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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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<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>
+server overwriting the existing files. From 2.2 RC, your existing configuration files, - <span style="font-weight: bold;">config_db.php, config.php, /land/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.<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>only vers. 1.1</strong>)
- </li>
- <li>if you have made <em>changes to other files</em>, like themes or so, backup
-these files too. </li>
+ <ol><li>if you have made <em>changes to other files</em>, like themes or so, backup
+these files. </li>
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<li>Upload all the new files.
</li>
- <li>Restore the files mentioned in #1. Be <strong>careful</strong> with
- <strong>config.db</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>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 $version in your config.php file. If there are other differences, please correct them too.
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<li>Rename or remove the /install folder (you have already performed the install
process earlier). </li>
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- <li>If there are changes to the database structure, please run the script <strong><em>update_db.php</em></strong>
-from FrontAccounting root installation, Enter the database user and the password and choose the update script from the local harddisk.</li>
- <li><strong>When updating release 1.XX to release 2.0, you must run the update_db.php script and select the file <em>- alter.sql -</em> that are located in the sql folder. You <em>must</em> do this, before entering FrontAccounting!
-Enter the database user and the password and choose the alter.sql script. <br>You must also manuelly ensure that you have write permission to the new folder /company/0.</strong></li>
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+ </li><li><strong>When
+updating release 2.1.X to release 2.2.X, you should first restore
+your $security_headers and $security_groups from your old config.php
+file, alternative unmark them in the new config.php. The reason is a new
+access_level system in 2.2.</strong></li><li><strong>Then 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
+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 style="font-weight: bold;">Now you should comment your old $securityheaders and $security_groups.</li><li><strong style="font-weight: bold;"></strong><strong>There are no database changes during a major and minor release. Like from 2.2 to 2.2.1 - 2.2.X .</strong></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">If you get a blank screen after login, this might be caused of a bad configuration of the database connection in config_db.php.</span></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.</li><li style="font-weight: bold;">Enter
+'Setup' tab, 'Access Setup'. Check all the roles and change as you
+please. The roles has been converted from the former Access Roles and
+may need some changes.</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. </li></ul></body></html>
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