<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the help! Sorry for all the dumb questions and hand holding. <div><br></div><div>That did the trick. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again, much appreciated. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 1:17 PM, Charles Sprickman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spork@bway.net" target="_blank">spork@bway.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br>
<br><div><span class=""><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 7, 2018, at 2:06 PM, Brian Mine <<a href="mailto:bbooker45@gmail.com" target="_blank">bbooker45@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_7507264244497846286Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Hi Nathan, <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks for your help with this. Unfortunately I'm still stuck. I tried it on a test/dummy account as:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">freeside-daily -d date --date='+1 month' <font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">+%m/1/%y freeside 012.</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">That tried to pass off
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">+%m/1/%y as the user. If you would kindly</span></span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">point out my rookie error it'll be much appreciated. </span></span></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>You want to execute the date command, so put backticks (`) around it.</div><div><br></div><div>For example:</div><span class=""><div><br></div><div>freeside-daily -d `date --date='+1 month' <font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">+%m/1/%y` freeside 012</span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></font></div></span><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">That will execute the command between the backticks.</span></font></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Charles</span></font></div></font></span><span class=""><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Thanks!</span></span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></span></font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Apr 7, 2018, 11:22 AM Nathan Kennedy <<a href="mailto:nathan@nkent.us" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">nathan@nkent.us</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>On Sat, 2018-04-07 at 13:51 +0000, Brian Mine wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex">We bill on the 1st of the month. How do we set freeside-daily to generate the invoices around the 25th of the previous month?</blockquote><div>Hello Brian,</div><div><br></div><div>You need to run freeside-daily with the -d flag and pass the appropriate date to it. You can do this using the date command, for example:</div><div>date --date='+1 month' +%m/1/%y returns a date showing the first of the next month.</div><div><br></div><div>You also need to schedule things properly in your freeside users crontab so on every day but your billing day it runs normally and on the billing day it runs freeside-daily normally and then the freeside-daily with the -d flag defined.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div><span><pre>-- <br></pre><div>Nathan Kennedy</div><div>Contracted Professional IT</div><div>(360) 637-1090</div><div><a href="https://www.nkent.us/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.nkent.us/</a></div></span></div></div>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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