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Thanks Joe,

I tested this on the 2.3 ver of the test site.  I changed the due date and then tried the del. It didn't work earlier this morning.  After I read your post I logged back in and tried again, checking to be sure the 0 stuck.  It worked fine.  I am wondering if that changed filed only gets read when logging in. 

What I did was try it on local box saw the 1 in the setup, changed to 0 and tried again. Was still adding day, went to test server as said above.  After it worked on test server, tried my local again and it works.  That is why I was wondering if just read file on log in as that was the only thing I did.

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Thanks, Joe, Janusz

Joe:  I will try that over the next few days to see how it works.

Janusz:  We do mostly B2B.  I would guess about 90% of our quotes are to businesses and the large orders are almost done on quotes usually with some special details from deliver to how the items are packed or who does the forewarding.

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Creating a dummy company doesn't help, does it?  How do I send the quote to the person who wants the quote?  Am I the only person who needs to send out quotes to get business?  I sure prefer not to put lots of companies into debtor_master who are not customers and may never be.

Joe:

Thanks for attaching the file to your reply.  It makes it so easy to up FA, about 2 mins to a fix.  Better that going to repository.

ed10

If I uncheck edit desc, then I won't be able to edit the desc?

Thanks, Joe

Am I right on the part about where the invoice, sales order, delivery descriptions come from?

What is description in stock_master used for?

How might long_description be used, where is it displayed?

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joe, itronics:

Thanks, that helps me understand what is going on.  I guess it is the same action with all pdf reports?
My Download folder is where browser saves downloaded files.  Is it possible to have reports printed to the screen rather than sent to pdf file or a printer?

Thanks,
ed10

apmuthu, the wiki will be helpful for folks, thanks.
joe:  Why is the permission of  pdf_files directory 777?  I wonder how it is that the pdf gets written to my ~/Download directory?  I see that the last couple of SO's I have printed are also in the pdr_files directory.  Over the last couple of weeks I have printed at least 25 (I am testing the zen_import) and there are only the 2 that I did today.

The search in Items and inventory has the same situtation.  Probably others as well. I have not looked but can they all be fixed in the same manner?  It would also be nice if the search results for customer included the debtor_no.  Wondering if instead of the query populating a dropdown, maybe it could open a new small window similiar to F2 key, then select from that window.  Give the advantage to show more fields and even being able to sort on a column.  I do this on some searches on my website.  Idea is make it very easy to find the info you need when an unhappy customer is on the phone waiting for you to come up with info about his account and anything to speed up the entry of data into database.

On Mantis, I can guess what is happening on Mantis, too long to discuss in forum.
I appreciate you looking into it.

Again thanks for the quick answers and concern to improve FA

Joe:

The short name field was there when we orginally started this thread.
The problems are the same now as a year ago.
I think the search needs to be expanded to include at the least phone number, email address(isn't it unique), and zipcode.

What would really be great would be a function key that can be hit that pops up the search fields.

BTW, what function keys are used in FA?  I could find no listing of them.

Thanks for continuing to improve FA.  Better than it was a year ago.

ed10

Hmmm, decided to turn off the search, update, then turn it back on, update again.  Search works now.