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<div><strong><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0); font-style: italic;">Front</span>Accounting Update</span></strong></div>
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-<br />
-
-<h2>Important Notes</h2>
+<br /><h2>Important Notes</h2>
<ul>
<li>You can easily upload all the files to your installation folder on the
-server overwriting the existing files, <strong><em>if you take these important
-steps</em></strong>:
- <ol>
- <li>Backup (download) the following files to another folder:
- <ol>
- <li><strong>config_db.php</strong> (contains information about the companies and
-connection info).
- </li>
- <li><strong>config.php</strong> (contains various settings. You only need to
-backup this file if you have done manually changes to it.
- </li>
- <li><strong>/lang/installed_languages.inc</strong> (contains information about the
-installed languages)
- </li>
- <li><strong>/modules/installed_modules.php</strong> (contains information about
-installed modules<strong></strong>)</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">installed_extensions.php</span> (contains information about installed extensions to the menu system)</li>
- <li>if you have made <em>changes to other files</em>, like themes or so, backup
-these files too. </li>
+server overwriting the existing files. From 2.2 RC, your existing configuration files, - <span style="font-weight: bold;">config_db.php, config.php, /lang/installed_languages.inc and installed_extensions.php</span> - will nolonger be installed. They are created the first time you install FrontAccounting and don't need further updates.<br /><ol>
+ </ol><ul><li>Backup (download) the following files to another folder:
+ <ul><li>if you have made <em>changes to other files</em>, like themes or so, backup
+these files. </li></ul><ol>
</ol>
- </li>
- <li>Upload all the new files.
- </li>
- <li>Restore the files mentioned in #1. Be <strong>careful</strong> with
- <strong>config.php</strong>. Look into variances. There might be new variables in
-the new version. It might be easier to <em>manually change your former values in
-the new file</em>.
- </li>
- <li>Rename or remove the /install folder (you have already performed the install
-process earlier). </li>
+ </li><li>Upload all the new files.
+ </li><li>Look into the file, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">config.default.php and compare with your own config.php</span> file. You should update the the following in your config.php:<br /><br /></li><ul><li><small>Change the $version in your <span style="font-weight: bold;">config.php</span> file, about line 59, from "2.X.X" to "2.2".</small></li><li><small>Copy these 2 lines from <span style="font-weight: bold;">config.default.php</span> about line 80-82 into <span style="font-weight: bold;">config.php</span> about line 80:<br /><br /><span style="font-family: monospace;">/* Show users online discretetely in the footer */</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="font-family: monospace;">$show_users_online = 0;</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="font-family: monospace;">Change this to 1 if you want to show users online.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /></small></li><li><small>Replace the 2 lines about line 110-111 in <span style="font-weight: bold;">config.php</span>:<br /><br /><span style="font-family: monospace;">$table_style = "cellpadding=3 border=1 bordercolor='#8cacbb' style='border-collapse: collapse'";</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="font-family: monospace;">$table_style2 = "cellpadding=3 border=1 bordercolor='#cccccc' style='border-collapse: collapse'";</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /></small></li><li><small>With these 4 lines from <span style="font-weight: bold;">config.default.php</span>:<br /><br /><span style="font-family: monospace;">if (!isset($_SESSION['bordercolor']))</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="font-family: monospace;"> $_SESSION['bordercolor'] = "#8cacbb";</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="font-family: monospace;">$table_style = "cellpadding=3 border=1 bordercolor='".$_SESSION['bordercolor']."' class='tablestyle'";</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="font-family: monospace;">$table_style2 = "cellpadding=3 border=1 bordercolor='#cccccc' class='tablestyle2'";</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /></small></li><li><small>Remove these 2 lines from <span style="font-weight: bold;">config.php</span> about line 176-177:<br /><br /><span style="font-family: monospace;">/* default start-up tab (orders/AP/stock/manuf/proj/GL/system) */</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="font-family: monospace;">$def_app = "orders";</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /></small></li><li><small>Copy these 3 lines from config.default.php about line 113-115<br /><br /><span style="font-family: monospace;">// defalt dateformats and dateseps indexes used before user login</span></small><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><small style="font-family: monospace;">$dflt_date_fmt = 0;</small><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><small><span style="font-family: monospace;">$dflt_date_sep = 0;</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /></small></li><li><small>Copy these 2 lines from <span style="font-weight: bold;">config.default.php</span> about line 211-212:<br /><br /><span style="font-family: monospace;">define("ICON_SUBMIT", "ok.gif"); // new in 2.2</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="font-family: monospace;">define("ICON_ESCAPE", "escape.png"); // new in 2.2</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /></small></li><li><small>And paste them into <span style="font-weight: bold;">config.php</span> about line 209</small></li><li><small>If you use gregorian calendar and have non-workdays on Friday and first day of week = Saturday<br />then you should set this line in <span style="font-weight: bold;">config.php</span> about line 95.<br /></small><pre><small>$date_system = 3;</small></pre></li><li><small>If you want to use FrontAccounting help wiki then set this line in config.php about line 85<br /></small><pre><small>$help_base_url = "http://frontaccounting.net/fawiki?n=Help.";<br /></small></pre></li></ul><li>Rename or remove the /install folder (you have already performed the install
+process earlier).<br /></li></ul><ol>
+
+
+
</ol>
- </li><li><strong>When
-updating release 2.0.X to release 2.1.X, you must immediately
+ </li><li><strong>You
+must immediately
login on company 0, the first company you created, as admin
(called the superadmin). If you use a theme other than the standard 3,
aqua, cool or default, switch to one of these before going further. You
-can download a new one of the new themes on the download page. Go
+can download a new one of the new themes on the download page
+later. Go
to the 'Setup' tab and run 'Software
Upgrade'.
-Mark the checkbox 'Install' and press 'Upgrade System'. This will
-upgrade ALL your companies.</strong></li><li style="font-weight: bold;">If something goes wrong during upgrade, you can enter here again and try 'Force Upgrade', and press 'Upgrade System' again.</li><li><strong style="font-weight: bold;"></strong><strong>There are no database changes during a major and minor release. Like from 2.1 to 2.1.1 - 2.1.5 .</strong></li><li style="font-weight: bold;">When
-updating from release 2.1.2 to 2.1.3, please go into Bank and General
-Ledger tab. Enter Account Classes. Change the Class Types to a proper
-value for all classes.</li><li style="font-weight: bold;">When updating from release 2.1.4 to 2.1.5, please go into Bank and General Ledger tab. Enter Quick Entries. <br />The Tax now uses Tax Types instead of Item Tax Types. The reason for changing this is for the complex rules inside the EU.<br />Change
-to correct Tax Type. If you need more Tax Type lines in the same Quick
-Entry, please group them together and use the same action type.</li>
-</ul>
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+Mark the checkbox 'Install' and press 'Upgrade System'. You must
+also do this if you upgrade from 2.2 Beta to 2.2 RC. This will
+upgrade ALL your companies.<br /></strong></li><li style="font-weight: bold;">If something goes wrong during upgrade, you can enter here again and try 'Force Upgrade', and press 'Upgrade System' again.<br /></li><li><strong>There are no database changes during a major and minor release. Like from 2.2 to 2.2.1 - 2.2.X .<br /></strong></li><li style="font-weight: bold;">Enter
+'Setup' tab, 'System and Generel GL Setup'. Set the correct
+Accounts for Retained Earnings, Profit/Loss Year and Bank Charge.<br /></li><li style="font-weight: bold;">Enter
+'Setup' tab, 'Access Setup'. Check all the roles and change as you
+please. The roles have been converted from the former Access Roles and
+may need some changes.<br /></li><li style="font-weight: bold;">Enter
+'Setup' tab, 'Company Setup'. If you want Automatic Item Price
+Calculations from Standard Cost, add a percent to add and
+eventually round to the nearest XX Cent. Also check that Base for Auto
+Price calculations is set.<br /> </li></ul></body></html>
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