vtiger

[philip]

Hi,

After much delay vtigercrm 4.2.4 has been released.

This is the first community driven release, so a big thanks goes out to all the people involved in making this happen. Our Special Thanks to MFedy K and Allan Bush.

This is mostly a bug fix release, but it does mark the first release using the new SVN/Trac system which helps us harness the power of the community contributions and track issues and their fixes so everyone can help out. The trac system can be seen here: http://vtiger.fosslabs.com

A list of fixed bugs can be seen using the trac ticket system here:
http://vtiger.fosslabs.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/query?status=closed&milestone=4.2.4&order=priority

A full changelog can be seen trough the trac svn log here:
http://vtiger.fosslabs.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/log/vtigercrm/tags/vtigercrm-4.2.4?action=stop_on_copy&rev=6885&stop_rev=&mode=follow_copy&verbose=on

vtigercrm 4.2.4 can be downloaded here:

http://www.vtiger.com/download/vtigercrm-4.2.4.exe
http://www.vtiger.com/download/vtigercrm-4.2.4.bin
http://www.vtiger.com/download/vtigercrm-4.2.4.tar.gz
http://www.vtiger.com/download/vtigercrm-phpdocs-4.2.4.zip

For a new installation simply extract the files into a directory accessible through your apache setup then point your web browser to that directory on your website and follow the installation instructions. Software you'll require is apache (1.3.x or 2.x) with php (4.3+, no 5.x support yet) and mysql (4.x).

You can post any issues or suggestions at http://vtiger.fosslabs.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/newticket


UPGRADING

If you are upgrading from a previous version of vtigercrm first backup all data then follow the instructions for the appropriate version below:

4.2.3:
- No database changes are need if you are using a seccessfull installation.
- If tables were only partially created for you using an earlier version please wipe your database and try with 4.2.4, your problems should be solved.
- To save your current configuration copy the config.php file from your old installation to config.inc.php in the new installation. You'll also have to edit the config file as follows:
- change the following variable names in config.php

from:
$dbconfig['db_host_name'] =
$dbconfig['db_user_name'] =

to:
$dbconfig['db_hostname'] =
$dbconfig['db_username'] =

- If your 4.2.3 installation has previously been upgraded from an earlier release there is one database modification missed in pervious upgrades you will want to make manually:
alter table wordtemplates drop primary key;
alter table wordtemplates change filename filename varchar(100) not null;
alter table wordtemplates add column templateid integer(19) primary key;


4.2.2 (aka 4.2 patch2):
- Apply the 4.2.3 patch as per: http://forums.vtiger.com/viewtopic.php?t=4166
- Then follow the instructions for a 4.2.3 upgrade.


4.2.1 or 4.2:
- Apply the 4.2.2 patch as per: http://forums.vtiger.com/viewtopic.php?t=2903
- Then follow the instructions for a 4.2.2 upgrade.


Philip

[nietzsche]

Great work guys, finally the long awaited 4.2.4 is here, is there gonna be a new version of the outlook plugin also with this version? Cuz the one lastly released still doesn't work with this version of vtiger....
Everything is looks great though, upgrading from a previously release work without a charm :)

[Simon]

Hi all,
i am a new user to Vtiger, i just download the VCRM (Vtiger CRM) 4.2.4 and using it, i found that still have bug in this version. The following are details:-

1. when creating a new event in module activity, the 'send notification' is still function error while my setting is configurated already.

'Mail Error : Please check your outgoing mail server configuration in Settings->Outgoing Mail Server Configuration OR MailId for the present user is not Configured'

2. when creating a sales order directly from a quote, it contains bug too. if you follows below step to create a sales order:-
-create a quote using [New Quote], and save it
-then open [Export To PDF] to view the quote in pdf
-then create sales order directly from quote using [Create Sales Order] above the detail view of that quote and save
-then the bug occur

3. cant view module Quote

'Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in C:\Program Files\vtigerCRM4.2.4rc2\apache\htdocs\vtigerCRM\include\database\PearDatabase.php on line 440'

[Bushwack]

Hi Simon,

Thanks for your feedback.

1. Email notification can be tricky to get right and that error message will come up if anything goes wrong.
- make sure the email settings are configured correctly for both the server (Settings->Outgoing Mail Server Configuration) and the current user (My Account->List Mail Server)
- ensure the vtiger user who is assigned to the activity (that is the one who will be getting the email) has a valid email address entered in their user settings
- ensure the active vtiger user has a valid email address entered in their user settings
- make sure the activity has a description
- check your vtigercrm.log file for more diagnosing information

2. I'm unsure what the bug is. When I reproduce your steps I don't see anything obviously wrong immediately.

3. This would be ticket #1281, this is probably the solution to your 2nd issue as well.

Please feel free to post bugs using the trac ticket system: http://vtiger.fosslabs.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/newticket

[Simon]

hello,
thks for reply my problem. i am also not sure where is the problem too because i have try it in different computer with the source file http://www.vtiger.com/download/vtigercrm-4.2.4.exe, actually i am using the VCRM 4.2.3 now, and the configuration is same as in VCRM 4.2.4, but it is working fine in VCRM 4.2.3 for the email function as i mention, so i think is not problem of my configuration. Below is my vtigercrm.log file, hope can track the problem. thks very much.

[Simon]

sorry, below is the source file of vtigercrm.log

[Devis]

The sql "alter table wordtemplates add column templateid integer(19) primary key;" is incorrect, please replace with "alter table wordtemplates add column templateid integer(19) unsigned auto_increment primary key;"

[Dominik]

I don't know if you know it.
In ...\modules\Contacts\Contact.php
are two old (wrong) lines (Line 34):

require_once('vtiger_logger.php');
$vtlog = new vtiger_logger();

I assume the correct lines are:
require_once('vtigerlogger.php');
$vtlog = new vtigerLogger();

[Bushwack]

Dominik wrote: I don't know if you know it.
In ...\modules\Contacts\Contact.php
are two old (wrong) lines (Line 34):

require_once('vtiger_logger.php');
$vtlog = new vtiger_logger();

I assume the correct lines are:
require_once('vtigerlogger.php');
$vtlog = new vtigerLogger();

I'm not seeing this.

Are you sure you're using the files from 4.2.4 because earlier versions reference vtiger_logger but it's not in this release.

[Dionysos]

This error is in the installation file of the release 4.2.4 that I just downloaded and installed today.

you must manually modify the Contact.php file as mentionned by Dominik.

Correction of the installation file will be appreciated.