Cobra 8.7 Help System
Welcome to the Deltek Cobra Help System.
The Deltek Cobra Help System provides help for all areas of the Cobra application.
- To access all available Cobra 8.7 documentation, go to the Deltek Learning Hub.
- To view the collection of videos that will help you work with Cobra, see Cobra Videos.
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Use Cobra videos to assist you as you work with Cobra.
Cobra is a powerful system for managing project costs, measuring earned value, and analyzing budgets, actuals, and forecasts.
A project is a collection of projects usually corresponding to a contract. A project in generic terms is a set of activities directed to an overall goal.
Spreading budgets, summarizing costs, and reporting depend on calendars to determine the dates and time spans of the summarized costs.
You can showcase project data at a summary level, a detailed level, or any level within the project by establishing a coding system and assigning codes to your project. A well-designed coding system offers lucid and succinct information.
Cobra uses rate sets to store multipliers that are used in generating derived costs.
Cobra project costs are entered as resource assignments. Resources are a combination of labor, material, and other direct costs associated with a project.
Use the Reports feature of Cobra to generate reports that meet your firm's specific needs.
Use the batch reports feature to generate a number of reports for a project or ancillary data, as a group.
Use processes such as advancing the calendar, calculating earned value, and respreading budgeted costs to maintain and analyze your project data.
The Integration tab contains commands for importing to and exporting from Cobra.
Cobra provides a number of tools related to project-wide functions.
System administrators can use Cobra security features to grant or restrict users' access to data and processes.
A data source is a named connection to a database. Before you can build a connection to a database, you must first have a database to which you connect.
Developer resources are available for different Cobra versions. Use the links below to access the documentation system for each version.
Cobra Features for PM Compass Users
This section contains Cobra features available for PM Compass users.
Learn about the Cobra processes and how to troubleshoot their related errors.
This section provides information on additional Cobra features and usage.
The Cobra Data Dictionary provides information about all available data tables, columns, and indexes in the Cobra database. You can view the data dictionary from within the Cobra Help system. You do not need to save it to your workstation.