Major update for our addons

Stephen Lemaire — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:17:00 +0200

Act! 2009 will be there soon and our addons have been upgraded to support this new version.

ACT! 10.0.3 Available

Stephen Lemaire — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:47:00 +0200

The following items listed below identify new features and important corrected issues in the 10.0.3 release:

Mail Merge

Improved usability when using e-mail mail merge. Mail merge will use the primary email address field and if one cannot be found, it will look the personal email address. If there is not a personal email address, it will use the first custom email address it can find.

Microsoft® Excel Integration

The task list can be exported to Excel using a task bar icon or a right mouse button click menu command.

Printing Address Books

All contact details are printed on the same page using any address book template.

Report Templates

Contact Report template property “HideOnEmptySubReports” now defaults to “No” so that contact details are printed even if the contact does not have activities, notes, history or opportunities.

Activities/History/Notes

Activity details were reset to blank when rescheduling an activity from the activity conflict alert dialog.
Clear alarm button did not clear all selected alarms, only the first alarm was cleared.
Activities scheduled with another user did not roll over.
Updating activities with Outlook did not respect date range filter when dealing with recurring activities.
You can now reschedule conflicting activities without losing the details captured in the activity.
Drag & dropping activities within an activity series prompt to update activities that are within the series.
The regarding field saves when clearing an activity.
The start times for an activity displays the appropriate 24 hour time when users are on a 24 hour clock.
In some cases when updating a previous database to ACT! 10.0, alarms for old activities became active again.

Microsoft® Outlook E-Mail Integration

Improved usability when sending e-mail message by clicking into an e-mail address field. A new message is opened which is no longer minimized to the task bar.
When using the “Next e-mail” menu item in Outlook with Microsoft Word as the e-mail editor and using the “Attach to ACT! contact” feature, it always attached the first message instead if the current message.
E-mail messages that were attached from Outlook to ACT! using the “Entire message as attachment” option could not be opened in ACT! if the Outlook message had a Follow Up Flag set.

Opportunities

Users could not use the tab key to navigate to the next field after entering “$” into the opportunity cost or price field.

Database Synchronization

Improvements of file synchronization engine to account for conflict checking, 0 byte files and security issues.
Synchronization no longer fails with an error message “Synchronization has failed. Server Error Description: Incorrect syntax near ' AS DEFAULT VALUE, '. Contact your administrator for assistance.” when the default field value contains an apostrophe..
Reduced the time to synchronize file attachments between an ACT! host database and an ACT! remote database significantly, what used to take hours now takes minutes.
Supplemental files like templates and layouts were unable to be removed during sync.
Calendar “Global” Events were deleted after synchronization.

Security and Administration

Duplicating a contact did not retain a contact’s security setting if it was limited to particular users or teams.
The preference for security was not always retained when creating a contact from a company record.
Customers were unable to register and activate behind a Proxy server.
Some customers were unable to register their Premium software when using a dual access serial number.
Users can backup and restore databases which result in a backup files that is larger than 4 GB.
In some cases, users were unable to create new layouts in 10.0.2.
Setting multiple font settings in preferences caused an error in the application.

Other

ACT! no longer looses focus to other Windows applications when certain actions like looking up a company or scheduling a follow up activity from the clear activity dialogue are performed.
In some cases, setting the default phone format to include area code caused some numbers from the phone number to drop.
Mapping fields to Excel documents in the Documents tab did not work in Excel 2007.

Link to complete liste of changes: Knowledge Base
How to Download and Apply the ACT! by Sage 2008 (10.0.3) Service Pack? Follow this procedure in the KB: Knowledge Base

Be sure to download the good update depending your version of ACT. You’ll find your exact version in "Help » About ACT!" Menu.

Check for updates

Stephen Lemaire — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:32:00 +0200

All our addons get an new method to check if there is a new version online. Update your addons now to get this new feature!

New version for UrCounter

Stephen Lemaire — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:38:00 +0200

The new version of Urcounter (1.0.5.0) is arrived! The subentities are now available (subgroups and subcompanies). Urcounter is still free, download it now!

HotFix 10.0.2.1

Stephen Lemaire — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:31:00 +0200

Here are the main issues who are fixed :

Data fields do not always refresh after performing a contact lookup. This causes data to be saved incorrectly when moving through contacts.
File Synchronization Performance (Provide an 83% file sync performance enhancement)
Synchronization Time-out occurs if Subscription list has been modifiedRestoring a Sync Remote database does not properly set the SQL Server Database Options

You'll be able to download this hotfix and find all the fixes here

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Major update for our addons

ACT! 10.0.3 Available

Check for updates

New version for UrCounter

HotFix 10.0.2.1