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12 <h4><strong><font color="#cc6600"><font style="font-size: 20pt;" size="5"><i>Front</i></font></font></strong><strong><font style="font-size: 20pt;" size="5">Accounting
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13 Update</font></strong></h4>
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14 <h2>Important Notes for release 2.3.21.</h2>
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18 <h4>Crucial security patches:</h4>
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20 This version consists of crucial security patches and this applies especially to all publicly available servers, <br>
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21 f.i. installations which are run in not fully trusted environment like public demos, shared accounts or SAAS.<br>
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22 <h4>New global flags in config.php (config-default.php):</h4>
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23 /* Whether to allow sending new password by e-mail */<br>
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24 <span style="font-weight: bold;">$allow_password_reset = false</span><h2>Important Notes for release 2.3.20.</h2>
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27 <h4>Crucial security patches:</h4>
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28 This version consists of crucial security patches and all guest FA
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29 installations (I mean whenever FA is run in not fully trusted
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30 environment) should be updtaed.<br>
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31 <h2>Important Notes for release 2.3.17.</h2>
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33 <h4>New global flags in config.php (config-default.php):</h4>
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35 Choose Exchange Rate Provider<br>
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36 Default is ECB for backwards compatibility<br>
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38 <span style="font-weight: bold;">$xr_providers = array("ECB", "YAHOO", "GOOGLE", "BLOOMBERG");<br>
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39 $dflt_xr_provider = 0;<br>
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42 Set to true when remote service is authoritative
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43 source of exchange rates, and can be stored automatically without<br>
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44 manual edition. Otherwise exrate is stored on first new currency transaction of the day.<br>
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46 <span style="font-weight: bold;">$xr_provider_authoritative = false;<br>
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47 </span><h2>Important Notes for release 2.3.16.</h2>
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48 <h4>New global flags in config.php (config-default.php):</h4><span style="font-weight: bold;">/*<br> </span> Optional sorting new sales documents lines according to item code<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>*/<br>$sort_sales_items = false;<br><br>/*<br> </span>Trial Balance opening balance presentation option.<br> When set to true past years part of opening balance is cleared.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>*/<br>$clear_trial_balance_opening = false;</span><h2>Important Notes for release 2.3.14.</h2>
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49 <h4>New global flags in config.php (config-default.php):</h4>
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50 /* default print orientation. 0 = Portrait, 1 = Landscape */<br>
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51 <span style="font-weight: bold;">$def_print_orientation
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53 <h2>Important Notes for release 2.3.13.</h2>
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54 <h4>New global flags in config.php (config-default.php):</h4>
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55 /* No check on edit conflicts. Maybe needed to be set to 1 in certains
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56 Windows Servers */<br>
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57 <span style="font-weight: bold;">$no_check_edit_conflicts
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59 <h2>Important Notes for release 2.3.12.</h2>
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60 <h4>New global flags in config.php (config-default.php):</h4>
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62 Display a dropdown select box for
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63 choosing Company to login if false.<br>
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64 Show a blank editbox only if true where
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65 the Company NickName<br>
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66 will have to be manually entered. This
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67 is when privacy is needed.<br>
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69 <span style="font-weight: bold;">$text_company_selection</span>
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72 /* Should FA hide menu items (Applications, Modules, and
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73 Actions) from the user if they don't have access to them? <br>
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74 0 for
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75 no 1 for yes<br>
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78 <span style="font-weight: bold;">$hide_inaccessible_menu_items</span>
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82 Brute force prevention.<br>
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83 $login_delay seconds delay is required
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84 between login attempts after $login_max_attemps failed logins.<br>
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85 Set $login_delay to 0 to disable the
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86 feature (not recommended)<br>
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88 <span style="font-weight: bold;">$login_delay</span>
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90 <span style="font-weight: bold;">$login_max_attempts</span>
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92 <h2><strong></strong>Important Notes for release
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94 Change in the behaviour of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Recurrent
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95 Invoices</span>.<br>
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98 the Last Sent day is stamped with the former Last Sent (or Begin date
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99 the first time) + months + days. Before the Last Sent day was stamped
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100 with tthe creation date (today). The Invoice date is still todays date.
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102 <li>If you for some reason want to make a pause in the
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104 invoices, you can now edit the Last Sent day in the Management section
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106 <li>Before the days value, together with a month
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107 value, decided which day in the month the invoice was due..
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109 does not work now. You can change the day in the
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111 want the recurrency to happen by setting the Last Sent day with the new
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112 day in the Management section. </li>
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113 <li>If you create a new Recurrent Invoice the Beginning date
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114 can be set to the day in the month you want the recurrencies to be due.</li>
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116 <h2>Important Notes</h2>
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117 <p>Upgrade process can be done only by administrator of the first
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118 company created during FrontAccounting installation. This person is
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119 considered as a site admin who have granted access to potentially
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120 dangerous setup options, like Setup/Software Upgrade.</p>
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121 <p>In the following description sections related to older FA
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123 prefixed with <span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">[color
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124 tags]</span><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">
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125 . Y</span>ou can skip tagged fragment safely if currently FA
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126 application is newer than the version in tag.</p>
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127 <p>Upgrade process consists of up to four stages, some of them
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132 <p>Application source files update </p>
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135 <p>Database upgrade – this step is needed only during upgrade
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136 which involves change in major application version number (e.g. from
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137 2.2.x to 2.3.x), and sometimes during upgrade from beta release to
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138 stable version. Otherwise this step can be skipped.</p>
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141 <p>Final cleanup – is needed when some old source files,
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142 obsoleted by new release should be removed.</p>
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145 <p>New features configuration – this is optional step needed
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146 for most major releases and some minor ones. </p>
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149 <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Before starting upgrade
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151 is using the application and make database backup for all companies.
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152 To be on safe side backup also old source files, especially those
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153 locally customized (if any).</p>
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154 <p>Log into admin account of first company.<strong> </strong><strong><span style="">If
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155 you use a theme other than the standard 3 (aqua, cool or default),
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156 switch to one of these before going further.</span></strong></p>
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157 <h2><strong><b>1. Application files update</b></strong></h2>
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158 <p style="margin-top: 0.42cm; page-break-after: avoid;"><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><font size="4"><strong><span style="">a. Source
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159 files update</span></strong></font></font></p>
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160 <p><strong><span style="">Extract distribution
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161 zip/tar.gz file in empty directory, and copy all the files to your
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162 FrontAccounting directory overwriting old files. If it is major
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163 release upgrade you can skip next step and go directly to cleanup.</span></strong></p>
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164 <p style="margin-top: 0.42cm; page-break-after: avoid;"><strong><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="">b. Configuration
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165 files update</span></font></font></strong></p>
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166 <p><strong><span style="">Compare new
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167 </span></strong><strong><i><b>config.default.php</b></i></strong><strong>
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168 </strong><strong><span style="">file with the
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170 </span></strong><strong><i><b>config.php </b></i></strong><strong><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">and
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171 add all n</span></span></strong><strong><span style="">ew
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172 settings (if any). </span></strong>
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174 <p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">[<FA
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175 2.2beta]</span></span></strong></p>
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176 <p><strong> <span style="">$show_users_online
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177 = 0;</span></strong></p>
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178 <p><strong> <span style="">$def_print_destination
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179 = 0;</span></strong></p>
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180 <p><strong><span style="">$dflt_date_fmt=0;</span></strong></p>
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181 <p><strong><span style="">$dflt_date_sep=0;</span></strong></p>
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182 <p><strong><span style="">$table_style,table_style2
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183 changed</span></strong></p>
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184 <p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">[<FA
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185 2.3beta]</span></span></strong></p>
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186 <p><strong> <span style="">$alternative_tax_include_on_doc=0;</span></strong></p>
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187 <p><strong><span style="">$suppress_tax_rates
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188 = 0;</span></strong></p>
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189 <p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">[<FA
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190 2.3RC1]</span></span></strong><strong> </strong>
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192 <p><strong><span style="">Application version
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193 information and a couple of other private FA variables are stored in
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194 </span></strong><strong><i><b>version.php</b></i></strong><strong>
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195 </strong><strong><span style="">file. The
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196 application version displayed in footer is defined in $version
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197 variable unless this is set in config.php file. If you want current
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198 release version to be displayed on every FA update just remove or
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199 comment out $version variable in </span></strong><strong><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">config.php</span></span></strong><strong><span style="">.</span></strong></p>
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200 <p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">[<FA
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201 2.3RC2]</span></span></strong></p>
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202 <p><strong> <span style="">$save_report_selections
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203 = 0; // A value > 0 means days to save the
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204 report selections.</span></strong></p>
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205 <p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">[<FA
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206 2.3]</span></span></strong></p>
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207 <p><strong> <span style="">$save_po_item_codes
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208 = 0; // show item codes on purchase
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209 order </span></strong></p>
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210 <p><strong><span style="">$def_print_destination
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211 = 0; // default print destination. 0 = PDF/Printer, 1 = Excel</span></strong></p>
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212 <p><strong><span style="">$alternative_tax_include_on_docs
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213 = 0; // 1 = print Subtotal tax excluded, tax and Total tax
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214 included</span></strong></p>
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215 <p><strong><span style="">$suppress_tax_rates
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216 = 0; // suppress tax rates on documents. 0 = no, 1 = yes.</span></strong></p>
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217 <strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"></span></span></strong><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"></span></span></strong>
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218 <h2><strong><b>2. Database upgrade</b></strong></h2>
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219 <p><strong><span style="">This step can be
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221 for small version updates i.e. when you have already installed
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222 FrontAccounting version 2.3.1 or later. Before database upgrade is
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223 done on all company databases backup file is created automatically to
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224 enable database restore after failure.</span></strong></p>
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225 <p><strong><span style="">After major version
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226 upgrade overwriting files in first step makes the system unaccessible
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227 for all users but site admin, who have to run upgrade procedures to
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228 update all company databases to the new version provided with the
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229 release. After logging to administrator account of first installed
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230 company go directly to Setup/Software Upgrade screen, mark all
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231 subsequent 'Install' checkboxes and press 'Upgrade System'.</span></strong></p>
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232 <p style="">If something goes wrong during
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233 upgrade, you can eventually try forced upgrade option. Forced upgrade
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234 ignores some smaller errors which can arise during upgrade due to
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235 some exotic database configuration. This is depreciated option, so
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236 first read error messages if any, try to fix signalized problems,
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237 restore databases from backup and retry normal installation. To run
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238 upgrade in forced mode check box 'Force Upgrade', and press 'Upgrade
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240 <h2>3. Final cleanup</h2>
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241 <p>Remove or rename install folder in main FrontAccounting
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244 <p>After upgrade is installed you can remove files obsoleted by
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246 FrontAccounting version. Also old, unused settings <span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">can
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247 be removed from </span></span><i><b>config.php</b></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">
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248 file.</span></span></p>
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249 <p style="margin-top: 0.42cm; page-break-after: avoid;"><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><font size="4">a.
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250 Source files cleanup</font></font></p>
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251 <p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">[<FA
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252 2.2beta]</span></span></strong></p>
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253 <p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">/includes/reserved.inc
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254 – removed.</span></span></strong></p>
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255 <p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">[<FA
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256 2.1]</span></span></strong><strong> </strong>
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258 <p><strong><span style="">/admin/db/v_banktrans.inc
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259 - removed</span></strong></p>
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260 <p style="margin-top: 0.42cm; page-break-after: avoid;"><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">b.
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261 Config.php cleanup </span></span></font></font>
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263 <p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">[<FA
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264 2.2RC1]</span></span></strong><strong> </strong>
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266 <p><strong><span style="">$security_headings,
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267 $security_groups arrays – moved to database (see Access Setup) </span></strong>
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269 <p><strong><span style="">$def_app – moved
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270 to user configuration in database.</span></strong></p>
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271 <p><strong><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">$version
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272 – moved to </span></span></strong><strong><i><b>version.php</b></i></strong><strong><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">
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273 file. Remove</span></span></strong></p>
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274 <h2>4. New features configuration</h2>
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275 <p>During upgrade process new features are initialized to default
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276 status, and sometimes old settings are also changed to conform with
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277 new security policy. This automatic process is designed to be as
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278 neutral for end users as possible, however sometimes site or company
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279 admin intervention can be necessary to set thing after changes to
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280 their best state. Below you will find description of new settings
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281 available after upgrade.</p>
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285 <p>----------------------</p>
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