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Re: Problem With Saving Parts

2009-12-09T10:58:24Z

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:57 AM, <lai@...> wrote:

my guest is it is a primary key of the table partsvendor and you should
check and see if it is generated by a sequence or if it is from an input
variable. if it is the latter may be you are entering duplicated
partsvendor info.

It is generated from a sequence :-)
partsvendor_entry_id_seq

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Re: Problem With Saving Parts

2009-12-09T09:59:23Z

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:16 AM, David Richardson <dsrich@...> wrote:

Just to stick in my $0.02: I have had this type of semi-random
"collision" problem (MS-SQL, however) due to hashed indices when the
hashed values collide. Not sure if it would help here, but you might
be a little careful about replacing stuff if they are using this sort
of index - a little double-check in SQL code might be in order..

In PG, this is USUALLY caused by a sequence somehow getting out of whack. The keys are indexed though so I suppose that could be a factor as well.

If the setval statement doesn't fix it (by setting the sequence to the maximum value in the table), then a reindex might be in order.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers

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Re: Problem With Saving Parts

2009-12-09T09:57:13Z

my guest is it is a primary key of the table partsvendor and you should
check and see if it is generated by a sequence or if it is from an input
variable. if it is the latter may be you are entering duplicated
partsvendor info.

the other would be the code has a booboo. lastly, something similar had
happed to us about 2 months ago when we had upgraded our server to a quad
core and centos. the vanilla install of perl utilized threads (had known
issues) and it was causing similar problems that we guess was from
contention. so we recompiled perl to not use thread and the issue went
away. best of luck!

tim

> Hi all,
> I've mentioned this before, but it is now becoming a real problem.
>
> When Saving a part with the Vendor info filled in it is taking
> increasingly long for for the save not to produce this error:
>
> "DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: duplicate key violates unique
> constraint "partsvendor_pkey" at LedgerSMB/IC.pm line 529.
>
>
> Error!
>
> INSERT INTO partsvendor
> (vendor_id, parts_id,
> partnumber, lastcost,
> leadtime, curr)
> VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
> ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint "partsvendor_pkey"
> "
>
> There seems to be no rhyme nor reason, sometimes it works first time,
> every time for a while, other (now most) times it can take ages.
>
> The record so far is 102 attempts, and just changing a spelling mistake
> can now take 20 mins!
>
>
> When saving a new part, the same happens but the part record is saved
> without the vendor info - the part complete records then have to be
> deleted manually.
>
> The only trend is that it is getting much worse as the dbase grows!
>
> If necessary I can supply a back-up of our dbase for testing - I was
> hoping that I could hang on for 1.3, but this is becoming a real
> problem.
>
> Cheers
> Richard
>
>
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Re: Problem With Saving Parts

2009-12-09T09:42:41Z

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:35 AM, beamends <lrspares45@...> wrote:

Hi all,
I've mentioned this before, but it is now becoming a real problem.

When Saving a part with the Vendor info filled in it is taking
increasingly long for for the save not to produce this error:

"DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: duplicate key violates unique
constraint "partsvendor_pkey" at LedgerSMB/IC.pm line 529.

Error!

INSERT INTO partsvendor
(vendor_id, parts_id,
partnumber, lastcost,
leadtime, curr)
VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint "partsvendor_pkey"
"

try:

SELECT setval('partsvendor_entry_id_seq', max(entry_id)) from partsvendor;

There seems to be no rhyme nor reason, sometimes it works first time,
every time for a while, other (now most) times it can take ages.

The record so far is 102 attempts, and just changing a spelling mistake
can now take 20 mins!

When saving a new part, the same happens but the part record is saved
without the vendor info - the part complete records then have to be
deleted manually.

The only trend is that it is getting much worse as the dbase grows!

If necessary I can supply a back-up of our dbase for testing - I was
hoping that I could hang on for 1.3, but this is becoming a real
problem.

Cheers
Richard

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Re: Problem With Saving Parts

2009-12-09T09:29:07Z

Hi Richard,

I hope you meant version 1.2.18 (not 2.1.18) as we are waiting for 1.3 to be release at the moment! :-) , :-P

>From what you have just told me I would like to refer this to Chris T.
With the fact that you have

done a number of upgrades of LSMB
have a partial karmic upgrade done

Some extreme expert advise will be required.

run
    P=$(grep '[^#].*Bport' /usr/local/ledgersmb12/ledgersmb.conf | sed 's/.*=.//');
    grep -l "$P" /etc/postgresql/8.[0-9]/main/postgresql.conf | cut -d/ -f4
This will return 8.2 or 8.3 depending on the port numbers LSMB and Postgres are configured for
Also running
    pg_lsclusters
should return something like this....
Version Cluster   Port Status Owner    Data directory                     Log file 8.3     main      5432 online postgres /var/lib/postgresql/8.3/main       /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-8.3-main.logYou can compare the port with what was stored in P (from the above command P=$(grep..........)   by running
echo "LSMB Port =$P"

If you could double check your version numbers and complete the summary below.
Correcting everything, especially the bits in red. Set the color to black when done.

OS Version: Ubuntu 9.04 with a failed 9.10 upgrade PostGres Version: 8.????LSMB Version: Started at 1.2.8 Currently at 1.2.18 (upgraded over time, with no DB changes)Number of Vendors: 21 Number of Parts: ?????? Number of Vendors per Part: 1 Number of DB Records: Problem started arround 20,000 Currently arround ???????

Once Chris (or another guru) has helped you sort the DB
or they would like you to complete the Ubuntu Upgrade
Email me at info at sbts .d.o.t. com .d.o.t. au
or call on +61 437 286 200 (australia)
and I can provide assistance with the upgrade as it is a part of what the business does.

time for sleep (1:30am) will monitor the list all day tomorrow.

Regards
David Godfrey

beamends wrote:

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 22:28 +0800, David Godfrey wrote:

Hi Rich and Beamends,

I would be hesitant to suggest this path without chatting with Chris T
or one of the other developers first.
The code is, I think, correct.
I suspect that there is a problem elsewhere, most likely with the
underlying database.

What version are you running, was the DB setup for this version from
scratch, or was the DB migrated from an earlier version?
Also do you have any modified code in LSMB?
I guess it would make sense to ask what version of what OS you are
running and also what version of postgresql.

These answers may help the experts answer more quickly.

One more question, how many items do you have in inventory?

I have about three thousand items in mine, with no problems and know
that there are others with many more.
Until now I have not heard of any reports about this problem.

One thing I have noticed though, if you try and define multiple "Make
and Model" entries for a part you will always get errors (I think they
are "duplicate key" errors, but it has been a while).
Never had a problem with multiple vendors though.

Regards
David G


Fair comment... 

it's 

LSMB 2.1.18
Postgres 8.2 (might be 8.3 though..... see below)
Ubuntu 9.04  and a bit (see below)

Postgres has only ever been installed for use with LSBM, the upgrade to
Ubuntu 9.10 didn't go too well, hence the "and a bit"! Postgres 8.2 and
8.3 are installed - I'm not sure how to find out which one is actually
being used. LSMB stared out at about 2.1.8 or something and has been
upgraded several times. It's Apache2 and the latest Firefox (which is a
bit flakey, but not relevant I think). 

However, I've always had this problem (but not so bad) since the dbase
got past about 20,000 lines (or records if you prefer) - it's just
started getting really irritating now, so I'm pretty sure it's a
LSMB/Postgres interaction problem related to the size of the dbase.


Cheers
Richard

Rich Shepard wrote:

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, beamends wrote:

"DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: duplicate key violates unique
constraint "partsvendor_pkey" at LedgerSMB/IC.pm line 529.

Error!

INSERT INTO partsvendor
(vendor_id, parts_id,
partnumber, lastcost,
leadtime, curr)
VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint "partsvendor_pkey"
"

Richard,

   I'm not a perl coder, nor a LSMB developer, but I've encountered this type
of SQL error in my approximate reasoning models. The problem is the existing
key and the solution is to write the SQL statement as:

   INSERT or REPLACE into ...

   If the primary key does not exist the new row is inserted; else if the primary
key exists, the column attribute values are replaced with those in the
statement.

   An alternative approach to accomplishing the same thing is to first "DELETE
from <tablename> where ..." followed by the INSERT statement.

HTH,

Rich


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Re: Problem With Saving Parts

2009-12-09T07:47:51Z

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, beamends wrote:

> I'm afraid hacking about with the LSMB code is rather beyond me - in my C
> programs I can cheat and stick it into a while(!successful) loop, but real
> SQL ......

Richard,

I was pointing out a SQL resolution of the primary key conflict. SQL is
completely different from procedural languages like C.

Anyway, I hope it can be quickly resolved by someone.

Rich

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Re: Problem With Saving Parts

2009-12-09T07:15:23Z

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 22:30 +0800, David Godfrey wrote:
> Just thought of another question.
>
> How many vendors do you have on the system?
> Possibly also relevant how many vendors do you have for each part?
>
> David G
>

Hi David,
we have 21 vendors, but only ever one for each part.

Cheers
Richard

> Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, beamends wrote:
> >
> >
> > > "DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: duplicate key violates unique
> > > constraint "partsvendor_pkey" at LedgerSMB/IC.pm line 529.
> > >
> > > Error!
> > >
> > > INSERT INTO partsvendor
> > > (vendor_id, parts_id,
> > > partnumber, lastcost,
> > > leadtime, curr)
> > > VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
> > > ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint "partsvendor_pkey"
> > > "
> > >
> >
> > Richard,
> >
> > I'm not a perl coder, nor a LSMB developer, but I've encountered this type
> > of SQL error in my approximate reasoning models. The problem is the existing
> > key and the solution is to write the SQL statement as:
> >
> > INSERT or REPLACE into ...
> >
> > If the primary key does not exist the new row is inserted; else if the primary
> > key exists, the column attribute values are replaced with those in the
> > statement.
> >
> > An alternative approach to accomplishing the same thing is to first "DELETE
> > from <tablename> where ..." followed by the INSERT statement.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Rich
> >
> >
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Re: Problem With Saving Parts

2009-12-09T07:13:40Z

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 22:28 +0800, David Godfrey wrote:

> Hi Rich and Beamends,
>
> I would be hesitant to suggest this path without chatting with Chris T
> or one of the other developers first.
> The code is, I think, correct.
> I suspect that there is a problem elsewhere, most likely with the
> underlying database.
>
> What version are you running, was the DB setup for this version from
> scratch, or was the DB migrated from an earlier version?
> Also do you have any modified code in LSMB?
> I guess it would make sense to ask what version of what OS you are
> running and also what version of postgresql.
>
> These answers may help the experts answer more quickly.
>
> One more question, how many items do you have in inventory?
>
> I have about three thousand items in mine, with no problems and know
> that there are others with many more.
> Until now I have not heard of any reports about this problem.
>
> One thing I have noticed though, if you try and define multiple "Make
> and Model" entries for a part you will always get errors (I think they
> are "duplicate key" errors, but it has been a while).
> Never had a problem with multiple vendors though.
>
> Regards
> David G
>

Fair comment...

it's

LSMB 2.1.18
Postgres 8.2 (might be 8.3 though..... see below)
Ubuntu 9.04 and a bit (see below)

Postgres has only ever been installed for use with LSBM, the upgrade to
Ubuntu 9.10 didn't go too well, hence the "and a bit"! Postgres 8.2 and
8.3 are installed - I'm not sure how to find out which one is actually
being used. LSMB stared out at about 2.1.8 or something and has been
upgraded several times. It's Apache2 and the latest Firefox (which is a
bit flakey, but not relevant I think).

However, I've always had this problem (but not so bad) since the dbase
got past about 20,000 lines (or records if you prefer) - it's just
started getting really irritating now, so I'm pretty sure it's a
LSMB/Postgres interaction problem related to the size of the dbase.

Cheers
Richard

>
> Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, beamends wrote:
> >
> >
> > > "DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: duplicate key violates unique
> > > constraint "partsvendor_pkey" at LedgerSMB/IC.pm line 529.
> > >
> > > Error!
> > >
> > > INSERT INTO partsvendor
> > > (vendor_id, parts_id,
> > > partnumber, lastcost,
> > > leadtime, curr)
> > > VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
> > > ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint "partsvendor_pkey"
> > > "
> > >
> >
> > Richard,
> >
> > I'm not a perl coder, nor a LSMB developer, but I've encountered this type
> > of SQL error in my approximate reasoning models. The problem is the existing
> > key and the solution is to write the SQL statement as:
> >
> > INSERT or REPLACE into ...
> >
> > If the primary key does not exist the new row is inserted; else if the primary
> > key exists, the column attribute values are replaced with those in the
> > statement.
> >
> > An alternative approach to accomplishing the same thing is to first "DELETE
> > from <tablename> where ..." followed by the INSERT statement.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Rich
> >
> >
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Re: Problem With Saving Parts

2009-12-09T06:30:36Z

Just thought of another question.

How many vendors do you have on the system?
Possibly also relevant how many vendors do you have for each part?

David G

Rich Shepard wrote:

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, beamends wrote:

"DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: duplicate key violates unique
constraint "partsvendor_pkey" at LedgerSMB/IC.pm line 529.

Error!

INSERT INTO partsvendor
(vendor_id, parts_id,
partnumber, lastcost,
leadtime, curr)
VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint "partsvendor_pkey"
"


Richard,

   I'm not a perl coder, nor a LSMB developer, but I've encountered this type
of SQL error in my approximate reasoning models. The problem is the existing
key and the solution is to write the SQL statement as:

   INSERT or REPLACE into ...

   If the primary key does not exist the new row is inserted; else if the primary
key exists, the column attribute values are replaced with those in the
statement.

   An alternative approach to accomplishing the same thing is to first "DELETE
from <tablename> where ..." followed by the INSERT statement.

HTH,

Rich


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Re: Problem With Saving Parts

2009-12-09T06:28:54Z

Hi Rich and Beamends,

I would be hesitant to suggest this path without chatting with Chris T or one of the other developers first.
The code is, I think, correct.
I suspect that there is a problem elsewhere, most likely with the underlying database.

What version are you running, was the DB setup for this version from scratch, or was the DB migrated from an earlier version?
Also do you have any modified code in LSMB?
I guess it would make sense to ask what version of what OS you are running and also what version of postgresql.

These answers may help the experts answer more quickly.

One more question, how many items do you have in inventory?

I have about three thousand items in mine, with no problems and know that there are others with many more.
Until now I have not heard of any reports about this problem.

One thing I have noticed though, if you try and define multiple "Make and Model" entries for a part you will always get errors (I think they are "duplicate key" errors, but it has been a while).
Never had a problem with multiple vendors though.

Regards
David G

Rich Shepard wrote:

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, beamends wrote:

"DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: duplicate key violates unique
constraint "partsvendor_pkey" at LedgerSMB/IC.pm line 529.

Error!

INSERT INTO partsvendor
(vendor_id, parts_id,
partnumber, lastcost,
leadtime, curr)
VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint "partsvendor_pkey"
"


Richard,

   I'm not a perl coder, nor a LSMB developer, but I've encountered this type
of SQL error in my approximate reasoning models. The problem is the existing
key and the solution is to write the SQL statement as:

   INSERT or REPLACE into ...

   If the primary key does not exist the new row is inserted; else if the primary
key exists, the column attribute values are replaced with those in the
statement.

   An alternative approach to accomplishing the same thing is to first "DELETE
from <tablename> where ..." followed by the INSERT statement.

HTH,

Rich


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Re: Problem With Saving Parts

2009-12-09T06:19:56Z

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 05:54 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, beamends wrote:
>
> > "DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: duplicate key violates unique
> > constraint "partsvendor_pkey" at LedgerSMB/IC.pm line 529.
> >
> > Error!
> >
> > INSERT INTO partsvendor
> > (vendor_id, parts_id,
> > partnumber, lastcost,
> > leadtime, curr)
> > VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
> > ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint "partsvendor_pkey"
> > "
>
> Richard,
>
> I'm not a perl coder, nor a LSMB developer, but I've encountered this type
> of SQL error in my approximate reasoning models. The problem is the existing
> key and the solution is to write the SQL statement as:
>
> INSERT or REPLACE into ...
>
> If the primary key does not exist the new row is inserted; else if the primary
> key exists, the column attribute values are replaced with those in the
> statement.
>
> An alternative approach to accomplishing the same thing is to first "DELETE
> from <tablename> where ..." followed by the INSERT statement.
>
> HTH,
>
> Rich
>

Hi Rich,
I'm afraid hacking about with the LSMB code is rather beyond me - in my
C programs I can cheat and stick it into a while(!successful) loop, but
real SQL ......

Cheers
Richard

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Re: Problem With Saving Parts

2009-12-09T05:54:34Z

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, beamends wrote:

> "DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: duplicate key violates unique
> constraint "partsvendor_pkey" at LedgerSMB/IC.pm line 529.
>
> Error!
>
> INSERT INTO partsvendor
> (vendor_id, parts_id,
> partnumber, lastcost,
> leadtime, curr)
> VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
> ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint "partsvendor_pkey"
> "

Richard,

I'm not a perl coder, nor a LSMB developer, but I've encountered this type
of SQL error in my approximate reasoning models. The problem is the existing
key and the solution is to write the SQL statement as:

INSERT or REPLACE into ...

If the primary key does not exist the new row is inserted; else if the primary
key exists, the column attribute values are replaced with those in the
statement.

An alternative approach to accomplishing the same thing is to first "DELETE
from <tablename> where ..." followed by the INSERT statement.

HTH,

Rich

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Re: Problem With Saving Parts

2009-12-09T05:16:53Z

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 03:15:23PM +0000, beamends wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 22:30 +0800, David Godfrey wrote:
> > Rich Shepard wrote:
> > > On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, beamends wrote:
> > > > "DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: duplicate key violates unique
> > > > constraint "partsvendor_pkey" at LedgerSMB/IC.pm line 529.
> > > >
> > > > Error!
> > > >
> > > > INSERT INTO partsvendor
> > > > (vendor_id, parts_id,
> > > > partnumber, lastcost,
> > > > leadtime, curr)
> > > > VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
> > > > ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint "partsvendor_pkey"
> > > > "

Just to stick in my $0.02: I have had this type of semi-random
"collision" problem (MS-SQL, however) due to hashed indices when the
hashed values collide. Not sure if it would help here, but you might
be a little careful about replacing stuff if they are using this sort
of index - a little double-check in SQL code might be in order..

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Problem With Saving Parts

2009-12-09T02:35:55Z

Hi all,
I've mentioned this before, but it is now becoming a real problem.

When Saving a part with the Vendor info filled in it is taking
increasingly long for for the save not to produce this error:

"DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: duplicate key violates unique
constraint "partsvendor_pkey" at LedgerSMB/IC.pm line 529.

Error!

INSERT INTO partsvendor
(vendor_id, parts_id,
partnumber, lastcost,
leadtime, curr)
VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint "partsvendor_pkey"
"

There seems to be no rhyme nor reason, sometimes it works first time,
every time for a while, other (now most) times it can take ages.

The record so far is 102 attempts, and just changing a spelling mistake
can now take 20 mins!

When saving a new part, the same happens but the part record is saved
without the vendor info - the part complete records then have to be
deleted manually.

The only trend is that it is getting much worse as the dbase grows!

If necessary I can supply a back-up of our dbase for testing - I was
hoping that I could hang on for 1.3, but this is becoming a real
problem.

Cheers
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Re: Should I wait for 1.3 if I want to wean off of QB by the end of the month?

2009-12-03T12:39:34Z

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, JP wrote:

> > Also, a word on whether the version numbers of LSMB have any correlation
> > with the version numbers of SL.

I can't answer the rest, but this was just such a disturbing thought that
I had to answer it: absolutely not! Not even a little.

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Re: Should I wait for 1.3 if I want to wean off of QB by the end of the month?

2009-12-02T16:32:36Z

I was hoping that was the answer :-)

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Pete Houston <ph1@...> wrote:

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:45:01PM -0800, JP wrote:
> > Also, a word on whether the version numbers of LSMB have any correlation
> > with the version numbers of SL.

None whatsoever!

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Re: Should I wait for 1.3 if I want to wean off of QB by the end of the month?

2009-12-02T16:00:39Z

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:45:01PM -0800, JP wrote:
> > Also, a word on whether the version numbers of LSMB have any correlation
> > with the version numbers of SL.

None whatsoever!

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Re: Should I wait for 1.3 if I want to wean off of QB by the end of the month?

2009-12-02T15:45:01Z

Sorry if this ends up a dupe, I sent before my subscription was verified and it bounced.

I am not fishing for a release date for 1.3. I am just curious if the latest stable will be close enough or simple enough of an upgrade to 1.3 when it is released to start testing and trialing now? I am a pretty small shop, with 2 people using QB... and that is the last thing that tethers me to a windows desktop or constantly running a vm. I am also moving my shop from WA state to AK state in the spring, where I will have a separate office and home (instead of detatched outbuilding for my shop), so I would really like to have a more mobile-friendly accounting package.

I guess all these points are moot if I load it up and don't like it :-) But I am assuming I will fall in love with LSMB like I did with Ubuntu and a dozen other mature FOSS packages.

Also, a word on whether the version numbers of LSMB have any correlation with the version numbers of SL.

Thanks!
JP

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Re: Invoice printing -default to PDF

2009-12-02T09:27:18Z

LedgerSMB also has hooks to preprocess query strings but setting default file formats are not immediately supported at present. Maybe we should look at adding such a setting in 1.4?

Best Wishes,
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Re: Invoice printing -default to PDF

2009-12-02T08:28:21Z

On 2 Dec 2009, at 15:23, Nicholas Thirkettle OSB wrote:

> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 4:58:26 pm Bob Miller wrote:
>>> Is there a way to make PDF the default instead of Postscript? Or is
>>> there a way to remove the Postscript entry from that drop-down menu
>>> completely?
> ...
> I'm not sure about LedgerSMB because we use SQL-Ledger and are
> considering
> LSMB, but SL has an option to select the default printer under
> Preferences on
> the menu. It might be in the same place in LSMB.

Yes, but PDF isn't a printer - the choice between PS & PDF is a second
drop-down to the right of the printer selection drop-down.

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Re: Invoice printing -default to PDF

2009-12-02T07:20:29Z

On Tuesday 01 December 2009 4:58:26 pm Bob Miller wrote:

> > Is there a way to make PDF the default instead of Postscript? Or is
> > there a way to remove the Postscript entry from that drop-down menu
> > completely?
>
> According to my html knowledge, the first <option> tag in a drop-down
> menu should be the default. I would suggest re-ordering the html code
> should get you what you want.
> I am not sure if this will work, but in the(my) /usr/share/ledgersmb/bin
> directory I find perl files that appear to write the html. I see
> postscript listed above PDF in a few different spots. So if it were me,
> I would make copies of the relevant files for backup and see if
> re-ordering the PDF/Postscript lines makes it better or worse.
> Good luck...
>
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I'm not sure about LedgerSMB because we use SQL-Ledger and are considering
LSMB, but SL has an option to select the default printer under Preferences on
the menu. It might be in the same place in LSMB.

Regards,
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Re: Invoice printing -default to PDF

2009-12-01T14:58:26Z

>
> Is there a way to make PDF the default instead of Postscript? Or is
> there a way to remove the Postscript entry from that drop-down menu
> completely?

According to my html knowledge, the first <option> tag in a drop-down
menu should be the default. I would suggest re-ordering the html code
should get you what you want.
I am not sure if this will work, but in the(my) /usr/share/ledgersmb/bin
directory I find perl files that appear to write the html. I see
postscript listed above PDF in a few different spots. So if it were me,
I would make copies of the relevant files for backup and see if
re-ordering the PDF/Postscript lines makes it better or worse.
Good luck...

>
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Re: Invoice printing -default to PDF

2009-12-01T11:55:01Z

On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 19:04 +0000, lrspares45 wrote:

> > Is there a way to make PDF the default instead? Or just remove the
> > Postscript
> > entry from that drop-down menu completely?
> >
>
> I found this too when upgrading to 1.18. Luckily the solution is simple
> - go to the PDF templates and a few lines down there is a right and left
> margin setting. I'm at home now so don't have it in front of me, but
> alter the right margin to get it to fit (I seem to remember changing
> 1.00 to 2.00 cm or something like that). You have to do it for each
> template, but once done make back-ups they don't get overwritten if you
> re-install.

Thanks for your reply.

The PDF invoice works fine as it is.

Is there a way to make PDF the default instead of Postscript? Or is
there a way to remove the Postscript entry from that drop-down menu
completely?

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Re: Invoice printing -default to PDF

2009-12-01T11:25:16Z

On 1 Dec 2009, at 19:04, lrspares45 wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 12:37 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
>> ...
>> When printing an invoice with LedgerSMB v1.2.17 we have noticed
>> that thePDFselection prints the invoices positioned properly on the
>> page, but thePostscript selection doesn't. (The address doesn't sit
>> in the rightplace tofit into a window envelope.)
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, it appears that Postscript is the default setting
>> and you
>> have to select PDF manually every time.
>>
>> Is there a way to make PDF the default instead? Or just remove the
>> Postscript
>> entry from that drop-down menu completely?
>>
>
> I found this too when upgrading to 1.18. Luckily the solution is
> simple
> - go to the PDF templates and a few lines down there is a right and
> left
> margin setting. I'm at home now so don't have it in front of me, but
> alter the right margin to get it to fit (I seem to remember changing
> 1.00 to 2.00 cm or something like that). You have to do it for each
> template, but once done make back-ups they don't get overwritten if
> you
> re-install.

Uh, there are separate PDF templates in 1.18??

In previous versions they just have a single .tex template that
produces both the .pdf and postscript versions. In such versions one
could surely manipulate the margins of the different versions using
LaTeX's ifpdf package.

Stroller.

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Re: Prospective User Questions

2009-12-01T11:15:38Z

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Chris Travers wrote:

> Just to clarify the problem with prepayments:
>
> The issue is that payments in LedgerSMB (following SQL-Ledger 2.6) end up
> going against the same AR/AP account as the invoice. For prepayments,
> this is not correct accounting because it mixes liabilities with assets.

Chris,

Just came back from a visit to my accountant to learn how she wants this
handled. The first invoice (that the client needed in order to make the
first retainer) gets backed out. The payment is then made to a specific
client/project without reference to an invoice.

At the end of the month, the client gets an invoice based on the number of
hours worked on the project, and the prepayment is applied. This means the
client either has a credit remaining (if not all pre-paid hours were spent
on the project that month) or owes for additional hours. This cycle
continues for the project duration.

If it was possible to produce a statement rather than only an invoice
there would be no problem. It would begin with the initial payment, time on
the project would then be detailed below it (reducing the unexpended
amount), and this could be continued for the life of the project or done
month-by-month.

Thanks,

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Re: Invoice printing -default to PDF

2009-12-01T11:04:02Z

On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 12:37 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:

> I originally posted this message on November 21 but since I haven't
> received any replies perhaps it got lost:
>
> When printing an invoice with LedgerSMB v1.2.17 we have noticed that the
> PDF
> selection prints the invoices positioned properly on the page, but the
> Postscript selection doesn't. (The address doesn't sit in the right
> place to
> fit into a window envelope.)
>
> Unfortunately, it appears that Postscript is the default setting and you
> have
> to select PDF manually every time.
>
> Is there a way to make PDF the default instead? Or just remove the
> Postscript
> entry from that drop-down menu completely?
>

I found this too when upgrading to 1.18. Luckily the solution is simple
- go to the PDF templates and a few lines down there is a right and left
margin setting. I'm at home now so don't have it in front of me, but
alter the right margin to get it to fit (I seem to remember changing
1.00 to 2.00 cm or something like that). You have to do it for each
template, but once done make back-ups they don't get overwritten if you
re-install.

Cheers
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Invoice printing -default to PDF

2009-12-01T10:37:56Z

I originally posted this message on November 21 but since I haven't
received any replies perhaps it got lost:

When printing an invoice with LedgerSMB v1.2.17 we have noticed that the
PDF
selection prints the invoices positioned properly on the page, but the
Postscript selection doesn't. (The address doesn't sit in the right
place to
fit into a window envelope.)

Unfortunately, it appears that Postscript is the default setting and you
have
to select PDF manually every time.

Is there a way to make PDF the default instead? Or just remove the
Postscript
entry from that drop-down menu completely?

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Re: Prospective User Questions

2009-12-01T10:16:11Z

Just to clarify the problem with prepayments:

The issue is that payments in LedgerSMB (following SQL-Ledger 2.6) end up going against the same AR/AP account as the invoice. For prepayments, this is not correct accounting because it mixes liabilities with assets.

Best Wishes,
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Re: Prospective User Questions

2009-12-01T09:24:05Z

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Bob Miller wrote:

> This sounds like pre-payments.

Bob,

Yup. That's what it is.

> Too my knowledge, for whatever that is worth, version 1.3 will support a
> pre-payment system, but the current version does not.

Oh. OK.

> This being said, I know at least some people have worked out a system for
> pre-payments, and the developers may be friendly to getting you patched up
> till the pre-payment system is in place...

I'll see how my accountant wants me to handle this in any case.

Thanks,

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Re: Prospective User Questions

2009-12-01T09:15:16Z

On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 16:05 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:

>
> Supposedly, SL should let me enter cash receipts not credited to an
> sales invoice. Then, in the time card module I enter times for each period
> spent on the project and, at the end of the month, generate a report and
> sales invoice from those time cards. The application should then apply the
> amount(s) received against the total time(s) expended and show either a
> credit or balance due. Will LSMB do this, too?

This sounds like pre-payments. Too my knowledge, for whatever that is
worth, version 1.3 will support a pre-payment system, but the current
version does not. This being said, I know at least some people have
worked out a system for pre-payments, and the developers may be friendly
to getting you patched up till the pre-payment system is in place...

>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
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Any ETA for 1.3

2009-12-01T03:54:54Z

Hi,

I notice 1.3 is in feature freeze but what is the official release date
at the moment?

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Prospective User Questions

2009-11-30T16:05:06Z

I've used SL for about 9 years, but it's started to get squirrelly on me;
it's just not working as well as it used to. Unfortunately, Dieter's taken a
bad approach to his user community by shutting down the mail list (there's
now a Web-based forum but the quality of help there is very low). A nice
fellow in India makes his living hosting and supporting SL. But, the
application seems to be more broken with each update.

If I can migrate the CoA, lists of vendors and clients, and similar
background, I can re-create this year's transactions from scratch within
LSMB. I believe there should be better support here.

My business is service, not products, manufacturing, distribution, or
retail so my needs are different from that of many folks. Most projects now
are paid in advance on an invoice so that's a simple transaction. Most
others are on a retainer basis (fixed fee per month) so those are simple
transactions, too. However, I have one project now where I receive a monthly
retainer, but need to send a statement showing details of hours billed
against amounts received.

Supposedly, SL should let me enter cash receipts not credited to an
sales invoice. Then, in the time card module I enter times for each period
spent on the project and, at the end of the month, generate a report and
sales invoice from those time cards. The application should then apply the
amount(s) received against the total time(s) expended and show either a
credit or balance due. Will LSMB do this, too?

Thanks,

Rich

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2 nd email, Need your advise , not as my first email

2009-11-30T14:34:20Z

Dear Christ,

I need your advice,

Chart information :

select id , accno , description from chart where id in (10045,10007,10024,10025,10033,10004);
id   | accno |        description
-------+-------+----------------------------
10033 | 4020 | Sales / Hardware
10045 | 5020 | COGS / Hardware
10004 | 1200 | Accounts Receivables
10007 | 1520 | Inventory / Computer Parts
10024 | 2310 | PST (5%)
10025 | 2320 | GST (5%)
(6 rows)

    When I have many invoices from many Ap for the same item.
    =================================================================================================================================================
select id , invnumber from ap where id in ('303040','303041','303042');

   id   | invnumber
--------+-----------
303040 | 1010
303041 | 1011
303042 | 1012
(3 rows)

select id , parts_id , trans_id , qty , allocated from invoice where parts_id =303044;

id   | parts_id | trans_id | qty | allocated
-------+----------+----------+-----+-----------
76634 |   303044 |   303047 | -1 |         0
76633 |   303044 |   303046 | -1 |         0
76632 |   303044 |   303045 | -1 |         0
(3 rows)
===============================================================================================================================================

   if I sold them in one AR invoice,

id   | parts_id | trans_id | qty | allocated
-------+----------+----------+-----+-----------
76632 |   303044 |   303045 | -1 |         1
76633 |   303044 |   303046 | -1 |         1
76634 |   303044 |   303047 | -1 |         1
76637 |   303044 |   303051 |   3 |        -3
(4 rows)

select id , invnumber from ar where id = 303051;
   id   | invnumber
--------+-----------
303051 | 11374
(1 row)

   I will have that in acc_trans:

select * from acc_trans where trans_id = 303051;
trans_id | chart_id | transdate | source | cleared | fx_transaction | project_id | memo | invoice_id | amount | entry_id
----------+----------+------------+--------+---------+----------------+------------+------+------------+--------+----------
   303051 |    10024 | 2009-11-30 |        | f       | f              |            |      |            |      3 |   132403
   303051 |    10025 | 2009-11-30 |        | f       | f              |            |      |            |      3 |   132402
   303051 |    10004 | 2009-11-30 |        | f       | f              |            |      |            |    -66 |   132401
   303051 |    10045 | 2009-11-30 |        | f       | f              |            |      |      76634 |     -5 |   132400
   303051 |    10045 | 2009-11-30 |        | f       | f              |            |      |      76633 |     -5 |   132399
   303051 |    10045 | 2009-11-30 |        | f       | f              |            |      |      76632 |     -5 |   132398
   303051 |    10007 | 2009-11-30 |        | f       | f              |            |      |      76637 |      5 |   132397
   303051 |    10007 | 2009-11-30 |        | f       | f              |            |      |      76633 |      5 |   132396
   303051 |    10007 | 2009-11-30 |        | f       | f              |            |      |      76632 |      5 |   132395
   303051 |    10033 | 2009-11-30 |        | f       | f              |            |      |            |     60 |   132394
(10 rows)

The program add the invoice id as you see

inventory_accno_id and expensive_accno_id = id of invoice that belong to AP.

except, When entry_id = 132397 , the program add the invoice id that belong to Ar.

From monitoring the code I found those 2 lines in IS.pm,

$ndx = $#{ @{ $form->{acc_trans}{lineitems} } };

# add invoice_id
            $form->{acc_trans}{lineitems}[$ndx]->{invoice_id} = $invoice_id;

The program do that for every line, so in COGS function, if the item came from one invoice that is mean :
         expenses_accno_id will has invoice id that belong to AP and
         inventory_accno_id will has invoice id for this item that belong to AR.

but If the item came from many ap invoices, That is mean one from the lines will have the ar invoice and the rest will have the invoice id that belong to AP.

I don't know depend on what the project do that. as you see on this line :
# add invoice_id
            $form->{acc_trans}{lineitems}[$ndx]->{invoice_id} = $invoice_id;

I will going to fix it, if I am wrong please tell me .

Best wishes,
Shaekir,

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2 nd email, Need your advise , not as my first email

2009-11-30T14:21:44Z

Dear Christ,

I need your advice,

    When I have many invoices from many Ap for the same item.
    =================================================================================================================================================
select id , invnumber from ap where id in ('303040','303041','303042');

   id   | invnumber
--------+-----------
303040 | 1010
303041 | 1011
303042 | 1012
(3 rows)

select id , parts_id , trans_id , qty , allocated from invoice where parts_id =303044;

id   | parts_id | trans_id | qty | allocated
-------+----------+----------+-----+-----------
76634 |   303044 |   303047 | -1 |         0
76633 |   303044 |   303046 | -1 |         0
76632 |   303044 |   303045 | -1 |         0
(3 rows)
===============================================================================================================================================

   if I sold them in one AR invoice,

id   | parts_id | trans_id | qty | allocated
-------+----------+----------+-----+-----------
76632 |   303044 |   303045 | -1 |         1
76633 |   303044 |   303046 | -1 |         1
76634 |   303044 |   303047 | -1 |         1
76637 |   303044 |   303051 |   3 |        -3
(4 rows)

select id , invnumber from ar where id = 303051;
   id   | invnumber
--------+-----------
303051 | 11374
(1 row)

   I will have that in acc_trans:

select * from acc_trans where trans_id = 303051;
trans_id | chart_id | transdate | source | cleared | fx_transaction | project_id | memo | invoice_id | amount | entry_id
----------+----------+------------+--------+---------+----------------+------------+------+------------+--------+----------
   303051 |    10024 | 2009-11-30 |        | f       | f              |            |      |            |      3 |   132403
   303051 |    10025 | 2009-11-30 |        | f       | f              |            |      |            |      3 |   132402
   303051 |    10004 | 2009-11-30 |        | f       | f              |            |      |            |    -66 |   132401
   303051 |    10045 | 2009-11-30 |        | f       | f              |            |      |      76634 |     -5 |   132400
   303051 |    10045 | 2009-11-30 |        | f       | f              |            |      |      76633 |     -5 |   132399
   303051 |    10045 | 2009-11-30 |        | f       | f              |            |      |      76632 |     -5 |   132398
   303051 |    10007 | 2009-11-30 |        | f       | f              |            |      |      76637 |      5 |   132397
   303051 |    10007 | 2009-11-30 |        | f       | f              |            |      |      76633 |      5 |   132396
   303051 |    10007 | 2009-11-30 |        | f       | f              |            |      |      76632 |      5 |   132395
   303051 |    10033 | 2009-11-30 |        | f       | f              |            |      |            |     60 |   132394
(10 rows)

The program add the invoice id as you see

inventory_accno_id and expensive_accno_id = id of invoice that belong to AP.

except, When entry_id = 132397 , the program add the invoice id that belong to Ar.

From monitoring the code I found those 2 lines in IS.pm,

$ndx = $#{ @{ $form->{acc_trans}{lineitems} } };

# add invoice_id
            $form->{acc_trans}{lineitems}[$ndx]->{invoice_id} = $invoice_id;

The program do that for every line, so in COGS function, if the item came from one invoice that is mean :
         expenses_accno_id will has invoice id that belong to AP and
         inventory_accno_id will has invoice id for this item that belong to AR.

but If the item came from many ap invoices, That is mean one from the lines will have the ar invoice and the rest will have the invoice id that belong to AP.

I don't know depend on what the project do that. as you see on this line :
# add invoice_id
            $form->{acc_trans}{lineitems}[$ndx]->{invoice_id} = $invoice_id;

I will going to fix it, if I am wrong please tell me .

Best wishes,
Shaekir,

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first 2 points - I need your advise

2009-11-27T08:28:09Z

Dear Chris,
       I found until now 4 points need from me to re modify in the Post_invoice function ?
       I need your advise:
               1- The first point:
                         In delete invoice function at IR.pm
                         I modified the code of this line to be :
                                  $query = qq|DELETE FROM ap WHERE trans_id = ?|;
                                  $query = "DELETE FROM ap WHERE id =?";

                2- The Second point:
                         A: When you sold item to the customer and you have stock in the inventory.
                          The regular : The invoice_id for inventory_accno_id in acc_trans table will be the invoice id for this item that belong to ar.
                                               The invoice_id for expenses_accno_id in acc_trans table will be the invoice id for this item that belong to ap.


                         B: When You sold item to the customer and you don't have stock in the inventory.
                             When you add AP invoice :
                                                 The post_invoice function , will add the item invoice id that belong to AP to the inventory_accno_id and expenses_accno_id in the acc_trans.

                          ine line 398 in ir.pm , I changed

                        $sth->execute(
                            $ref->{trans_id},   $ref->{inventory_accno_id},
                            $linetotal,
                            $ref->{project_id}, $invoice_id,
                            $ref->{transdate}, $ref->{transdate},
                        ) || $form->dberror($query);

                      to be

                        $sth->execute(
                            $ref->{trans_id},   $ref->{inventory_accno_id},
                            $linetotal,
                            $ref->{project_id}, $ref->{id},
                            $ref->{transdate}, $ref->{transdate},
                        ) || $form->dberror($query);

               my question:
                       I modified the code in case B to be as case A.
                       Is that OK. or that is not preferred.


Please advise me.
Best wishes,
Shaekir,

Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:03:19 -0800
From: chris.travers@...
To: ledger-smb-devel@...
Subject: Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Please, Advise me

Are you reposting a lot of invoices?

Technically, this is not recommended as it poses some other problems that have no agreed-upon solutions. Probably the best course of action is to figure out why this is required and see what we can do to eliminate that requirement for you.

Best Wishes
Chris Travers

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