I can’t wait for vtiger 5.0.4 to come out.

This is great news.

Well done!

Thank you,
Prasad
vtiger Team

The only minor bug is that every accentuated letter is converted to a “?” (without quotes). This happens with a fresh windows “testbuild” install, UTF-8 encoding seems to be enabled for both apache and mysql.
I will test soon on linux and report.

I have installed the multi-lang PDF output patch available in the VtigerForge, which works nicely enough. A better idea would be to automatically output the PDF in the native language of the client… which would require a “speaking language” field…
Will Vtiger ever have such a functonnality built-in ?

Anyway, keep up the good job !

Balduin wrote:

I hope you will give us enough time to test it. The long awaited switch to UTF-8 is significant and requires some testing with proper language files and real data.

The validation phase will take more than a week. Hope this would be enough for your testing. Please let us know if you have any specific requirements and you need more time for validation.

Regards,
Asha
vtiger team

1. Create Admin options to lock the specific fields for users not to edit in some fields in the Sales Order Form like the “LIST PRICE”, “TAX” field.

2. Create Admin options to add customs fields in the Sales Order Form under the “PRODUCT DETAIL” portion and make it viewable and printable.

3. Create Admin options to select specific field in the Product Informations form under “CUSTOM FIELDS” and make it viewable and printable.

4. Create Easy Options to change logo in the front page to make it personalized.

5. Create Product Return Entry Form and Reports for items returned or cancelled by the customers and added again to the quantity in the Product Inventory.

6. Create Account image field in the Account Form.

7. A unique year-end closing utility that converts old entries to viewable archives and automatically forwards ending balances to the periodic year as beginning balances

8. Possibility of FIFO, weighted average pricing or stock-value calculation based on manual cost price.

9. Comprehensive Physical Inventory Form and Reports. Doing periodic physical inventories is the essential piece of any effort to control your inventory. Physical inventories, the process by which retailers count the physical merchandise in the store and then look to reconcile it with stock quantities in the system, are the bridge between theory and reality. No matter how good your inventory control software is, if you are not periodically conducting physical inventories, the numbers in the system will be increasingly divorced from reality as time goes on.

10. Users comprehensive manual.

Well… i have a lot of request listed above… thats all for now.

Thanks for doing it GREAT.

God Bless You All.

3. Create Admin options to select specific field in the Product Informations form under “CUSTOM FIELDS” and make it viewable and printable in the Sales Order form under “PRODUCT DETAIL” portion.

Thanks

Its good to hear, vtiger meets 90% of your requirements

Thanks for putting up list of requirements you had.
We will try to address them in the future releases.

Hope that is fine.

Regards,
Prasad
vtiger Team

The patch and the migration script to upgrade vtiger to 5.0.4 version, is now available. Please note that these patches are mainly given only for testing purposes.

Patch 1 for vtiger CRM 5.0.3 :
http://64.14.15.24/archives/validation-testbuild/vtigercrm-5.0.3-patch1-validation-testbuild.zip

Patch 4 for vtiger CRM 5.0.0 :
http://64.14.15.24/archives/validation-testbuild/vtigercrm-5.0.0-patch4-validation-testbuild.zip

vtiger CRM 5.0.0 patch 4 is a consolidated patch which includes patch1, patch2 and patch3.

Steps to apply the patch :

Step 1 : Download the patch and unzip it in the vtiger CRM home directory.
Step 2 : Please do the following changes in config.inc.php before starting migration

Set the value of $default_charset as ‘UTF-8′.
ie., $default_charset = ‘UTF-8′;

and add the following lines at the end of the file.
// trim descriptions, titles in listviews to this value$listview_max_textlength = 40;

Step 3 : Login as admin user
Step 4 : Click on the Settings tab
Step 5 : Go to Migration Wizard.
Step 6 : Use the option ‘Upgrade my vtiger 5.x version to Current Version (5.0.4)’
Step 7 : Go to Smarty/templates_c and remove all the cached files which ends with “.tpl.php”. If not you may not get the ui changes properly.
Step 8 : Go to your browser options and clear the cache.

Patch for PHP5.2 is included in 5.0.4. So you do not need that patch.

Regards,
Asha
vtiger team

If I try admin/admin or admin/mypwd the login screen comes back with ‘please use a vaild username/password’

I’ve reinstalled several times, checked settings in php.ini, checked mysql user/permissions.

Just trying a stock 5.0.3+PHP5.2 Patch to check I’m not stupid, but any ideas welcome

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So not sure whether this post will work!

Anyways, Great effort, vtiger team! This is just a post to mention that the build succeeded on my OpenBSD system and to mention a few of the minor issues I noticed. Any comments or suggestions on how I could have avoided those issues will be greatly appreciated.

Installed vTiger 5.0.4 Validation Build on OpenBSD .4.2-current, chrooted httpd server without any major problems. I had to install the following from ports/packages to make it work

pear-1.5.0p1 base classes for common PHP tasks
pear-Mail-1.1.14p0 class that provides multiple interfaces for sending email
pear-utils-1.5.0p0 utilities for managing pear extensions
php5-core-5.2.4p0 server-side HTML-embedded scripting language
php5-gd-5.2.4 image manipulation extensions for php5
php5-imap-5.2.4 imap, pop3 and nntp extensions for php5
php5-mysql-5.2.4 mysql database access extensions for php5
php5-soap-5.2.4 SOAP functions for php5

The only issue that was difficult to figure out was webmail. We use dovecot as the IMAP Server and the typical combination of IMAPv4/TLS/validate cert did not work (works if hard coded in webmail.php). However, the combination of
IMAPv4/SSL/do not validate SSL Cert works.

The recommended php.ini file that comes with the suhosin-hardened php on OpenBSD did not work for me. Using the regular php.ini worked.

If there are any documents/advice on using php more securely or ways to use the php.ini-recommended file that OpenBSD php packages come with, please let me know.

With OpenBSD, renaming the install directory and the install.php file did not work as part of the installation process. I had to manually make the changes. Also, “System Details” shows a lots of errors (probably because the web
server is chrooted).

The UI for webmail looks awkward when there are lots of IMAP folders. On Konqueror it does not look as bad but on IE 7.0 and on Firefox 2.0, there is a lot of white space before the message list and also since the message
display is lined up with the bottom of the page, there is a lot of whitespace between the list of messages and the message text box. I tried to edit the template files but was not successful. If there are fewer than 15 or so
folders on the IMAP server, the display looks fine.

Thanks again for an excellent product.

Vijay

Good to hear vtiger working on your server

Thank you very much for sharing the insights on your setup.

Will try to follow up on the issue related to the forum you have highlighted.

Kindly use our forums and get involved in the community.

Regards,
Prasad
vtiger Team

Cannot get 5.0.4 to work with
PCBSD1.4 Apache 2.2.4 + PHP 5.2.1 + MySQL 5.0.33

Cannot get past login screen - will try and investigate further

Thanks

Just one thing I made an misstake an key in just one “a” in the global search field…….. And vtiger working for a while and gives a BIG hit list. It would be nice if it stops after maybe 50 hits or some thing. How ever I can’t see that this is some thing that you need to fix before this release.

Best regards
/Johan

Thanks,
Tom

Thanks,
Asha
vtiger Team

Ken

All previous versions worked OK

So, please, when possible add these rules to Vtiger:

ISO=”EUR” short=”Euro” decimals=”2″ decimal-separator=”,” grouping-separator=”.” currency-placement=”before”

Thanks very much for reading this and I hope this post is not off-topic.

Artur

I’m using

PHP 4.3.10
MySQL client version: 5.0.32

thanks,

http://forums.vtiger.com/viewtopic.php?t=14909&start=20

I’ll do a “stare and compare” to see if i can find anything obvious.

http://trac.vtiger.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/4044

Thanks & Regards,
Minnie.

Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued.

The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5.

For documentation on migration for PHP 4 to PHP 5, we would like to point you to our migration guide. There is additional information available in the PHP 5.0 to PHP 5.1 and PHP 5.1 to PHP 5.2 migration guides as well.”

So maybe it’s just some wast of time to do something about it?

Best Regards
Johan

Thank you for updating information on PHP 4.

Regards,
Prasad
vtiger Team

http://vtiger.artcode.eu

Which makes no sense at all.

Most of the utf-8 issues are now addressed. vtiger 5.0.4 RC is out which has most of these issues addressed.

Refer to the following blog post for details:
http://www.vtiger.com/blogs/2008/01/09/vtiger-504-rc-has-been-released/