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Hi All,

I'm pleased to announce that Simple Invoices 2007 10 02 has now been released!
- Note: This release has been delayed for the last few days as I've been celebrating Geelongs victory over Port in the AFL Grand Final - refer below for photos and details
-- Go CATS!!

This is our first major release is just over 4 months and alot of 'under the hood' work has gone into this release

Main changes:
* Updated UI and menu system
* More preferences moved from config/config.php into the System Preferences page
* Add more items into an itemised ot consulting invoice via the edit page
* PHP5 5 and above only
* How PDFs are generated has been updated - no need for $install_path in config.php

Full ChangeLog

* PHP5 and above only - Simple Invoices will no longer work on PHP4 servers
* Invoices now can be deleted- This is can be enabled via the System Preferences page
* Adding more items to an existing invoice via the edit page it now possible
* New javascript menu included - now works in IEs,FF and Opera
* New language select system - system language can now be changed via the System Preferences page
* All pages move to the smarty templating system
* Updated UI - were slowly moving away from our 37signals style UI to a more unqiue UI
* PDF system modified - $installation_path no longer required
* Authentication sql table added to the default install - so you now longer have to manually run the login sql to get authentication working
* How total invoices are stored in the DB has changed - now a total invoices gets stored as a product in the products table but set to not visible via the Manage Products page
* System Defautls renamed to System Preferences
* Authentication can now be set via the config.php file - no need to adjust include_auth.php anymore
* Customer add template fixed for if no name entered
* Issue 106 Edit tax rates bug fixed
* Report: Debtors owing by customer sql fixed
* SQL patch to alter tax rate to 3 decimal places

Changes since the beta
- PDF and emailing a PDF now work correctly

You can grab a copy of the release from our sourceforge site:
Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=164303
Demo: http://www.simpleinvoices.org/demo

The Cats Grand Final victory over Port (aka the reason why this release wasn't done for the alst few days)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/30/sports/30afl.php
img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/86/Gellong_2007.jpg' />

img src="http://www.afl.com.au/Portals/0/galleries/2007/grandfinal/gallery1/GF_action14.jpg' />

Cheers

Justin

spottraining

Hi

How is upgrading from version 20070525 stable?
Is there some extra, what to check?

justin

Hey SpotTraining

1 - backup your database
- with via the Backup database UI in the Options menu of Simple Invoices or via phpMyAdmin(or similar)

2 - take a copy of config/config.php

3 - either create a new dir for the new release or use the same one(easier to use the same one) and unzip the zip file into that directory

4 - edit the new config/config.php and put back in the db info

5 - open up Simple Invoices and it'll prompt you to run some sql scripts
-- just click Update and it'll sort it out

6 - done

-- things to check
1 - make sure PDF is still working
2 - make sure all your reports show the same total as before
-- they should its just weve changed the way some of the info in the db is stored and want to be 100% alls OK

Cheers

Justin

systemdown

Did upgrade from 20070525 to this version 20071002, and couldn't get PDF's working....
Ended up going back to 20070525

justin

Hey SystemDown

re PDF
- can you post more details
- does it come up with any errors etc..

the PDF directory now lives in ./include/pdf so you need to make that directory writeable by the webserver user

Cheers

Justin

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