Deltek Vantagepoint 5.0.6 (Build 5.0.6.1221) Release Notes
Release Date: October 3, 2022
Last Updated: October 3, 2022
Welcome to the Deltek Vantagepoint 5.0.6 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 5.0, some of which your firm may not use. Skip the sections that do not apply to your implementation of Deltek Vantagepoint.
Defect 1750204: On the Invoice Creation tab of the Batch Billing form, when you selected the Use Default Terms for Draft Invoices checkbox and then clicked the Create Invoices action to start processing invoices, the Batch Billing run failed and you received an "incorrect syntax" error message.
Defect 1727546: When you accepted an invoice in Interactive Billing, the Date field on the Invoice Accept dialog box incorrectly used the U.S. date format instead of the date format that you selected in My Preferences.
Defect 1715617: When you created a saved search or favorite report in a hub, the Create User, Create Date, Mod User, and Mod Date columns displayed a NULL value. These columns are now populated as part of an audit trail, to track the people who create or update saved searches and report favorites.
Defect 1731834: When a non-standard HTTPS port was used for your web server, you received an error message whenever you tried to export a record through List View in any of the hubs.
Defect 1737681: This issue occurred if you added or edited a phone number on the Contact Information dialog box in the Contacts hub. When you selected a Phone format in the Phone field, the field displayed as blank instead of listing the phone number.
Defect 1721186: This issue occurred when Voucher Review had a large volume of records in the grid. Vantagepoint stopped responding when you clicked the paper clip option under the Document column.
Defect 1488680: This issue occurred for invoices that you posted, voided, and reissued with the same invoice number but a different invoice date. On the Invoices form in Hubs » Projects » Invoices, the Days Out column in the Invoices grid incorrectly used the original invoice's invoice date. The Aged Accounts Receivable graph on the form correctly used the reissued invoice's date.
Defect 1696658: Employees or Contacts with the same role were displayed multiple times in the Team Members grid of the Team tab. This issue occurred when you performed this sequence of steps:
You entered the same employee or contact multiple times in the grid, but assigned each line item a different role.
You changed the employee's role or contact's role to match an existing role for the same employee or contact in the grid.
Defect 1727945: This issue occurred when you created and saved a phase or task record in the Projects hub and then deleted the record. If you then used Utilities » Key Conversions » Tasks » Change Number to change a different phase or task number to be the same as the number for the deleted record, you received an error message.
Defect 1746200: When you created a new project, you received this error message: "Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'BTPK'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.BT'"
This issue occurred when you created a project with the following conditions:
Autonumbering was enabled for the new project.
There was an active workflow with an error validation action.
You copied a project with billing terms, to use as the basis for the new project.
Defect 1746491: When you entered text in a drop-down field to search for an existing item in the field, you received the following error message: "Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'as'." This issue occurred in various drop-down fields throughout Vantagepoint. For example, this issue occurred in the Projects hub on the Teams tab when you clicked + Add Firm below the Firms grid and started typing text in the Name field.
Defect 1755693: When you tried to log in to Vantagepoint using a database that had no employee records, you received an error message saying that you did not have access to any companies and you were prevented from logging in successfully.
Defect 1375495: This issue occurred when your database is configured with the CRM or CRM Plus module only. You received an error message when you saved a chart dashpart with the project dashpart base if you included columns in the dashpart that should not have been available for CRM or CRM Plus only databases.
Defect 1740129: This issue occurred for table dashparts with the project dashpart base, if you had the following settings:
You grouped the dashparts by project; for example, by the Project Number & Name column.
You sorted the Transaction Date column.
You included the Employee Name and Regular Hours column in the dashpart.
All regular hours for a transaction date were displayed under one employee record.
Defect 1740818: When you configured the Employee Utilization predefined dashboard with a fiscal period date range, the value displayed in the Direct/Standard Hours column did not match the end date of the selected fiscal period.
Defect 1721697: When you specified starting and ending dates in the Time Frame Options section of the AR Comments report, Vantagepoint did not display any records in the generated report.
Defect 1723715: When you opened a Labor Resource Forecast report, updated the Format field on the Options tab, removed some default columns, and used the Save As option to generate a new report, the removed columns were still included in the new report.
Defect 1731691: When you included grid columns and user-defined numeric field types in the Project List report, an incorrect subtotal amount was displayed in the generated report.
Defect 1731920: When you selected report-specific options for a Cash Journal, Cash Receipts, Cash Flow Statement, or Payment Register report, bank codes that were not associated with the company were displayed in the Bank Information grid on the Options tab.
Defect 1736447: You encountered a performance issue when you ran the Employee Export report for a company or when you ran the same report to include active employees in a company.
Defect 1745590: When you generated a List report in a new hub that starts with "ID," you received this error message: "An error has occurred during report processing."
Defect 1730330: When you modified the steps for Timesheet Approvals in Settings » Workflow » Approval Workflows in the desktop application, Vantagepoint reset the status of the timesheets on the Approval Center form. This issue occurred when the timesheets had no hours and were automatically approved.
Defect 1739074: You were able to add a copy of a line on the Hours or Earnings tab and did not receive an error message. When you exported Vantagepoint timesheet data, the amount for the line item was doubled.
Defect 1737057: This issue occurred only in CRM and CRM+ databases. When you enabled Use Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) in Mobile CRM, you received this error message: "Code B does not exist. The value for field RealizationByEmployeeMethod will not be set."
Defect 1755926: When you deleted an employee from the Employee Overrides grid on the Billing Labor Category Tables form in Settings » Rate Tables » Billing Labor Categories, you received a "Rate Table was successfully saved" message. However, the next time you opened the table in Billing Labor Categories, the deleted employee still displayed in the grid.
Defect 1718227: On the Teams tab, the Type field did not automatically populate with the correct information. This issue occurred when you used the Import utility in Utilities » Desktop Imports, in the desktop application, to import projects with client association information.
Defect 1735782: The Database Name field that was inadvertently removed from the API Authorization form in a prior release was added back to the form.
Defect 1616015: This issue occurred if you use Vantagepoint Connect. When you edited the notes for a qualified contact in Microsoft Outlook, the Qualified Status field for the contact changed from Qualified to New Lead in the summary pane of the Contacts form (Hubs » Contacts » Contacts).
Database Changes (Deltek Vantagepoint 4.5 to Deltek Vantagepoint 5.0)
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