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I agree with Janusz about it being better to have th eproduct code ressemble the item iteself.
That being said, I find that MANY (more than half) companies that I deal with, big and small, seem to use autogenerated codes for the products.
This could be a useful tool for new companies. I do nto see it of any use for companies that are established. But then again, if they are established, and they need to add items, yes, it coudl be useful.
Joe
Hello,
I have been part of the discussions for seeing if we can get the multilingual concept integrated into the FA software.
It was not really being able to log in and use FA, but more the outputs (Invocie, sales order, etc...).
Also, this would include the descriptions of the products to corespond with the customers language choice as well.
The forms themselves are being implemented with the release of v2.3.
I am interested in helping to pay for the adding of language choice to the descriptions.
However, depending on the cost, I might not be abel to pay for the whole work.
Are there any other peple or companies looking to accelerate this part of the development who woudl be willing to contribute to the development of thiese features?
Joe
I'm not sure if the same comments should go into the pdf document just emailed and into the email content. I guess there is also some other fixes needed here.
As emailing documents is not so often used feature (at least not by me or Joe), we have not touched it waiting for somebody else who can fixit and test the changes thoroughly.Janusz
Just my 2 cents worth:
I e-mail all invoices to clients (OK, a couple of exceptions). This is very useful to us.
I can also see being able to send the packing slip, as that is how I always send information to the warehouse (our warehouse and office are in seperate locations).
I would also see sending sales orders to clients by e-mail so that they can confirm the order.
Yes, a good e-mail feature for mailing documents would be VERY useful for us.
Joe
I can confirm that installing a company with latest release (2.2.7) works. I even had it installed at a subdomain (FA.DOMAIN.COM)
Joe
I live in Quebec.
They seem to have a slightly different system than other places.
You buy an item for
$100
You get charge 5% federal sales taxes ($5)
$105 is the total after the first tax.
Then, you add the provincial tax (7.5%) ($7.88)
$112.88
The second tax taxes the initial sum, and also taxes the first sales tax.
My questions:
How can I set this up in FA?
Thanks
Joe
I found the mailing address area in the branch area in FA.
At this point, I have no clients with a branch. So, if I understand correctly, I can type th e"branch" hours in the "Mailing Address" area in the Branch data section.
If I type somethgin in this area, will the address from the customer section still show up? In othger words, will both the client address and the delivery instructions that you explained ot me how to add, show up on the packing slip/delivery slip?
I ask because not knowing exactly how FA works, I thought that maybe being that I am adding text to the Branch address, that it might print the text from the Brancg Mailing Address, instead of the main client address.
Thanks
Joe
This could be a simple substitute.
Is this extra line already in the code, or would it have to be added?
Thanks
Joe
No, I am not looking for the romalpa clause.
Each client has different hours that they open, and some are closed over lunch hours. Example:
client #1
open from monday-friday, 10AM-6PM
client #2
Open from 8AM-5PM - closed each day 12PM-1PM for lunch
client #3
open from tuesday-friday, 10AM-6PM
This good for both the delivery people, and the paking people., so they do nto prepare anorderand ship it out on a day that the client is closed.
This would be in the client information, as this is client specific. I thought that I saw a way to do this already in FA, but it is a manual way, that you have to enter each and everytime the order is made.
My thoughts are if the feature is already there (joe mentioned that this can be added inthe memo part of the document, look #2 message in this thread, it is already there), then we can just make it automated, if we want.
Thanks
Joe
I am not a programmer, but when discussing this idea with other people in the programming community, one thing that would have to be added would be a language option.
Each "description could be saved in seperate table, or column in a table. Depending on which language the customer is, the corresponding table/clumn(do not know database lingo) would be shosen. I do not see having to add a whole new convention, more like adding a a language bit, and depnding on which language, is chosen, the database would send out the corresponding daata.
In my case, I only for see using 2 languages.
In my mind, the language of the report and the language of the desciption would use the same language "bit".
When you say French, then the database would send out the "french" report interface and the "french" description.
I also want to say that I can also see this happening in two steps.
1) give the option of the report language.
2) giving the option of language choice of the desciptions.
As for working with the programming team, how would this work? I woudl get an outside programmer to do work for me, but it makes no sense if they do not work with you, so that we have 1 solution, and not 2 partial solutions.
Thanks
Joe
ps. As for your developers list, where to I find it?
I read over what you said.
You say that the idea that I am putting forth is too specific to my business. Is this your opinion, fact or maybe due to no one specifically asking for it, it does not seem like a useful feature.
Any company that ships goods would be able to use this feature. I agree that when productis shipped by pallet, this would not apply, but any company that delivers goods via a courrier company to a client, this would be a useful feature. Many businesses have hours where they can not receive goods and this would be a simple way to allow shippers the flexibility to avoid early morning shipments, or lunch hour shipments.
Anyway, this is my opinion. I would like to hear other peoples opnions before I go ahead and get this worked on.
The other inconvenience of somethign not being in the main core, is that when FA is uploaded, the module could become unusable, or not work correctly, and woudl have to be twaeked for each upgrade.
I look forward to other peoples ideas.
Joe
I am planning on working on this langauge thing for my company, but would be interested if others are interested in helping program, or help pay for the code?
This seems to be a big change, but a very useful change, so please let me knwo the best way to proceed.
Joe (the other one) 
I have a couple of major modifications (I thnk major, maybe not so) tha I need to implement, but they seem to be major.
I want to be abel to add th eshoice of language for the client, so that all paperwork, and product description will come out in the language of choice.
I want this to be incorporated into the main truck of FA so that everyone wll be abel to use it, and also so that I do not have a orphan project that I will have to retweak each time a new versino of FA comes out.
First of all, is this a project that the FA team would inporporate?
Second, who can I work with to make sure that the format is good so that the FA team will nto have to totally rework/retweak the code?
Thanks
Joe
Thanks for the feedback.
Part of the reason hat I want to share my improvements with the FA community is yes, to share the feature that has not been implemented yet, but also to find a way to avoid to have to reinstall this special code each time I upgrade.
The ideas that I am looking to have programmed are ideas that I have mentioned on the forums, and each time they say that they can be custom programmed.
IF they will not be incorporated, how do I knwo what format to put them in so that they will be available for others?
Will you just put the code on the download area?
Does it have to be in "module" format?
Will you guys repackage it into "module" format?
Thanks
I will be having a few features integrated into FA and I woudl like to know how to get the incorporated into the main FA software for everyone to use?
I want to share them with the FA community.
Thanks for letting me know.
Joe
Thansk fo rth erun down. This really helped in gettign my new company set up. It worked::)
But, you mention the following file:
en_US-new.sql
I was able to get this from my sysadmin to make the install. But, where are the others that I might be able to use? YOu mention they ar eon the FA site. Can you tell me where?
Thanks
JOe
Hello,
when I was looking over FA as a possibile ERP that I coudl use, I recall seeing a few modules tyhat can be used. But, since then, have not been able to find them on the FA site.
Can someone point out where they are?
Thanks
Joe
I was looking over the training Co.
It turns out that this is mainly for practice.
I need to install a new company. So, any help with the above mentioned questions would be much appreciated:)
Thanks
Joe
I was able to find the page abou tthe information on the comapny, but even after I changed it, the old name still appears on the drop down menu on the lof in page.
Next:
I found the page to create a new company. YEAH!!
But, it asks for the following info:
Company
Host
Database User
Database Password
Database Name
Table Pref (none or 1)
Default (no or yes)
Database Script
New script Admin Password
What is written in each one?
Company: I can add my own company name I guess
Host: ???
Database user: I am assuming the database user name for MySQL
Database password: password for above named user
Database name: Name for new comapnies password
Table Pref: do not know
Default: I am thinking that on the log in page, this woudl be the default company
Database script: do not know
New Script admin password: I am guessing that it has to do with the database cript
Can someone explain this to me? I will call my sysadmin, but I want to do as much as I can, or at least understand it.
Thanks
Joe
Hello
I found out how to change the name of the cmpany in the drop down menu on the log in page.
Now, the next step, is how to create a second company with the same install.
Thanks for your help!
Joe
Hello,
I am wondering how to do two things:
1) The name on my company is "Training Co.". How can I change this to what I want?
2a) Is it possible to have two companies accounting on the same FA install? There is a drop down menu to choose a company, so I woudl guess that it is possible.
2b) If so, how is this done? Is there a FAQ or explination somewhere on how to do it?
Thanks
Joe
I am in the same position. I am in MOntreal, Canada. Half of my customers are French, and half are English.
I woudl be interested in knowing details on the advancement of this part. Like I mentioned elsewhere, instead of tying language to currency, it should be tied to customer.
In MOntreal, and all over canada, we use the canadian dollar. But, while we all use the same money, the whole province of Quebec (part of Canada), they speak French. The tied to currency option would not work for me.
I woudl be willing to help out to advance this part of the project. I codl even find a developper to help with it, if needed.
JOe
It seems that the interest is growing.
What would be interesting to see is how many people are inerested, but also a mini plan showing what is entailed, which would also lead into the cost. If we could get an idea of the size/cost of th eproject, we might be abel to get a few people involced on the project.
Also, while the project might be large, would there be ways to do it in phases, in order to slowly reach the end goal, while slowly adding functionality to the software?
Joseph
Isn't it easier to check it yourself than wait for reply on forum?
Yes, of course it possible. There is both bank account inquiry and pdf report (Bank Statement) which list both deposits and payments. If you register cheques/cash/transfers as customer payment you will have always debtors name displayed in reports.
Janusz
Hello Janus,
You asked me why I did not check myself? Well, I was experimenting and ran into a wall. I am still learning the software, so as not being a guru quite yet, I asked a question. I am sorry that you thought I jumped the gun and went to the forums.
What I am looking for is each and every time I make a batch deposit, that I get an actual print out of the items deposited and by whom. (rodw) reworded exactly what I wanted to say.
I tried a few sampel deposits in FA, and when I clicked "OK", the next screen said in so many words: completed.
Rod mentions a till. All I can say, is that I used the software EdgeERP (fork of WebERP) and I did exactly as I stated with out a till the you suggest. I made a "bank deposit" and it went into the account, an I got a print out of the entire transaction.
Is there an option to get a PDF print out of the transaction including all the items deposited?
Joe
It is noce to see discussion on the CRM VTiger topic.
There was a topic brought up asking which parts of VTiger and which parts of FA to use.
I guess that coudl be determined easily, sort of:
Who is doing the inegration? VTiger users, or FA users?
FA usrrs are fine with the accounting, and just want the CRM ability. So, only integrate those parts.
The other way around is done fo rVTiger initiated program.
Unless of course, one can toss them all together, and make one versino, and let the user decide upon installation. Once installed, it would not be able to be changed.
Ideas?
I am new to FA, but am reading more about it and like it.
Joe
I am wondering if it is possible to get a print out of the bank deposit?
How can I go back in FA to see the list of bank deposits and be abel to look at them?
Also, if there is a print out, will it list the company who wrote the check? As the checks are listed, it only the GL account, the amount and the dimension, but how will one know which customer write the check?
Joe
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