK'."


Utilities >> Key Conversions >> Firms


Defect 1636322: When you ran the key conversion utility to combine two firm records with different firm types, there were missing vouchers in the merged firm record in Hubs » Firms » Voucher Review.


Database Changes

Database Changes (Deltek Vantagepoint 4.0 to Deltek Vantagepoint 4.5)


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