The Blog Site For All Things Deltek Vision And Programming In General

Over the next year or so I will share a couple of techniques around customizing Deltek Vision and other, unrelated programming stuff.

Upcoming Topics

This site has been created as a feedback on many requests on how to do the following things in Vision:

• How to create custom reports
• How to create custom invoices
• How to work with the Vision API
• How to use stored procedures in workflows
• How to use custom dlls in workflows
• How to use web service calls in workflows
• How to write validation web services for timesheet and expenses

I will try to release a detailed blog article on each and every topic (plus topics from subscriber suggestions) including some source code with that article.

Site Specifics

Some of the more detailed Articles will be subscription based so if you want to have access to some of the more in-depth articles and their source code please subscribe to this site

I am considering moving to a sponsored model where I will offer all content for free if I can find enough sponsors to pay for the upkeep of the site. If you’re interested in sponsoring this site or specific articles please contact me here

• Meet me at Deltek Insight 2017 (8/18/2017) - If you’re interested in some very technical presentations on the Deltek Vision API and custom reporting for Vision then join us at this year’s Deltek Insight in Nashville from October 23 to 26. I will be presenting the following topics: VI-67: Best Practices for Building a Bridge to Unlock the Power of Vision APIs This …

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• A New Online Tool To Get Started With Vision API (3/17/2017) - Over the years I found that people always had a hard time getting started with Deltek Vision’s API. I do admit, it probably has a lot to do with the message structures the API is expecting. To jump-start your development I just created an online Test Bench that allows you to connect to your service, …

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• Deltek Vision: Tracking Your Company Vehicle Costs With Units (1/4/2017) - Does your company track company vehicle cost? Did you ever wonder if you charge enough for their usage back to the client? One way of doing this is using some of the advanced features in the Units Info Center. In the unit definition there is a field called Credit Account. If you put a valid …

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• Deltek Vision: Things You Cannot Do With Workflows (1/1/2017) - User initiated work flows are the back bone of Vision’s extensibility. You are able to react on every insert, update or delete for any info center record and create your own validations, field calculations or messages for the event. You can even call your own code functions, web services and stored procedures. But there’s on …

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• Deltek Vision: Project Structures Vs. Organizational Structures (12/28/2016) - The longest and hardest fought over sessions in a Vision implementation are always project numbering and project structures. While project numbering is usually defined by a legacy application or legacy filing system (and it’s less of an issue as most people think) I came across some misconceptions on Vision’s Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and how …

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• Deltek Vision: Custom Reporting (12/25/2016) - Did your finance department ever approach you to create them that one specific report that’s missing? Did you ever wonder if you could write a report that would take advantage of Deltek Vision’s ® reporting capabilities and allow you to create selections, set up your own grouping, show and hide columns and create your own …

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