contact_email in sales_orders table

The contact_email in the sales_order table is obsolete. It is no longer used.
Instead the contact emails are created in the Contact tab on the customer and or branch.
When you create the contact, remember to make the type of "Orders", or "Generel". If General it will also work for Invoices.

The reason for scrambling the reports is, that otherwise you can enter the following in the url:

https://frontaccounting.com/company/0/pdf_files/sales_order.pdf, if the report name was sales_order.pdf.

Someone can guess the report titles and access them directly this way.

/Joe

The pdf file names and path are defined in the End function in /reporting/includes/pdf_report.inc.

I am afraid that the path is hard core defined in the pdf_report.inc file.

/Joe

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.

pdf_files directory is temporary cache on server side, where pdf reports are created. This folder is automatically cleaned from files older than 3 minutes on every print atempt.

'~/Download folder (I guess) is download directory used by your browser to store downloaded files. In most cases pdf reports are sparse after printing, so you can even configure FA to directly send the report to the printer - in this case ~/Download folder will never be used. It is up to you what you do with the reports after downloading it - FA application does not store the generated reports.
Janusz

Yes, all the pdf reports are printed in the same manner. You can configure your browser to display pdf files directly, but anyway they have to be cached somehow on client side. Most documents has also equivalent html viewers implemented e.g. you can display invoices in popup window instead of printing clicking on respective link in Customer Inquiry.
Janusz

Well, you have to configure your printers under Setup|Printers first. Examples you will find in en_US-demo.sql file. Currently printing system supports only two print destination types:
. lpd compatible network service (standard port 515);
. printing via client browser.

Lpd is standard service supported by probably all printing systems, also currently most popular CUPS have lpd implementation builtin. Using second method you can print reports to any browser connected to your client box, but this is far less handy when you use FA heavily at work.

The example setup provided in en_US-demo.sql is exactly the same as I use in my office. Fortunatelly works as expected from the beginning. While priniting via browser is excelent option when you want to see the report before printing, there is no big sense to use this destination on printing sales invoices. Sending them directly to print server saves your time.

Janusz

In my office server is host name on local network were main printer is connected (just put the name in /etc/hosts file if you  do not want to run dns service).

If you want to use network printer in configuration above and you have cups installed, just install cups-bsd package which provides old good lpd service. Or implement iip protocol in FA and send the code back to contributions mailbox .

Janusz

Tested - lpd works like a charm even outside LAN without VPN,

Wikied it.

Thanks!