Release Goal
To improve integration with PDA devices such as Blackberry's, Apple iPhones, etc.. Basically, some of the subject lines on the tasks lists were not up to PDA simplicity so we made them better. Also, you can now edit the notes marker so that notes can come back to ACT! from the PDA via Outlook.

Fixed Issues

• No bugs have been reported for this software in the past 45 days!!! Quite amazing! And we have found none to speak of.

Improvements

• Better PDA specific synchronization of notes so that they are more legible and simpler.

To Upgrade.

There were quite a few modifications to the inherent indexing database so to upgrade, you will need to uninstall the current version and install the new version from the download links on our web site. This will not affect the licensing procedure for the software.

May 28, 2008: Release 11.7.x.00 - Major Upgrade

Release Goal
With this release we set to add more filters i.e. Input file and Lookup, as well as to enhance the Command Line Parameters so that users can have more control over the software's execution in addition to adding Outlook contact matching capabilities where users have the option of maintaining the Outlook contact database the same as a lookup/group/file without removing data from ACT!.

Fixed Issues

• One major issue was contact deletion when doing a process ALL contacts. The intelligent updater disabled contact deletion. That now works very well.
• Added non-Mapi contact processing for sites that have exchange with a non-mapi compliant interface (like BES)

Improvements

• Major Improvement. New Contact Filters and better command line parameters.

To Upgrade.

There were quite a few modifications to the inherent indexing database so to upgrade, you will need to uninstall the current version and install the new version from the download links on our web site. This will not affect the licensing procedure for the software.

April 8, 2008: Release 11.6.x.01 - Major Upgrade

Release Goal
We are finally reaching the end of the features development of ACT-To-Outlook Professional Advanced Edition. It gives us great pleasure to provide our customers with this release. We have created a background processing manager that allows you to control background synchronization. That is now part of the product and the background processor is fully functional. When you install the new version, make sure you reboot your machine so that the background processor gets started.

Fixed Issues

• A few minor pesky bugs background processing that caused the software to stop. Background processing now works like a charm.

Improvements

• Major Improvement. Added the background processor. It runs great now!

To Upgrade.

There were quite a few modifications to the inherent indexing database so to upgrade, you will need to uninstall the current version and install the new version from the download links on our web site. This will not affect the licensing procedure for the software.

March 28, 2008: Release 11.5.x.00 - Major Upgrade

Release Goal
The goal of this release is to provide an update to the Advanced Edition that makes subsequent updating of contacts and activities super fast. In the process of this development, we had to re-write how contacts are selected and processed. To our amazement, the rewrite boosted the speed of subsequent synchronizations many orders of magnitude i.e. from 20 minutes down to 15 seconds. . Actually, it has become so fast that we had to add informational statements to make sure that everything was being processed. To our amazement, everything works just fine. 

Fixed Issues

• Duplicate Checking. When converting to a populated Outlook Contact folder, the duplicate checking on first/last names was not working too well. It works great now!
• Contacts with empty name/company would generate an indexing error. This has now been fixed

Improvements

• Added another option to the contacts filter to only synchronize Calendar and Tasks.
• Major Improvement. Added Intelligent Updater to sync of ALL Contacts and to the Activities Sync. Once the first sync is run, all subsequent syncs use the intelligent updater. To our amazement, it  reduces sync times down to a matter of seconds. In our internal tests, synchronization of 13000 contacts and 4000 activities was clocked at 24 seconds!

To Upgrade.

There were quite a few modifications to the inherent indexing database so to upgrade, you will need to uninstall the current version and install the new version from the download links on our web site. This will not affect the licensing procedure for the software.

February 5, 2008: Release 11.4.x.00 - Minor Upgrade

Fixed Issues

• ACT! Activities with Multiple contacts were not being converted over properly with everyone related to the activities coming over. They work now.
• ACT! Activities synchronization was improved and works MUCH better.
• Fixed Journal Conversion for Notes/History associated to multiple contacts. Now all associated contacts come over.
• Attachments. Major modifications were made in the dealing with attachments for the Contact's body text and the Journal.

Improvements

• Added the capability for the user to filter out activity synchronization by Date so that old activities are not looked at.
• Added the capability for the user to filter out History/Notes by date so that old history items can be filtered out.
• Major Improvement. Modified the way we deal with attachments linked to history/notes. In the past, these items were embedded into the contact body text or Journal. Now, the path is displayed on the body text and a hyperlink is inserted to that you can open the attachment by clicking on the hyperlink. This is a much better way to deal with attachments since only the hyperlink is inserted into the contact's body text or journal which results in much smaller Outlook .pst files. This feature alone is worth purchasing the product.

To Upgrade.

There were quite a few modifications to the inherent indexing database so to upgrade, you will need to uninstall the current version and install the new version from the download links on our web site. This will not affect the licensing procedure for the software.

February 7, 2008: Release 11.3.x.32

Fixed Issues

• Fixed issue when converting contacts from ACT! to Outlook that a false reverse synchronization request was issued on contacts with body text modification. This no longer happens and it works fine now.
• Fixed issue of a an addition dot "." was added to filenames that were copied to a centralized attachments server. It works fine now.

Improvements

• Added the capability for the user to decide where calls should go i.e. either to the Calendar or to the Tasks folder.
• Activities (Calendar, Todo's, Calls and so on..) can now be filtered by date for transfer to Outlook i.e. you can now set a data and any activity that occurs or is created before that data does not transfer.

To Upgrade.

There were quite a few modifications to the inherent indexing database so to upgrade, you will need to uninstall the current version and install the new version from the download links on our web site. This will not affect the licensing procedure for the software.

January 28, 2008: Release 11.3.x.24

• Fixed issue of Private Contacts coming/not coming over to Outlook. That flag now works
• Fixed issue of an error being generated when we search for contacts in an existent contacts database in Outlook.
• Fixed issue with the creation of re-occurring events in Outlook. Now all ACT! re-occurring calls, todo's, and meetings come over.
• Fixed issue with manipulation of country and area codes for Europe. Those work fine now.
• Improved reporting of conversion statistics.
• Changed the evaluation so that you can now run the full program for a period of 15 days. However, none of the emails/phone numbers are synchronized.
• Enhanced the conversion of Attachments to the Journal. All Attachments are now converted and we added an option to centralize ALL the attachments in a destination folder. In addition, after the conversion is done, we list the attachments in the contact's body text. These attachments are 1-way conversions.
• Added a contact filter that allows one to only process private contacts.

Word from the field is that our synchronization is king! Thanx for your your input....

To Upgrade.

There were quite a few modifications to the inherent indexing database so to upgrade, you will need to uninstall the current version and install the new version from the download links on our web site. This will not affect the licensing procedure for the software.

January 22, 2008: Release 11.3.x.12

Quite a few things were fixed and improved:

• First and foremost, we made the evaluation to go much easier. You can convert and/or synchronize all contacts in the database for 15 days with a few restrictions that should have no effect on the evaluation itself. You can test synchronization of todo's, calls and meetings. In addition, you can sync all the contacts as well as companies.
• Fixed bug with ACT! 10 on retrieving Activities. All activities are now retrieved successfully.
• Fix issues with conversion of attachments for users. All Attachments are now converted properly.
•  Added the option to select the source of the attachments.
• Added the option of copying all the attachments into a centralized location
• Fixed bug with conversion of Contact phone numbers when the user wants ALL the phone numbers to come over with a country code.

To Upgrade.

There were quite a few modifications to the inherent indexing database so to upgrade, you will need to uninstall the current version and install the new version from the download links on our web site. This will not affect the licensing procedure for the software.

November 21, 2007: Release 11.0.0.0

New release with Full Synchronization Capabilities.