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Those upgrading from a previous version need to go to http://depreciation.tripod.com/upgrading.html
for detailed instructions under symbol3.7.tar.gz

If you are downloading for the first time simply follow the steps in
http://depreciation.tripod.com/download_symbol.html

Electronic reporting for the Australian Tax Office has been upgraded to their version 7.4 for PAYG.

A bug in the email merge (which for spam avoidance does not work on the demo site) has been fixed.

SYMBOL is now being hosted at
http://www.symbolaccounting.com
where you can experience 24/7 an online demo thanks to Xen hosting and thanks to Computerworld for arragning this.
SYMBOL 3.6 is also ready for download.

This is an update to address issues in PostgreSQL 8. Not to be confused with users of Redhat 8 - they don't have to worry.

It was discovered that automatically generated cheques wouldn't generate un Ubuntu, which uses PostgreSQL 8.

After a few weeks of testing version 3.6 will be released.

Users upgrading from 3.4 only have to untar the download file as the database schema has not changed.

An interesting article by Computerworld as put SYMBOL on the radar screen at:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1504289875

During Western Australian business hours a live demo of SYMBOL can be experience at:
http://users.bigpond.com/glsc5/aload.html

This fixes a few overlooked scripts which used addresses. One very busy weekend.

If you are upgrading from 3.2 then read the instructions for Symbol 3.3

This has easier report querying and also separate fields for State and Country on addresses. Since this changes the database schema you will need to issue a few SQL commands when upgrading. If you are installing from scratch you don't need to run these commands from the psql command line.

alter table cards add column country text;
alter table cards add column state text;

You will also need to run the following perl script to take a lot of the legwork out of updating your addresses:... read more

SYMBOL 3.2 has been released and includes a new header report designed specifically for vlookup statements.

These spreadsheets in various formats showcase SYMBOLS reporting abilities accross a dimension, such as a series of grants for an NGO. Formats included are Planmaker2006, Gnumeric, OASIS, OpenOffice 1.0 and MS-Excel.

Windows users can use Winzip to decompress this file.

This fixes several bugs found in verison 3. A critical one where a previous year transaction could be overwritten by a current one if the same reference number from the same module was used.

The other more minor one was that some of the search options in Find Purchase Orders were not being displayed.

The code has also been made slightly more compact.

If you are trying to run SYMBOL from a windows SERVER then you need Perl5.6 and Edmund Mergles DBD::Pg module. (Perl 5.8 won't work)

If you are updating from a version lower than 3 you will need to run these two sql commands from psql <database> shell:
update accgrp set thaip=20 where thaip=19;
insert into accgrp (bsugrp,sugrp,accgroup,acctype,thaip,sect) values ('B/S','Liabilities','Current Liabilities','Credit Card',19,2);

If you are installing version 3 or higher you don't need to worry about this.

Credit Cards have been added as a new account group for the chart of accounts and quick links to Items and Accounts have been added to the transaction input scripts.

Ironed out bug which stopped manual posting to GST Accounts. Added functionality are links to pop up windows to add debtors/creditors in transaction entry scripts. Also added link for popup alocation in Cheques, Cyber payments and Receipts.

Sadly the ISP picked up on the free ADSL connection that I stumbled accross. Will see what I can do about this. In the meantime there is no online demo version.

This was a bug fix to stop duplicate reference numbers being issued for receipts, invoices, cyber payments and journals when two users accessed the same module to create a new transaction.

Finally, on the advice of friends and colleagues, I have decided to host on sourceforge. Version 2.5 of SYMBOL is ready for download. Installation instructions are at http://depreciation.tripod.com/download_symbol.html
and a live demo is available at
http://218.214.171.27/
Javascript must be switched on with pop ups enabled.
Should you have any problems email symbol.accounting@gmail.com