1 Reply by seahawk

(1 replies, posted in Setup)

We operate two divisions, Loans and Steel, within a single company database.

Customers are assigned to Sales Groups on the Customer Branch record since the Create New Customer does not have that field. So you have to edit the customer branch and add the sales group to that branch.

We expected to be able to filter or summarise debtor reports (Customer Balances, Aged Debtor Analysis, Customer Listing, etc.) by Sales Group but cannot find any standard report making use of this field in FA 2.4.19.

Is there existing functionality we have missed, or is Sales Group currently not utilised by the standard report set?

I would appreciate any assistance since I have first asked the question in January 2025.

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2 Topic by seahawk

(0 replies, posted in Accounts Receivable)

I have a manufacturing client using the manufacturing module. They want to know if there is a way that they can display an extra line Note for each item, that will contain the details of manufacturing specifications?

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3 Topic by seahawk

(0 replies, posted in Reporting)

https://github.com/apmuthu/FA24extensions/blob/master/Extensions/mail/class.mail.inc#L119

There is an error in line 119. The current line reads as follow:

$this->phpmailer->addAttachment($file);

This means that when you send an invoice you get an invoice number 4HvxRnbc6Ja138vRa_WRcQxx.pdf

When I change it to the Following: $this->phpmailer->addAttachment($file, $filename);

I get the correct Invoice number on the attachment InvoiceIN001809.pdf

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4 Topic by seahawk

(0 replies, posted in Report Bugs here)

Good day Team

When doing a Report/Customer Reports, Customer Balances, and you set the dtae range for the report for example 01/03/2024 to 28/02/2025 and ask for details on the customer balances, it will include allocations made after the 28/02/2025. This creates a huge discrepancy with the aged analysis report and the Debtors Ledger for the same period.

This renders the Customer Balances useless for any period.

Please advise how we can fix this since the CA's want such a report for each customer over the financial year.

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5 Reply by seahawk

(10 replies, posted in Setup)

Got it to work.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/all/suddenly-unable-to-login-to-specific-websites/b7fb9f4c-4480-4612-9604-786ecc15bfe7

Just reset all the settings, restart edge and now it is fine.

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6 Reply by seahawk

(10 replies, posted in Setup)

When looking in the DevTools in Chrome I get the following warnings and Errors.

'head[profile]' is not supported by Chrome, Chrome Android, Edge 79+, Firefox 4+, Safari 16.4+. (Warning)

<head profile="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/profile">
sales/sales_order_entry.php?NewInvoice=0

A 'viewport' meta element was not specified. (This shows as an error)
<iframe id="CCIframe" src="javascript:false;" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

One or more documents in this page is in Quirks Mode, which will render the affected document(s) with quirks incompatible with the current HTML and CSS specifications. (Warning)
Quirks Mode exists mostly due to historical reasons. If this is not intentional, you can add or modify the DOCTYPE to be `<!DOCTYPE html>` to render the page in No Quirks Mode.

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7 Reply by seahawk

(10 replies, posted in Setup)

And then it was back, when I select any drop down on the Direct Invoice. Switch off all the extensions, and stil get the issue when selecting a drop down.

The search will continue.

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8 Reply by seahawk

(10 replies, posted in Setup)

Looks like it was Grammarly's AI Assistant. When switched off the error disappeared in accordance with your reference above.

Thanks for the input.

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9 Reply by seahawk

(1 replies, posted in Items and Inventory)

Fix it in the order that you have used for the template.

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10 Reply by seahawk

(10 replies, posted in Setup)

When I use devtools in Edge get the following message: Unchecked runtime.lastError: The message port closed before a response was received. customer_inquiry.php:1

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11 Reply by seahawk

(10 replies, posted in Setup)

Tested it on Firefox and Chrome, and do not get the same issue, only on Edge. Trying to see what the issue is with Edge giving this issue?

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12 Reply by seahawk

(10 replies, posted in Setup)

apmuthu wrote:

FA has some fixes for PHP 8 and deployment notes from users on PHP 8.3 would be welcome.

I get the following with 2.4.18 on both PHP 8.2 and 8.3. 2.4.17 does not give me this lot of information on the top of the new Direct Invoice:

overall type: UNKNOWN_TYPE html type: HTML_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED server type: SERVER_RESPONSE_PENDING heuristic type: UNKNOWN_TYPE label: Customer: parseable name: customer_id section: customer_id_0_580 field signature: 4129239426 form signature: 9052072430472725357 form signature in host form: 9052072430472725357 alternative form signature: 9362437881849032101 form name: form id: form button titles: Add Item,Update,Place Invoice,Cancel Invoice field frame token: 3B6143B082BD1617F1F5DA667AE93353 form renderer id: 579 field renderer id: 580 visible: true focusable: true field rank: 0 field rank in signature group: 0 field rank in host form: 0 field rank in host form signature group: 0 field signature string: customer_id&select-one form signature string: form order: RegularForm0 field order: 0 form signatureV2: -4800606880226478312 field signatureV2: 7345264109609124934 domain signature: -3380465736882911453 c id: server metadata: 0 edge autofill field info: popup_dismissed: 0, not_meaningfulname: 0, config_autofillcore: 1, config_password: 1, config_excellike: 1, config_levo: 1, crowdsource_autofillcore: 1, crowdsource_password: 1, client_repeatable: 1 crowd decisions: crowd_decision_0:0, crowd_decision_1:0, crowd_decision_2:0, crowd_decision_3:0 labelling version: 0 autocomplete: off

I have no idea what this means.

Setting debug = 0 in config, makes no difference.

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13 Reply by seahawk

(3 replies, posted in Banking and General Ledger)

In the Profit and Loss report under General Ledger.

It is normally sorted according to the account number instead of the account name. Account name order in the Expenses just makes it easier to find information to complete the company's Tax return.

It is still grouped by the Classes/Groups/Account, depending on your setup.

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14 Topic by seahawk

(3 replies, posted in Banking and General Ledger)

Is there a way that one can sort the Expense Accounts Alphabetically instead of Account Numbers?

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15 Topic by seahawk

(1 replies, posted in Report Bugs here)

This is an issue again on all installations with FA 2.4.18, 2.4.17 and PHP 8.3 and 8.2.

The settings on the Setup: System and General GL Setup under suppliers and Purchasing defaults for GRN Clearing Account is set to: No Posting on GRN.

When I want to change the legal text on the invoice, it gives this error and refuses to save the information.

I have checked the Cpanel PHPMyAdmin under sys-prefs, and the grn_clearing_act is blank. Should I enter" as suggested or 0?

I tried blank, same problem, I entered " same problem. When I entered 0, it saved the information. When I wanted to change something else, the problem came back, and I again made it blank, saved it, and then changed it back to 0, and it saved the new information.

So there is clearly something wrong.

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16 Topic by seahawk

(1 replies, posted in Setup)

When creating a new client, the New Customer form does not have a space to allocate the Sales Group under the branch section. You have to create the Customer and then edit the beach to assign a sales group after the fact.

The clients have two distinct groups of clients, Steel works and Loans.

Is it possible to add the Sales Group to the New Customer Creation form?

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17 Topic by seahawk

(10 replies, posted in Setup)

I have a number of Joomla and Moodle sites and I need to upgrade my PHP from 8.2 to 8.3 for the new versions of Moodle and Joomla.

Will Front accounting still function?

I have upgraded on site's PHP and will check if I get any issue in FA and report here.

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18 Reply by seahawk

(40 replies, posted in Reporting)

Was there any final decision about the mail() versus PHPmailer for the future?

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19 Reply by seahawk

(16 replies, posted in Report Bugs here)

trafficpest wrote:

So its working out now? It is a pretty old plugin, and looks like php has changed to be quite a bit more strict recently.
downgrade php or upgrade FA are best bets

I cannot downgrade on PHP since I am running Joomla sites where I need the higher PHP. @Joe solutions above worked, but when I upgraded to 2.4.18 the errors above reappeared, so I just used my replacement files and then we were up and running again.

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20 Reply by seahawk

(40 replies, posted in Reporting)

seahawk wrote:
trafficpest wrote:

I tested it and it works in my install (though it worked for me prior to the fix)
I have created a mail branch in my extensions repo again with the fix.


https://github.com/trafficpest/FA24ex … tree/mail


@apmuthu I didn't forget to hash the files for init this time if you want to pull such a trivial fix. lol


Cannot download the file.

The line 131 error on PHP 8.2 has now gone away but it has two new errors:


Undefined array key 1 in file: /home/mysite/public_html/accounts/reporting/includes/class.mail.inc at line 88

trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in file: /home/mysite/public_html/accounts/modules/mail/includes/PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php at line 873

Seems to be quite a challenge.


After I updated the following bugs reported in this feed, https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=10451
the errors disappeared.

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21 Reply by seahawk

(16 replies, posted in Report Bugs here)

Were these changes implemented in 2.4.18, since after the update I had to make the changes again on the same files since the errors reappeared?

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22 Reply by seahawk

(40 replies, posted in Reporting)

seahawk wrote:

@trafficpest I am getting the following error on only one site with the same setup as three other sites with the SMTP class.mail replacement file:

TAX INVOICE IN003/2024. Sending document by email failed. Email: (it is a working email address, and the SMTP setup was checked and rechecked, but no luck in sending the invoice.)

Not sure which other file might have an impact on the sending.

I have updated FA to 2.4.18.

It is a simular issue that happened in 2013 and 2016 by searching the phrase "Sending document by email called."


This issue on another installation is still there despite the updates.

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23 Reply by seahawk

(40 replies, posted in Reporting)

trafficpest wrote:

I tested it and it works in my install (though it worked for me prior to the fix)
I have created a mail branch in my extensions repo again with the fix.


https://github.com/trafficpest/FA24ex … tree/mail


@apmuthu I didn't forget to hash the files for init this time if you want to pull such a trivial fix. lol


Cannot download the file.

The line 131 error on PHP 8.2 has now gone away but it has two new errors:


Undefined array key 1 in file: /home/mysite/public_html/accounts/reporting/includes/class.mail.inc at line 88

trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in file: /home/mysite/public_html/accounts/modules/mail/includes/PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php at line 873

Seems to be quite a challenge.

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24 Reply by seahawk

(40 replies, posted in Reporting)

@trafficpest I am getting the following error on only one site with the same setup as three other sites with the SMTP class.mail replacement file:

TAX INVOICE IN003/2024. Sending document by email failed. Email: (it is a working email address, and the SMTP setup was checked and rechecked, but no luck in sending the invoice.)

Not sure which other file might have an impact on the sending.

I have updated FA to 2.4.18.

It is a simular issue that happened in 2013 and 2016 by searching the phrase "Sending document by email called."

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25 Reply by seahawk

(40 replies, posted in Reporting)

The strange this is despite the error, it is still sending the email as well as the Bcc emails via the smtp.

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