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New Features
Version 3.6
- Support Quick View in Google Desktop Open Contacts
Plug-in.
- Support Gmail and Gmail Notifier through Shell Mail
function.
- Search any field in the standard search window or the
quick search window. In the standard search window, if a field value is
defined without field name, the program will search any field with that
value.
- Support multiple users on the same computer using
their own database, or sharing the same database.
- Remember locations of the Quick View window and
the Photo Viewer.
- You may decide whether to show the Quick View
window and the Photo Viewer at startup.
- After deleting contacts in a contact list, the
contact list will refresh and will keep current positions of items.
- When linking an organization to a contact, you may
define the name of the relationship, such as manager, CEO, director or owner
etc.
- Main menu replaces the top buttons with drop-down
menus.
Version 3.5
- Options to remember which category is accessed last
time, and whether the access is recursive. This is handy if you want to
access contacts of a category at startup.
- For portable application, you may set a flag (DisableCOM)
in the INI file to tell the program not to publish COM interfaces to the
host machine.
- In a contact Edit window, you may paste multiple
lines of text to create new fields. This is handy when you copy/past
multi-line address or other contact info from a text viewer like NotePad or
Web browser.
- Introduce field action types: "person" and "org". The
field value of a field associated with action "person" will be assumed to be
an individual contact in the database, and the action will be to locate and
edit/view the contact. Likewise for action "org". This is handy for fields
like "Assistant" who could also be a contact in the database.
- When importing from MS Outlook, names in the Contacts
field will also be imported
- Quick search for phone fields, email fields and
address fields.
- The built-in Image Viewer was modal. Now it is a
floating window, so you don't need to close it before navigating to next
contact. And, if the next contact contains photos, the viewer will be
updated with photos. In addition, if Quick View window is present, the Image
Viewer will also be updated when clicking on next contact.
- In the Quick View window with advanced style sheet,
you may edit current shown contact by clicking on the Edit link.
- Default files folder. To centralize files with Open
Contacts or better support portable applications, it will be handy to put files
associated with contacts into a central location. When you drag a file from
the default files folder to a contact's file/image field, the field value
will be the relative path of the actual file path.
- Export contacts or phones to HTML file or Internet
Explorer. In addition, you can export with custom XSL in order to have your own
custom HTML output.
- In the Quick View window with advanced style sheet,
you can view the associated categories of the contact. When clicking on a
category link, either the People list or the Companies will refresh showing
contacts of the category.
Version 3.3
- In either of the Edit Contact windows, if there are
sections hidden below, shortcuts of sections will appear. When you click on
a shortcut, the relevant section could be scrolled up to be visible. This is
handy when you have many many sections for some contacts. This feature is
optional.
- Map Services.
- The tab position of the contact edit windows could be
altered.
- Advanced Quick View. With advanced xsl applied, you
could click on http, email, phone, skype links in the Quick View window to
launch appropriate actions. This is optional.
- Show count in the contact list windows.
- In Quick View with advanced options, links to
companies and associated contacts are supported.
- When the Search window is activated, the search
results could be used for creating email with multiple recipients, and for
exporting data.
- Search Birthday.
- The date format will be ISO format (yyyy-MM-dd) by
default, though you could choose using Windows short date format.
- Status bar that shows hints.
- When importing CSV files with only full name and
without surname and given name, OC will try to analyze surname, middle name
and give name.
Version 3.2
- The import functions for Ms Outlook, Outlook Express,
Eudora, Mozilla/Thunderbird, vCard and XML are unified now. When importing,
you will be able to decide to update or rename contacts with duplicated
names existing in your OC address book.
- With importing XML files, synchronizing your own
personal contact info among your close contacts is easy.
- Provide Quick View window, which allows you to
quickly view contact details in customizable format. Press F10 to launch the
window, when you single-click on a contact in a contact list, you can view
the details. In addition, if the lock checkbox is checked, the content will
be locked, regardless whether you clicking on the other contacts. This is
handy when you try to copy/paste a little details from one contact to the
other.
- Add Email Launcher, which provide shortcuts to
different Email client programs. And the Launcher support Mozilla
Thunderbird and Portable Thunderbird.
- The template for importing Mozilla address book is
improved.
- The XML scheme of storing contacts is upgraded to
version 1.1. V3.2 is still be able to read XML file created by lower
versions of OC.
Version 3.1
- Provide COM interfaces for 3rd party software
developers to develop extensions of Open Contacts.
- Support tray icon. Go to the Options window to enable
this feature.
- When you input a person name without surname, for
example, "Jack", both surname and given name will become "Jack". When you
view contacts in the Name format, you will see "Jack"; and when you view in
the "Surname, Given Name" format, you will see "Jack, Jack". This will make
sure the Initial J could appear in the initial grid.
- Provide more comprehensive support for importing
Mozilla address books. If a contact has no name, then the Email address will
become the name, and the surname.
- When importing from Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora,
Mozilla/Netscape and vCard, the names of failed items will be copied to the
clipboard, so you can paste them to any text editor to review.
- When printing reports, if people are sorted by
surname, the the printouts will also be sorted this way.
Version 3.0
- Hints for linked organizations and associated contacts.
For example, if a person is linked with 2 organizations, the organizations tab will
have text "organizations (2)".
- In the Categories Management window, you can change
the location of any category, by moving a category before the other
category, or making a category become a subcategory of the other category.
- You can drag and drop files into a File field or a
Image field. The contents of the file paths will be copied to the
highlighted edit box. Any field which action type is "file" or "image" could
support this feature.
- In the Contact Edit window, when a contact has at
least image field, a button "P" will appear in the command bar, which will
launch a built-in image viewer to view images one by one.
- To modify a Notes field in a larger window, simply
focus on the Notes, then press "Alt + M". A large window will pop up for you
to edit contents.
- The database structure is upgraded to support more
functions and increase speeds.
- Colors of windows parts are customizable.
Version 2.9
- By right-clicking on a category, you may view
contacts of the category and all its subcategories recursively.
- Interact with Skype. You may add predefined field
"Skype". When you select a Skype field, the Action button will allow you
start a Call or start a Chat. You need to run Skype and logon first.
- In the Edit Company window, you may associate the
company with selected people in the People list.
- Import contacts from Eudora. During importing, you
may create category for each book of Eudora's address book, or you may let
Open Contacts create a category for each book automatically with the book
name.
- Provide Quick View mode. In the Options window,
you will see a checkbox "Show Contact details when single-clicking on
the contact list". If checked, in either the People list
or the organizations list, when you click on a contact or press cursor key,
contact details will be shown right away. However, either the Edit Person
window or the Edit Company window will not have focus. This feature is handy
for you to have a quick view on a list of contacts. If un-checked, you need
to double click on a contact to view details, and the Edit Person window or
the Edit Company window will have focus. Apparently, when you try to link a
department to a company, you should make sure that this checkbox is
un-checked.
- Provide Wizard to import contacts from Netscape/Mozilla/Thunderbird.
- Convert selected people to organizations. This feature is
handy for importing contacts that were categorized as organizations in legacy
address books. And you may convert selected organizations to people if mistakes
were made.
- When importing from MS Outlook, you have an option of
letting Open Contacts import categories of each contact. The categories will
be created at the first level of the category tree.
- Provide predefined fields "File" and "Image".
Version 2.8
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Copy field contents of current section to clipboard.
The field contents are separated by line breaks.
- Refresh contact lists after importing contacts.
- In the People List, names could be
sorted by surname. And,
the initials Panel could be refreshed with initials of surnames.
- Add shortcuts for creating any predefined section in
the Edit window.
- In the Edit window, when you try to add a predefined
section that already exists, you will have an option to add fields of this
predefined section anyway.
- Print selected contacts. The layouts of printout
include Basic, Basic with Notes and Custom. With custom layout, you may
define which sections/fields will be printed.
- In the Edit Window of people, you have an option of
showing or hiding fields Surname, Given Name and Middle Name.
- In the Search window, you may search people only or
organizations only. And you can define categories of selected contacts of the
search results.
Version 2.6
- After adding a contact, the contact list of people or
company will refresh to reflect the change.
- You can move a field up or down, and move a section
up or down.
- Export contacts into Excel (Xls) files, with
predefined mapping template. This feature is handy when you want to export
info to other information systems or print cards using applications like
Avery DesignPro.
Version 2.5
- When defining categories of selected contacts, you
will have an option of keeping existing categories of each of the contacts.
- Export contacts into CSV files, with predefined mapping
template. This feature is handy when you want to export info to other
information systems or print cards using applications like Avery DesignPro.
- Before importing contacts from MS Outlook, you may
customize the section names through the Options window.
- Import from Outlook Express or WAB file.
- For any of the import methods, you will have an
option to drop them into categories during importing.
- Provide better support of Email addresses of Exchange
type while importing contacts from MS Outlook connecting to MS Exchange.
Version 2.3
- In all previous versions, when you add a contact, Open
Contacts will add two predefined sections automatically. With version 2.3,
you may defined which predefined sections will be added when adding a
contact. To define such settings, please go to the Options window, and
select either the "New Person" tab or the "New Company" tab.
- The method of importing CSV files is much improved.
Now you have an intuitive way of defining the mapping between the columns of
CSV files and the data fields of Open Contacts.
Version 2.2
- Export an entry into indent text.
- Export an entry into an XML file, and import an XML
file with the same schema.
- In the Options window, you may change the location of
default address book file.
- Immediate supports for multiple users in Local Area
Network.
- Add predefined field "File", which could store file
link, like "c:\mydoc\ok.doc", "\\remotecomputer\thisfolder\ok.doc" or "file:///c:/thisfolder/ok.doc"
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Version 2.1
- Keyboard shortcuts are supported for most frequently
used functions.
Version 2
- You will be able to input contact info in multiple
languages even with English Windows.
Version 1.5
- Each section may has a Notes field.
- In the Search window, you may search by the Notes field of any section.
- Copy Email addresses to clipboard.
Version 1.3.2
- Support inserting sections to any location.
- When searching contacts, you can define field 1 and field 2.
Version 1.3
- Support the concept of primary Email address. When a contact has a few
Email addresses, the primary one will be used by default, unless you
specifically click on an Email address.
- You may create Email to all listed contacts, or selected contacts in the
list. If you are using MS Outlook, the Email addresses of selected contacts or
all listed contacts could pass to the address fields of MS Outlook.
- After adding a new field, the drop-down list of predefined fields will
popup so you may select a field name or key in a new field name right away.
Version 1.2
- In the Edit window of a contact, when you click on an edit box defined as
type date, a date picker will popup for inputting a date.
- In the Search window, if you select a date field to search, you will be
able to define a period between two dates. For searching birthdays of people, you may even
ignore year.
- In the Tools menu, the backup function and the restore function are added.
- You may defined your own predefined fields with validation rules and
actions.
- In the Edit window of a contact, keyboard shortcuts are added for
mouse-free operation.
Version 1.1
- Import contacts from CSV and vCard.
- Provide integration with MS Outlook. Email address could pass to
the To field, the CC field and the BCC field of current Email item of Outlook.
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