Costpoint 8.2 Videos and Learning Aids
Use learning aids, in a variety of formats, to assist you as you work with Costpoint 8.2.
Use the following Quick Steps , Click Guide , and Video links to navigate to the learning aids that you want to explore.
You can scroll through this topic or click one of the following links to go directly to a section of learning aids:
- Costpoint General Information
- Costpoint Supplier Portal
- Accounting
- Materials
- Projects
- Contract Management
- Reports and Analytics
- Time and Expense
- Planning
- People
- Administration
- Costpoint Business Intelligence
Costpoint General Information
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View this video to learn how to navigate in Costpoint. Starting with the home screen, this video guides you through basic UI elements such as the File menu, keyboard shortcuts, the global toolbar, and the navigation toolbar. |
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Click through this presentation to learn highlights of the Costpoint navigation, menu structure, global icons, subtasks, user preferences, and more. |
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Click through this presentation to learn how to log in to Costpoint, review the legal statement, and create a Costpoint desktop shortcut for easy access. This presentation also includes information on the mobile QR code that you can scan and use to log in to Costpoint on your mobile device. |
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View this video to learn about resources that are available to help you use Costpoint. |
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View this quick reference card to learn how to use the Query function to search for one or more existing records available for a particular screen. This QRC also illustrates how to use the Lookup function to select from a list of valid values for a particular field. |
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Any screen in Costpoint that has the Query function can display in form view or table view. View this quick reference card to see the differences between the form view, with data displayed in fields that are grouped on tabs, and table view, in which the same data is displayed in rows and columns. |
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View this quick reference card to learn about elements of the Print Options dialog box, including options for delivery, batch printing, document locale, and paging, and a summary of each tab's purpose. |
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View this quick reference card to learn about shortcut keys, which can reduce the chances of incurring repetitive strain injuries, as well as toolbar icons and buttons used throughout the Costpoint user interface. |
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Costpoint GovCon Cloud Moderate (GCCM) Overview - Functional Reference Guide |
View this guide to learn about Costpoint GovCon Cloud Moderate, Deltek's solution for cybersecurity compliance standards for government contractors. |
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This video discusses the different ways to set up and manage My Menu. |
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Click through this presentation to learn how to configure and send interactive emails in Costpoint Time & Expense. |
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Costpoint Supplier Portal
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This video demonstrates the overall functionality of the Supplier Portal feature, which suppliers use to work with purchase orders and invoices. |
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Click through this presentation to learn how to use the Supplier Portal to access purchase orders issued by buyers, submit shipping notifications, generate invoices, and approve invoices. |
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Click through this presentation to learn how to set up email notifications for the Supplier Portal. |
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Click through this presentation to learn how to set up users as suppliers or buyers for the Supplier Portal. |
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Accounting
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Click through this presentation to learn how to configure Costpoint to post foreign currency gains/losses to projects. |
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Materials
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This video explains how to load Standard text codes without having to click any extra buttons in certain applications. This affects 33 applications under Costpoint Materials. |
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This video explains the ability to create journal entries from standard cost updates. This feature is intended so users can create cost adjustment entries in both the inventory transactions and the General Ledger, affecting six applications in Costpoint Materials. |
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This video explains additional reconciliation capabilities that now exist to reconcile serial lot quantity. When the inventory quantities are out of sync with the serial lot quantities, the reconciliation attempts to align the quantities. |
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This video discusses several enhancements to cycle and physical count inventories. |
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This video explains how to include delivery schedules on requests for quotes (RFQ) and quotes so that vendors can see the delivery schedules when creating quotes. |
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This video discusses how to combine and consolidate multiple requisitions into a single request for quote (RFQ) and then utilize and view the consolidated requisition by autoloading the RFQ onto the quote. |
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This video discusses printing the DPAS Rating on Manufacturing Order Documentation to help production schedule the orders according to the DPAS Rating codes and to avoid possible violations of government requirements. |
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This video explains how to see if a Detailed Part Schedule has any MRP Exception Action Messages for a specific order, and how to visualize a simulation of the Detailed Part Schedule lines if these Action Messages are to be implemented. |
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This video discusses the NAICS code and business size update that allows procurement users to see and print the vendor business size on the purchase order (PO). |
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This video discusses the feature that allows you to have MRP generate requisition delivery schedules for the different requisition lines when the part and inventory abbreviation are the same, but the due dates are different. |
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This video discusses Costpoint customer returns for Return Material Authorizations (RMA). This functionality handles the return process from receiving and inspecting the customer material, to processing the refund or shipment back to the customer either as a replacement or for repair. |
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This video discusses the manufacturing order backflush enhancements to allow backflush parts to be serial or lot tracked. |
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This video discusses the subcontractor intracompany work assignments that allows companies on the same database and using the same co-deployed Time & Expense (TE) to create an easy movement of charges and expenses from a performing company to a contracting company without an IWO (Inter-entity Work Order). |
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This video discusses the option to require a purchase order (PO) change order when a user modifies an Open purchase order. |
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This video discusses the enhancement that allows users to easily print from the Manage screens instead of opening another application to preview/print a document or report. |
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This video discusses the interactive email in an adaptive card format that allow you to approve purchase requisitions right from your MS Outlook email without the need to log in to Costpoint. |
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This video discusses the inventory balance enhancements that allow users to see an inventory on-hand running balance after each transaction in View Transaction History. |
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Vouchered PO Receipts: Hard Stop Settings and Communications |
This video discusses the vouchered purchase order (PO) receipts enhancements that provide users an option to stop users from deleting or editing PO receipts or inspections when a voucher exists or the voucher has been posted, and allow users to easily contact the Accounts Payable (AP) department when deleting or editing a PO receipt or inspection. |
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This video discusses the new Payment Schedule subtask in several applications that users can use to set up payments and due dates related to the purchase order (PO) line. This functionality also allows the data to flow down to PO vouchers for seamless processing of the progress payments. |
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Projects
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View this guide to learn how to set up, manage, and track functional roles used in various areas in Costpoint. |
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Contract Management
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View this video for an overview of contract management features: opportunities, contracts, subcontracts, and organizational conflicts of interest. |
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View this guide to learn about the purpose, key fields, and options of each tab, and how contracts relate to opportunities, projects, activities, and more. |
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View this guide to learn about the four main areas of Contract Management: Opportunities, Contracts, Manage Subcontracts, and Organizational Conflict Of Interest (OCI), and the basic processes in managing contracts. |
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View this guide to learn how to manage the customer, vendor, and employee information that is integral to your contract management needs. For example, you learn how to approve prospective vendors. |
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View this guide to learn how to create opportunities, including the purpose and key fields and options of each tab. You also learn how opportunities relate to projects. |
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View this guide to learn how to set up and maintain organizational conflicts of interest (OCI) that you can track and associate with opportunities, contracts, and projects. |
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View this guide to learn how to create subcontracts. The guide highlights the purpose and key fields and options of each tab. |
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View this guide to learn about the process by which you track contacts or leads. |
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View this video to learn about Costpoint's virtual personal assistant, also known as Hey Deltek!, and how you can use it on the Manage Leads and Contacts screen. |
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View this guide to learn how to set up, manage, and track functional roles used in various areas in Costpoint. |
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Reports and Analytics
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View this video to learn how to access and use the home dashboard in the Reports and Analytics domain. This dashboard provides easy access to frequently used items such as timesheets, expense reports, leave balances, and pending tasks. |
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View this video to learn about enhancements to Costpoint dashboards. |
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Time and Expense
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Click through this presentation to learn about the new Expense Report Wizard, including an overview of the expense entry process and interface features. |
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Click through this presentation to learn about reviewing, and following up on, your outstanding expenses. |
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Support for Life and Supplemental Life Guaranteed Issue and Evidence of Insurability (EOI) |
Click through this presentation to learn about Costpoint support for life insurance, supplemental life insurance, and Evidence of Insurability (EOI). |
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View this video to learn how to use Costpoint Mobile Time and Expense to enter time by adding a charge to your timesheet, or modify a timesheet by editing a charge. |
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View this video to learn how to set up Mobile Time and Expense, including time zones, mobile hour increments, whether or not to display non-working days, and so on. |
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View this video if you are a resource manager who needs to approve and reject timesheets in Mobile Time and Expense. |
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Click through this presentation to familiarize yourself with the most common and useful voice commands for the Timesheet application. |
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View this guide to learn about offline time entry in the Web version of Costpoint Time & Expense. |
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View this video to learn about capturing data for outstanding expenses in Mobile Time and Expense. |
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View this video to learn about adding expense reports in Mobile Time and Expense. |
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View this video to learn about approving expense reports in Mobile Time and Expense. |
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View this guide to learn how to set up, manage, and track functional roles used in various areas in Costpoint. |
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Click through this presentation for an overview of the Overtime Distribution Subtask in Manage Timesheet. |
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View this video to learn about managing duplicate outstanding expenses in Mobile Time and Expense. |
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View this quick reference card to learn about the Timesheet Application. |
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Click through this presentation to learn how to configure and send interactive emails in Costpoint Time & Expense. |
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Click through this presentation to learn how to use Quick Entry Expense Report. |
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Planning
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Create Employee Requisitions in New Business Budgets Quick Steps |
Click through this presentation to learn how to create employee requisitions in New Business Budgets. |
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People
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Support for Life and Supplemental Life Guaranteed Issue and Evidence of Insurability (EOI) |
Click through this presentation to learn about Costpoint support for life insurance, supplemental life insurance, and Evidence of Insurability (EOI). |
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Administration
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View this guide to learn how to configure approval workflow components, create a workflow approval model, and then test the model. |
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View this guide to learn how to use the Costpoint Word Add-in to create templates using the Microsoft© Word Desktop Version 2013 or greater, and Office 365. |
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Costpoint Content Management Integration with SharePoint Clickguide |
Click through this presentation to learn how to set up Costpoint and Office 365 SharePoint for Content Management Integration (CMI). You use CMI to store and manage documents, images, and other content related to Costpoint records in a third-party Content Management System. This click-guide also shows you how to manage content between Costpoint and SharePoint. |
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View this guide to learn how to set up, manage, and track functional roles used in various areas in Costpoint. |
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Click through this presentation to learn about the Device Notification and SMS Message notification methods that push messages to your mobile devices and computer for actions performed in Costpoint. Also, see how to assign notification methods to specific notification types. |
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Click through this presentation to learn about Costpoint's multi-user processing functionality that lets you start a process while other jobs are running. See the progress meter that displays the job's place among other jobs in the queue, and learn how to run a job in the background. |
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Click through this presentation to learn how to prepare Costpoint data for Offline Mode. In Offline Mode, you can work in Costpoint applications without an internet connection and merge your updates when Costpoint is online. |
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Costpoint Business Intelligence
The following learning aids are specific to Costpoint Business Intelligence, which is an application designed to provide the information that you need to make effective business decisions.
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Costpoint Business Intelligence Framework Models for Report Authors Click Guide |
Click through this presentation to learn more about the Business Intelligence framework manager models and packages that support dashboards and more than 100 reports. |
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View this guide to learn how to understand, manage, and secure your BI content in Deltek's multitenancy cloud environment. |
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