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An ubuntu package for 0.9.3 Release Candidate.
Hello world!
As a result of my bad luck, my development machines died in this year (and the end of the 2009). That is the reason for the 0.9.3 release delay.
I have managed to make an ubuntu package (.deb) for ubuntu 10.04 amd64. This package is not perfect, and maybe it misses some dependencies. I want to note that i have no experience in making .deb packages, it is made using an automatic builder.
Said that, i can release the package to the wild.
You can read the changelog to see what’s new.
Update:
After installing the .deb, install the mysql server/client as needed ( if multiple POS terminals are going to use a single database, only install mysql server on one computer, and mysql client on all). And then you can create the database using the file included in the package, installed at /usr/share/kde4/apps/lemon/lemon_mysql.sql . Run the script as described in the wiki. If you updated lemonpos, then you may want to update your database, instead of running lemnon_mysq.sql, run the fix script if you update from version 0.9.2 or 0.9.1.
There are two PDF documents installed at /usr/share/doc/lemonpos/ on two folders, one for english and other for spanish.
If you got an error when installing the package, see the error detail, maybe some dependencies are not satisfied.
The dependencies for the package are:
New version is cooking…
Hi,
There is a Release Candidate for the persa branch in the git repository, also there is a string freeze for translators. In the next week, the new version (0.9.3) will be released, with bug fixes and improvements.
The directions to get it are on the wiki
New Home!
LemonPOS has a new home.
Also, there is a new release, the 0.9.2, that was not announced here.
The new site was also announced by Guillaume on his blog that is aggregated on planetkde, this brings a new package of the latest release, this time for archlinux. Thanks realitygaps for packaging, it is found on the AUR Repository:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35805
This also revives an old controversy about the name of the project. And I think its time to post about the name here.
The origin of the name for the POS is the fruit which is the main regional product of my state (Colima, México), specially of the Tecomán area…
Mexican Lemon
“THE CAPITAL WORLD OF THE MEXICAN LEMON”
One of the typical fruits of Colima is Lemon, citric brought from Europe, but it is registered botanically as Mexican Lemon. With few more then 19,000 hectares, Colima State occupies the first place in its production. It has kept this relevance since the end of the XIXth century when the Comala Municipality and Tecomán already exported it monthly to San Francisco, California. In the fifties the citricultors of Tecomán Valley signed a contract with Golden Citrus Juices Inc of Florida, in order that the lemon juice and essential oil were sold to them, multiplying for it the packing and industrialization plants. They make good use of this fruit, from leaf oil is obtained, from the skin jam is made and pectins are obtained and certainly the juice, of which diverse uses are given.
Source: http://www.visitacolima.com.mx/english/destinos/playas/playas.htm
lemonPOS 0.9 Released!
I have released the 0.9 version of lemonPOS.
There are new features like:
- CUPS printers support for small tickets (for thermal printers)
- Groups/Packs of products
- Special Orders (custom products)
- New printed reports on squeeze admin tool
- User Roles (multiple admins, supervisors)
- Lock Screen
- Suspend/Resume sales
The complete changelog is here
You can get the sources from sourceforge project page. We are waiting for each distribution packagers to make the new precompiled packages for lemonPOS.
0.8 Released
New release 0.8 is named persa.
This is an early release due to the situation I live now. I decided to release it as is because i will be offline in my house, and will look for a connection outside from time to time.
Update: I have gotten a paypal account, as some people suggested, and now i can receive donations. Here is the link:
Donate
Release 0.7.3 and starting new features
Yesterday was released the 0.7.3 version with some fixes.
From now, Im starting to incorporate new features that users requested. This requieres some big changes to the database structure, and starting at SVN revision 285 I have introduced new tables that will replace some fields from the products table. So I advice you to use SVN revision 284 or the 0.7.3 release. The SVN always has new code that im testing and may not always work as it should -now it has a floating toolbar for product filters that does not work-.
The big change Im working is to support different stores with a single stock managment from which a product could be sold from a different location -store,warehouse-. Also, a product could have peculiarities that differentiate from the same product, such as color and sizes, having the same code -and price,cost,etc-.
So, there are good things to come, stay tunned.
mailing list, trac and releases
I have released 0.7.1 and 0.7.2 and do not post about. These versions fixes a couple of bugs reported by users, there is a new release coming soon with another fixes.
I have setup a mailing list for lemonpos in sourceforge, the list info page (for subscription) is here:mailing list
Also, I decided to use trac instead of tracker for bug reports and feature requests. Of course trac also provides a timeline view -from svn commits-, roadmap and source -svn- browse. For bug reports and feature request create new tickets. Go trac
And of course, the wiki is here.To edit the wiki, you need to be a sourceforge user -registered- (i have not test it with another account, someone comfirm this), i cannot enable edit for anonymous -sourceforge limitation-.
Version 0.7 released!
After some days doing checks -i found a crash- finally i have release the 0.7 version.
I want to thank David Plater for reporting the bug at database-creation-script and Biel Frontera for his contributions to this version.
There are new features and bug fixes as shown in the changelog:
General:
– Added Catalan translation (ca.po).
Lemon:
– BUGFIX: regexp for payment input (1…20, now only one ‘.’ is allowed)
– BUGFIX: ticket Alignment done (printTicket) [patch by Biel Frontera]
– BUGFIX: added a missing i18n at line 1392 [patch by Biel Frontera]
– BUGFIX: At search items, when doubleclicked on an already inserted product, the search panel is not closed.
– BUGFIX: Double clicking on any product in shopping list that is sold by pieces is not incremented.
– Improvement: ENABLED Cash Drawer openning. Added an option to enable at configuration.
Can someone test this? I dont have a cash drawer.
– Improvement: Transaction cancel now saves cashout, substract client points, restore stockqty for sold products.
Also does not allow ticket cancelation on already canecelled tickets, and when there is not enough cash in drawer.
– Improvement: Changed the way to search items with the priceChecker; now an ‘enter’ is requiered, resulting an improved
usability when using a barcode reader.
– Improvement: Dont close purchase dialog on return pressed on any widget to improve usability for barcode reader.
– Added Feature: support for item qty in code input. Example: 10×123456 means 10 units of the product which code is 123456.
– Added Feature: Now in every transaction items and its price/discount are saved in the database
to preserve the data at which they were sold. [patch by Biel Frontera]
– Added feature: one more filter to product grid filters: most sold products [by Biel Frontera]
– Added feature: Reprint Ticket [Adapted from Biel Frontera code ]
– Added feature: Change sale date (to register old sales that were not registered before) [Adapted from Biel Frontera code ].
– Added feature: Cash-Out. To take out money for payments at the POS.
– Added Feature: Now lemon does not quit if not connected to mysql, a config dialog for database is shown.
– Added Feature: A low level cash in drawer alarm. A config option for showing the alert and minimum value.
– Added Icons: cash-out, re-print ticket, balance.
Squeeze:
– BUGFIX: Preferences disabled/enabled when requiered.
– BUGFIX: Spanish Translation fixed for the filter ‘show only not empty transactions’.
– BUGFIX: PurchaseEditor changed focus to empty fields when entering ‘Items Per Box’ qty. This is giving the
impression of not allowing more than 1 digit at the qty. [thanks for the report to Dave Plater]
– Added Feature: New report for cash-outs.
– Added Feature: New field in the offers editor to allow calculation of offer-percentage with the price entered
So now offers can be calculated with price or percentage [by Biel Frontera]
– Added Feature: Now squeeze does not quit if not connected to mysql, a config dialog for database is shown.
Database:
– New TransactionItems table, adapted code at finishCurrentTransaction() and others [ by Biel Frontera ]
– Changed collates from ‘utf8_spanish_ci’ and ‘latin1_general_ci’ to ‘utf8_general_ci’.
Azahar:
– BUG FIX: at SQL quieries: getAlmostSoldOutProducts,getTop5SoldProducts…
– Added some methods for future use at squeeze, regarding new tables and fields. [by Biel Frontera]
New release, 0.6.1 version!
The 0.6.1 version is now available at sourceforge download page.
Plots and piecharts
Here is the changelog:
CHANGELOG FOR LEMONPOS VERSION 0.6.1 (SVN revision 198)
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Hotest new stuff:
– Qick-View Plot reports [Welcome screen – Quick Information]. Just information on sales, profit, most sold products and low stock.
– Transactions and Balances table viewer (Without filters).
General
– Introducing the new azahar class to provide all database access.
– Code cleaning completed (generating the new azahar class).
– New offers system, with date start and date end.
– Created three new icons (categories, offers, price-checker).
– Low security mode.
– Azahar code improved (removed some for/while unnecessary loops, some missing values when updating data). Thanks to Biel Frontera from Spain, whom found the bugs and sent me the patches.
– Adding terminalnumber field for balances.
Squeeze:
– BUG FIX: Newly created categories not appearing in products filter’s combobox.
– BUG FIX: Categories now can be deleted.
– New filters for products (offers dates – by diferent ways).
– Graphic bar for discounted percentage of a product at the offers’ table view.
– A purchase action, to check-in stock purchases.
– Qick-View Plot/pie-chart reports [Welcome screen – Qick Information]. Just information on sales, profit, most sold products and low stock.
This may have some bugs (in fact, it has).
– Added login.
– Added style support.
– Implemented a new left menu bar.
– Changed the way to insert a category.
– Changed the way to insert a weight or measure.
– Spanish Translation (es.po) Updated.
– Low Stock Alert min and max values (used for piechart for now).
– Added one more filter for Products (almost sold-out items).
– Added viewing product list as grid/table at your option. This for better view when filtering.
– Added basic Transactions table-viewer (just a list with transactions, with filters)
– Added basic Balances table-viewer (just a list with balances, no filters yet)
Lemon:
– BUG FIX: now lemon stores sold units and date last sold at each sale.
– BUG FIX: A workaround for the oxygen bug for login/password dialog.
– BUG FIX: automatic showGridView button’ checked state is now working as expected.
– BUG FIX: ticket# validator When cancelling a ticket let enter no other than 0’s.
– BUG FIX: Disabled action “Start Operation” even if action is cancelled by te user. This prevented to start operations.
– BUG FIX: An issue was detected when testing with KDE 4.2, ticket dialog was not shown.
– Spanish Translation (es.po) updated.
– Improved loginwindow appearance, changed password dialog background.
– Improved login background, including lemon version.
– Added and themed a Price Checker for consulting product prices without adding to the list.
– Low Stock Alert min and max values (used at search)
– Low security mode (do not ask passwords).
– Saving balances on quit.
– Saving terminal number of each balance.
– Adding a configuration option for the time showing the ticket dialog on screen.
Database:
– Removed old sample data.
– Added database creation script to the instalation, installed in /usr/share/apps/lemon/
or /usr/local/share/apps/lemon/ depending on your system and configuration;
This will help ubuntu package’s users
– Added terminalnum flied to balances table (of course to database creation script).
– Adding new tables to save strings for pay-types, transactions-types, transactions-states.
– Adding an upgrade script, to upgrade your database from 0.5 to 0.6 version of lemon POS.
– Changing transaction state ids to start at 1 (not at 0). Mysql refused to insert a new record with 0 in the id. All code related was changed too. If you have a populated database with old transactions types ids, change all id=0 to 1, id=1 to 2, id=2 to 3.
Release 0.5
Version 0.5 has been released.
Includes a fix to a crash when mysql was not running, the improved UI for the main window, the filter for offers and the validation of dates for offers.
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