This is an interesting conundrum. The solution may depend upon how often your large trucks go out to remote sites and you lose communications.  Additionally, are you trying to create invoices on the trucks while out in the field?

If the time that the trucks are not able to communicate is infrequent, I would suggest that you install and maintain FA in the home office and use the Sierra Wireless modems/routers to log into the the central office/server. In the event that you can't establish real time connections, simply write down the items that used for that particular job and enter them into the accounting system when connections can be established.  To keep the trucks info separate, you could use the "Dimensions" function to create separate locations / ie. trucks.

On the other hand if the lack of communications is very frequent you could run each truck as you suggested with its own FA system.  The problem comes down to a simple way of consolidating data. You could export / import the data from each truck into the central office server. [FA has the ability to do this so you will need to research this function.] It will require a lot more work than the scenario above.

Good Luck in finding a usable solution.

Frank

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Thanks for the reply. When I check version.php it shows as 2.14.17 leading me to believe and accept that I was successful in updating FA.

However, when I am using FA, at the bottom of the main screens, "FrontAccounting 2.4.15 - Theme: default-" is displayed suggesting that the update didn't take effect.

Frank

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I have been using FA for a couple of years now and have been very impressed with its functions and features. I wish to commend and thank the developers for their fine efforts.

As time has passed, different versions of FA have been made available. However, to me, the mechanism for upgrading has been confusing at best with comparisons of different files, install a "new" version and import data from a backup, or overwrite the old files with the new.

I have opted to simply overwrite the files from Ver 2.14.17 over the 2.14.15 files. However, I'm not sure if the update is in effect because the footer shows Ver 2.14.15 when I log into the program.

Using the following guide:   https://frontaccounting.com/wbt/pages/download/update-guide.php

I should be able to comment out "$version variable in config.php" to show the current release. However, there isn't a "version" variable in the config.php.  There is a "build_version" only.

So.... If there is a simple update process, would someone please spell it out?  [At least for relatively recent installations.]

Thanks     Frank Carll

The problem has been fixed by recursively changing ownership of the fa files

chown -R www-data:www-data

When you say say "clear"   What exactly do you mean?

I just tried it with MS Edge.  Still the same problem.

I have been using Firefox with FA for a year plus without any problems.

Thanks for the suggestion.  However, the "Date Picker" was already flagged when I checked.

I tried unflagging it and updating. That removed the calendar icon from the display. When I flagged the "Date Picker" again and updated, the calendar icon reappeared but as before, has no effect when clicked on.

Frank

After upgrading FA from ver 2.4.11 to Build 7.03.2023 to FA 2.4.15, the date/calendar appears to no longer work.

I can manually enter the date, but the dropdown calendar has stopped functioning.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Frank Carll

Changing the permission of Pdf_files from 775 to 777 solved the problem.

I appreciate your suggestion.

Frank

After upgrading FA from ver 2.4.11 to Build 7.03.2023 to FA 2.4.15 I am now receiving the following error message when trying to print a document.

TCPDF error: Unable to create output file: ../company/0/pdf_files/YgAJ_YBzcAdEUuEZLulbtQxx.pdf

Using Ubuntu 20.04.5
MariaDB 10.3.38
PHP ver 7.4.33

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,  Frank Carll

Thanks Joe.

After adding a supplier invoice to the system, you are presented with a menu that has numerous picks to proceed. This includes "Enter Another Invoice" or "Entry supplier payment for this invoice."

If you elect to pay that invoice at that time, you are subsequently presented with a new larger menu that does not include "Add another supplier invoice."

This necessitates having to go back to the main menu, pick "Purchases," then "Supplier Invoices" if you have multiple invoices to enter.

While certainly doable, it adds multiple steps to the process of entering Supplier Invoices.


This is merely a suggestion to improve some great accounting software.

Frank

Thanks so much Joe.  I just updated the file and it seems to work great.  Regards, Frank

That would be great.

When looking at "Purchases Dashboard" only past due invoices are displayed in the default theme.

It would be nice to see a list of the upcoming payable invoices at a glance to avoid being past due on those invoices.

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It would be helpful to be able to allow FA to auto increment the item code when adding new items. 

I am switching from an accounting system that auto populated the item code. 

Researching the forum showed that the issue was raised in 2017 but I cannot find any further reference.

Regards, Frank Carll

Thank you notrinos for your code correction. This appears to have solved the problem.

[note: in my system, it was line 265 of gl_journal_ui.inc not 263]

Regards,  Frank Carll

Hello again,

Based upon the "success" that advocaat.pollet had, I just installed Chrome and tried a journal entry.  Unfortunately, as with Firefox, Edge, and now Chrome, when initially tabbing from Account Code, the cursor skips Dim 1&2 and lands in the Debit field.  If I "shift/Tab" back to the account code, the cursor advances correctly.

I am using FA 2.4.11 with the default theme.

Regards,  Frank Carll

I am new to FrontAccounting and have found it to be excellent in most regards.

I have set up my accounting system using dimensions and have found while making journal entries, the cursor skips the dimension fields [both Dim 1 & Dim 2] and lands in the Debit field.  To make a selection in Dim 1, I have to mouse over to it or shift tab to get back to it. 

While certainly not the end of the world, it opens the door for dimensions not being entered.

[Note: I am using Mozilla Firebox as my browser]

I appreciate all the hard work that has obviously gone into this software and thanks to all for sharing it.

Regards,   Frank Carll

I had the same problem with a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 lts.

It was fixed by replacing the session.inc with code from notrinos.   Thanks