FrontAccounting 2.4 RC1 At a Glance
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Recently, On February 23, 2016. The new stable version has been released from official. There are lot of bug-fix and some up-gradation to work on next version in php. Let’s look at the new features and its advantage.
- New Icon sets which replaced existing icons. specially for the `Preference`, `Logout`, `Change Password`, `Help`, etc
- New Built-in Dashboard added
- `Transaction Reference` Instead of `Form Setup`
- MySQL query has been added advanced one , and also the mysql query method is also working for the pre version php servers.
- New Module fixed Assets
- Two new tables. One is for Journal Entries and another one for Reference lines
New Icons:
The recent release have quite changes in the core code and its database too. We can see new icons in Frontaccounting, specially for the `Preference`, `Logout`, `Change Password`, `Help`, etc and the module listing icons also customized well. Which gives increased look to it.
Dashboard:
There before, we need to install extension to get dashboard. Now, they give us an built-in dashboard without any settings options. which is nice to work . Which has top customers, top sales, purchases, etc. You will love to use it definitely.
Reference Change:
The pre functionality “Form Setup” has been changed into “Transaction Reference,”. Also it has a new table with advanced option for the reference setup.
MySQL Function change:
There many new users have the problem of older version mysql_connect functionlity. Which has been replaced with `mysqli_` functions, still the `mysql_` is exist, which will work for the older servers. Hope it will be a great flexibility for the existing users and new users with recent php versions.
Fixed Asset:
Many developers tried to give custom extension for fixed asset and a lot of requests for the module. So the recent release have a built-in feature of Fixed assets. This is new module added from this version. Frontaccounting 2.4RC.
Journal Entry:
The Journal entry has some extended feature, which is storing in separate table for the flexibility.
