This one had me on the ropes for a while. I couldn’t find where one is supposed to go to add a new ‘Result’ in the Deltek Cobra 5 system. In Deltek Cobra 4.7, one simply dialed into the System | Configure | Fields… menu structure and you could add results in the Configuration dialog. In Deltek Cobra 5 however, I needed to add a result to the system named INDIRECT, but couldn’t find anything under the menus that replaced the old ‘Fields’ menu.
And as good as the Deltek Cobra help is, I couldn’t find this one using searches for Result, Add Result or a few others I tried. It may have been in the list somewhere, there were just too many headings to wade through to find it. Anyway, in the end, good old trial and error got me to the following solution; it turns out that one needs to use the Data Tool program, a separate piece of software found under the Cobra 5 Administrator’s menu. Login to this and the steps to add your new Result are as follows:
1. Open the Cobra Data Tool in the Start | All Programs | Deltek | Cobra 5.0 | Administration | Data Tool menu.
2. In the Data Tool Login dialog, enter the sysadmin password (if it’s still at default it’s ‘password’).
3. In the Data Sources dialog click Next>.
4. In the Options dialog, click Define Results.
5. Click Next>.
6. In the Define Results dialog, click the Add button.
7. In the Add Results dialog, enter the desired name for your result. In this example I’m adding a result called INDIRECT to the list.
8. Click the OK button.
9. When you’re done, close out the Data Tool program.
Next time you go into the resource file’s Results dialog, you will find your new result listed with the other standard system results.
Hope that was helpful – happy ‘resulting’ folks.