[Frontaccounting-fa_list] 2.2 Beta Released

[Joe H. <joe...@gm...>]

News in FrontAccounting 2.2 Beta
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Common
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- Quick Entries uses Tax Types instead of Item Tax Types
- Support for default buttons with Ctrl-Enter/Escape hotkeys
- Arrow navigations in menus
- Option to use last document date on subsequent new documents.
- Full support for inactive records
- Time Zone on Reports
- Audit Trail for all operations with Report
- Bank Charge field in Customer/Supplier Payment.
- New default fields in Company table for Bank Charge, Retained Earnings and
  Profit/Loss Year.
- Direct Allocation of Invoices in Customer/Supplier Payments
- New Access Levels/Security Roles system enables fine tunning person
access rights.
- Item Tax Types moved to Setup module
- Default Start-up Tab set by user.
- Authorization timeout parameter set in Company preferences

Sales
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- Customer/Supplier Balance Reports now with Open Balance from selected date
- Added Sales Quotations, Inquiry and Report

Purchasing
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- Better support for conversion factor in Purchasing Prices.
- Purchasing price can have up to 6 decimals allowing fractions of
hundredths in
  prices.

Items and Inventory
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- Item Categories contains default parameters for new items.
- Excluded from Sale. Non Sales Items from Categories.
- GRN Valuation Report
- Automatic price-calculation of Items from Std. Cost (if no prices
set on items)
- Rounding of prices to nearest XX Cent after calculations.

Manufacturing
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- Printing/Emailing of Work Orders

Dimensions
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- Re-opening of Closed dimensions

Banking and General Ledger
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- Closing a fiscal year also closes the balances and brings forward
retained earnings
- Deleting a fiscal year removes all transactions and convert into
relevant Open
  Balances.
- Journal Enquiry
- Edition/view of Journal Entries.
- Group Sorting by Id in Account Selectors
- Default per currency bank accounts (used in reports). The Bank
Account selection on
  documents has been replaced by this.

Bugs fixed in this release
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- Fixed php 5 warnings flood in error log.
- All bugs up to release 2.1.6 are fixed in this release too.