Well folks, it’s happened again – another end-of-the-month HotFix. Deltek released the much anticipated Cobra 5.1 HotFix 12, build 5.01.436 on 4-3-12. Pass me the beta blocker’s will ya? This is way too much excitement for someone of my age. So, if you haven’t done so already, login to the Customer Care Connect site and download this latest version.
HotFix 12 is the biggest so far in terms of items addressed and functional improvements. In the past, Deltek usually tackle around a dozen or so fixes per month, but in HotFix12 I counted 24 different improvements and fixes in the DeltekCobra51HotFix12ReadMe.pdf file.
To give you a summary, here’s the main areas of improvement.
Data Conversion: The first four fixes are concerned with improvements to the process of migrating Cobra 4.7 projects to the 5.1 schema. Evidently there were some issues when you attempted this with very large 4.7 databases or those that contain a large number of notes.
Integration Wizard: More fixes and improvements here including an update to the list of items where you’re loading data from. You can now see a ‘Microsoft Project 2007/2010 XML’ option, that replaces the former Microsoft Project/Project Server 2007 option.
Reporting Wizard: Deltek have sped up the time it takes to display the next dialog after the next button has been clicked.
Resource File: This is a good one: when you renamed a resource, you lost all the notes, calculations and apportionment information from the original resource. This is now fixed – we tested it. Yeah, that used to drive folks bonkers because you might as well have just created a new resource and delete the old one rather than use the rename feature.
Well that’s just a few highlights for this Deltek Cobra HotFix as taken from the DeltekCobra51HotFix12ReadMe.pdf file.
Happy downloading folks.
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