For some reason there is no English UTF-8 available.
We are running multiple applications on that same server and FA is th eonly one who has problems with sending out e-mails when non iso-8859-1 are used.
26 07/09/2015 08:23:28 am
Re: Bug: e-mail Subject is not UTF-8? Characters displayed incorrectly (9 replies, posted in Report Bugs here)
27 07/07/2015 06:40:56 am
Topic: Forums help.php?section=bbcode pages has errors (1 replies, posted in Report Bugs here)
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Topic: Bug: e-mail Subject is not UTF-8? Characters displayed incorrectly (9 replies, posted in Report Bugs here)
Looks like there is a problem with emails FA sends out
Characters like õ ä ö ü ž š are not display correctly and look like: �
looking at the e-mail source:
....2d3c597a
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Dear ,
Attached you will find Invoice No....BTW, your https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/help.php?section=bbcode pages has errors
29 07/05/2015 12:19:07 pm
Re: How can I define file name format for pdf invoice? (8 replies, posted in Accounts Receivable)
seahawk wrote:
When you email the invoice from FA to the client, the invoice number is displayed in the email topic as well as the attachment with the "Invoice No. IN-00604"
I save the emails if I want to quickly go back and find one, because I can search client name in the to column or I can search in topic for the invoice number.
when you email invoice a copy is send to BCC address that you have entered in the setup.
Can you point me to the right menu, where I can pull up old invoice and e-mail it to my client. I searched but I can not find it anywhere.
30 07/04/2015 08:23:45 am
Re: The GL account selected is already in use. Select another GL account. (9 replies, posted in Report Bugs here)
joe wrote:
ok, mate,
you are free to select Another ERP system that may suit you better.
/joe
Your response to a possible bug is really strange and makes me feel a bit concerned about the health and future of this project.
Honestly, this restriction makes no sense to me and this is only reason why I thought it's a bug. Nothing personal.
BTW, how many developers and testers works on this project?
31 07/04/2015 07:46:50 am
Re: How can I define file name format for pdf invoice? (8 replies, posted in Accounts Receivable)
apmuthu wrote:
Changing the invoice number is available directly in the Setup -> Forms Setup menu.
Invoice number and invoice file name are currently 2 different numbers. File name is currently a "random" hash and this is the problem for us.
What I need, is to have the invoice number present in file with some static text as, illustrated in my OP:
Invoice-[Invoice Number]-[Invoice Date].pdf
Invoice-0011-20150704.pdf
On second thought, after looking at different invoices (bills) we receive, I like the [Issuer-short_name]-[yymmdd]-[Invoice Number].pdf format even better.
Almost nobody sends out paper invoices around here (I am not kidding) and because of this, everything you receive is saved to a file system or to a database. Because of this, invoices are named so they group nicely in filesystem if stored in a catalogue and most importantly are identifiable by human without opening every single file in that catalogue to locate the correct one.
FhNjl3NXEe3b.pdf tells me or anyone else absolutely nothing. It's as meaningless as any random string.
XYZ_Printing-20150704-0115.pdf is another story.
You know its form XYZ-Printing, issued at 2015 07 04, invoice 0115.
Now, if I have 20 of those, guess what, those all group together by issuer name and line up by date in the name.
If I am searching for a invoice sent or received, I can use "XYZ 115" and I have located the correct invoice in my Inbox in a split second.
Good luck with FhNjl3NXEe3b 
32 07/03/2015 07:24:20 pm
Re: The GL account selected is already in use. Select another GL account. (9 replies, posted in Report Bugs here)
joe wrote:
Because you did some tranactions on the GL account before linking to the bank account.
Joe
So? This limitation makes absolutely no sense to me.
Only reason I want to make this link is so it shows up in some drop down menu.
BTW we do not have (and never had) so called "checking accounts" because nobody uses cheques here.
33 07/03/2015 12:16:11 pm
Re: The GL account selected is already in use. Select another GL account. (9 replies, posted in Report Bugs here)
OK, but why can't I connect my GL account 1064 to new petty "cash account" I set up (see problem 2)
34 07/03/2015 08:43:28 am
Topic: The GL account selected is already in use. Select another GL account. (9 replies, posted in Report Bugs here)
Bank Accounts > Add new account (Petty cash in our case)
1) Why is 1065 Petty Cash set to USD by default? It makes no sense why Currency is set before installation is complete and I have had a chance to set my default currency - EUR for example.
After deleting all the transaction form "Void a Transaction" menu, I still cant change 1065 Petty Cash currency to something useful so I had to deactivate it.
2) Added new GL account 1064 for petty cash, made some transactions to that account. Few days later realized, I better set up a petty cash account from Bank Accounts > Add new account.
No can do.
I selected my new GL account and I get: The GL account selected is already in use. Select another GL account.
This looks like a bug. Is there a workaround or fix?
35 07/03/2015 08:18:58 am
Re: Disable Price Before Tax Textbox (2 replies, posted in Accounts Receivable)
Why do you need to do it?
No matter what you buy or sell on this planet, it's taxed, unless it's off the books
If your tax rate is 0, it probably shows the same price before and after.
36 07/02/2015 10:32:05 am
Topic: How fo you send delivery orders to warehouse (1 replies, posted in Items and Inventory)
Our work flow is relatively simple:
1) Take an order
2) e-mail invoice
3) e-mail the order to delivery company (we use their warehouse) - I like to use FA to send this out so I do not have to manually write orders.
My question is, how can I send orders to warehouse/delivery company without product price information? Just name/code quantity and address.
Thank you.
37 07/01/2015 08:44:35 am
Re: Email Receipt to customer (9 replies, posted in FA Modifications)
+1
and please consider https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=5815 as a feature request.
Sending out files with random names is not good for anyone.
38 07/01/2015 08:41:25 am
Re: FA for Hotel and Accommondation Industr (2 replies, posted in FA Modifications)
mugeoo wrote:
1. Customer room bookings (add rooms and Booking form)
2. Food ordering (Kitchen orders, bar orders, bbq orders etc)
Those are very specific tools and not related to accounting as simple Items bought/sold are.
You are probably better or finding a way how to make those systems talk to accouning software.
In really simple terms, when booking/order is complete and ready for invoicing, data is sent to accounting back end for generating invoice and so on. Simple SOA, if you may.
I am not aware frontaccounting has a service "listening" for external input from other applications.
Many of our suppliers are sending out invoices as a specially formatted XML files. I can bulk import those to bank and skip manual entry for payment details. All I need to do is confirm the transfers and I am done.
I wish I could get this data in to frontaccounting but I am not a programmer.
39 06/30/2015 12:56:43 pm
Re: How can I define file name format for pdf invoice? (8 replies, posted in Accounts Receivable)
apmuthu wrote:
File names for PDFs generated are based on microtime appended to some random hex number for uniqueness so that you do not trip over cached ones. Rename them as you will after download.
This screws up our workflow. There has to be better way to do it (automated)
While we are at it, I also need to change the invoice number but I think there was a hack for this by editing directly the db.
40 06/30/2015 06:18:28 am
Re: How can I define file name format for pdf invoice? (8 replies, posted in Accounts Receivable)
Anyone? We really need to get this sorted out.
Thank you.
41 06/30/2015 06:11:06 am
Re: Problem with editing customer contacts (15 replies, posted in Report Bugs here)
joe wrote:
This bug was first detected after the release of 2.3.24.
Please use the link 5 posts earlier and replace your download, /includes/ui/ui_controls.inc, in your setup.
Joe
I did that.
You got about 30-50 download per day? Why not release 2.3.24.1 and save hundreds of people hundreds of hours?
42 06/29/2015 07:52:22 pm
Re: No VAT on Invoices (4 replies, posted in Accounts Receivable)
Yes, I am an idiot. For some reason, I had clicked /taxes/item_tax_types.php? VAT and made it "Is exempt" from VAT.
Damn... 2 hour of my life wasted on something as idiotic as this. 
43 06/29/2015 07:41:08 pm
Topic: No VAT on Invoices (4 replies, posted in Accounts Receivable)
I have set up all the tax accounts as and I know I had it working yesterday and now, I can not see VAT in any of the invoices.
I have wasted about 2 hours like a idiot, but I can figure out what has happened.
All the prices we use are before tax and VAT must be added and visible on the invoice.
Items have proper Tax selected.
I can see Price before Tax on invoice but no VAT is calculated
44 06/29/2015 05:41:33 pm
Re: Import Transactions (154 replies, posted in Modules Add-on's)
I must be missing something here
You mention bank statement import and have a template available but there is no bank statement import available in "Import Type" dropdown
I see:
<option value='0'>General Journal Processing</option>
<option value='2'>Deposit Processing</option>
<option value='1'>Payment Processing</option>
<option value='30'>Sales Order Processing</option>
<option value='10'>Direct Sales Invoice Processing </option>None of those options work with my csv based on your template
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rossaddison/import_transactions/master/templates/bank_en_GB.csv
45 06/29/2015 04:29:12 pm
Re: Problem with editing customer contacts (15 replies, posted in Report Bugs here)
I downloaded the latest version (few days back) and this bug is still there.
https:/sourceforge.net/projects/frontaccounting/files/latest/download
frontaccounting-2.3.24.tar.gz
46 06/28/2015 04:39:40 pm
Topic: How can I define file name format for pdf invoice? (8 replies, posted in Accounts Receivable)
We are almost ready for live use but I can not find any settings for defining how Invoice pdf' files are named.
What we like to see (and our customers are used to) is that invoice file name looks at like this:
Invoice-[Invoice Number]-[Invoice Date].pdf
Date format is dd.mm.yyyy
(we never send out paper invoices, so this is important)
Thank you