Thanks! It took longer to develop than I liked, but we got there. It was a great learning experience. Hopefully more to come.

We developed a significant extension to beef-up FrontAccounting's password security features. It can be found here:

https://github.com/genebarker/fa_password

Unfortunately, this extension is for an earlier version of FA 2.3. We hope to migrate it when we make the jump to 2.4.

Many thanks to garrapato for his tutorials and previous extension developers.

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Still (3) easy steps and now supports FA 2.4!

genebarker/frontaccounting

Improvements

  • upgraded FA to 2.4.3 (default)

  • upgraded OS to Debian 8.10

  • updated Quick Start and notes to use MySQL 5.6

  • updated to support both 2.4 and 2.3 releases

Can't shift up to Debian 9 yet due to PHP 7 issues with earlier releases. Can't use 5.7+ MySQL yet due to some legacy date format issues.

My customer really needed this feature to speed-up reconciliation of foreign currency accounts / transactions. It's a big time saver already. You'll find it in the fixes branch of my FrontAccounting repo. There are two commits that describe:

1. Add currency filter control to GL Acc Tran report
2. Enable currency filter use

The enhanced queries took a long time to develop and get right. Have a look.

After this report proves itself in production a bit longer, I'll clean-up and try to add it to the new release branch via pull request (?) to contribute back.

Excellent. My client will be very happy. Thank you.

Nice. I like it. I'll show our accounting team and see what they think and follow-up. Better them than a coder like me. smile

Our client needed this function desperately... so we migrated it into the current 2.3.25 release. You can find it in the fixes branch of our fork of the FA repository on github: genebarker/FA.

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OK, circled back to this. Now using an updated screenshot with FA 2.3.25 :-)

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Hi everyone. We have a great new docker image for FrontAccounting. See the Quick Start section and spin-up your own FA system in just (3) easy steps!

genebarker/frontaccounting

Improvements

  • upgraded FA to 2.3.25 (default)

  • upgraded OS to Debian 8.5

  • added option to use regular HTTPS

  • added --tag option to select FA release

  • added --branch option to select desired FA branch

  • added --overwrite option to overwrite mounted version

  • improved help and the readme

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Spent a good deal of time developing a nice FrontAccounting (FA) Docker container (genebarker/frontaccounting) that I can reuse for clients, testing, etc.. Now you can install FA in (3) simple steps - see Quick Start in the description.

This container supports running FA as a simple HTTP app or a secure HTTPS app. For the HTTPS option, FA runs using HTTPS Strict Transport Security (HSTS) and sports a green lock icon on Google Chrome with the encrypted with modern cryptography message. Note that if you're using a self-signed cert, you must add it to the user's `Trusted Root Certification Authorities`.

Enjoy!

Notes:
- see this recipe for creating 'Chrome friendly' self-signed cert's (here)
- updated link to reflect new repository name

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Our client is using 2.3.24 now and needs the upcoming monthly close feature in 2.4.x. Below is our migration plan. Is it sensible? Any recommendations to make it better?

- financial year is 1 Jul 2014 - 30 Jun 2015
- client will continue to use their manual system to finish this year
- we're re-entering past transactions into FA, so not having a monthly close feature is not hurting us
- we use FA in parallel with old system for new transactions
- we update FA to 2.4 when available
- we use this time to skill-up the team on FA, do a nice yearly close, and move into the next year clean
- FA 2.4.x becomes official system of record for this next financial year (1 Jul 2015 - 30 Jun 2016)

Note: The entry of past transactions and parallel operation is something the client feels strongly about to give them confidence that FA can handle their workload... which looks great so far.

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We are using FA 2.3.24 and are happy with it. Just used a screenshot from an online demo since ours had the client's name on it.

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After a long search and multiple trials, we selected FrontAccounting for a government agency here. We had to write a solution fit statement, explaining our choice. I posted it here. Hope some find it helpful.

Why FrontAccounting?