Contactizer Pro
- Version 3.6.3 | Release Date: 2008-06-21 | Download
Contactizer Pro 3.6.3 is a critical update that primarily improves overral stability. This update fixes a dozen of issues. Contactizer Pro 3.6.3 is highly recommended for all users of Contactizer Pro 3.6.x.
This update is free for all registered 3.x Contactizer users, and is 25 MB in size.
Note: This release is fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 (aka Leopard).
New Features
New preference to edit in a separate window, a newly created event just after drawing in the calendar view.
Improvements
The assistant is now opposing iCal import and iCal sync clearly.
Bug Fixes
A nasty crashing bug introduced in 3.6.2 when setting your computer to sleep/shutdown has been fixed.
Some column symbol may appear in the wrong column, in particular when removing a column.
The Task Quick Entry does not open a Finder or Safari window when closed.
The embedded documentation index has been rebuilt.
The TSV/CSV export plugin has been optimized and should not raise an exception.- Version 3.6.0 | Release Date: 2008-05-21 | Download
-[NEW FEATURE] iCal Multiple Calendars syncing with Contactizer Categories.
-[NEW FEATURE] New Leopard only Cover Flow View to browse your contacts. There are 2 possible modes: Photo or business card (default).
-[NEW FEATURE] New Toolbar to allow customization of toolbar items. There is a new "Quick Add" button to add the most common Contactizer items with rapid access. Use the View menu to customize the toolbar and show/hide the labels.
-[NEW FEATURE] New Task Quick Entry. By default pressing F5 key (may need "fn" key pressed on laptop keyboard) displays a panel to quickly add a new simple Task. This shortcut can be used even when Contactizer is not running. The panel is navigable using the tab key to allow very quick entry.
-[NEW FEATURE] Completely rewritten Yellow/White Pages module. Much more countries will be available in the following monthes.
-[NEW FEATURE] New Emailing Template manager. You can access the emailing template manager in the Window menu. You can now customize your invitation templates and use standard merging keys.
-[NEW FEATURE] New merge key panels. You can access much more fields and attributes, including the custom fields. You can access the Merge Key Panel in the Window menu.
-[NEW FEATURE] You can now drag Mail messages to Contactizer, this will act as if you dragged corresponding Contactizer email items. Press the option key to drag an entire Mail thread.-[ENHANCEMENTS] Custom Fields are now manageable during a tsv import.
-[ENHANCEMENT] Contact Custom fields are visible in the Details View.
-[ENHANCEMENT] Drag'n Drop incoherencies in the calendar view have been smoothed out
-[ENHANCEMENTS] Option (Alt) + click when contacts are selected now show the groups AND categories matching those contacts
-[ENHANCEMENTS] Crash Reporter now correctly gather crash informations on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
-[ENHANCEMENTS] Clicking Contactizer icon in the Dock displays Contactizer windows as they were previously. The main window is not always set above the others. "Bring All to Front" menu, makes the separate window appear in front.
-[ENHANCEMENTS] The updater window is now closed when you click the 'Download' button.
-[ENHANCEMENTS] Several User Interface changes to match the new Leopard Look.
-[ENHANCEMENT] Sync conflicts should happen less often.
-[ENHANCEMENT] A sync categories button is now available in the Sync Preferences to enable or disable the new multi calendar to categories sync
-[ENHANCEMENT] Resetting Sync in the preferences now immediately resets the sync history.
-[ENHANCEMENT] Pasting an event now paste it on the selected day instead of only duplicating the copied event.
-[ENHANCEMENT] A setting has been added to allow the month view to display the time of events.
-[ENHANCEMENT] The Communication Center module auto updates at midnight each day.
-[ENHANCEMENT] "New Email Message" menus now respect the setting set in the Preference Action Pane (Create a new email in your default email program, or creation a new email in Contactizer).
-[ENHANCEMENT] Clear messages cache is faster on Mac OX 10.5 Leopard.
-[ENHANCEMENT] Added possibilities to open email communications in Mail or in a separate window using the Option key when double clicking in the list.
-[ENHANCEMENT] New default settings, Default Window size matches MacBook's screen.
-[ENHANCEMENT] Added an option in Action event preferences to automatically quick edit an event that has been created.-[FIX] Fixes a crash when creating a task or an event immediatly after the app started, with sharing activated.
-[FIX] iCal calendars could disappear after a Contactizer Sync.
-[FIX] Fixes a crash when using embedded SMTP email sender.
-[FIX] Fixes a problem with Contactizer Helper regarding alarms.
-[FIX] Calendar Browsing was sometimes not synchronized with the mainview (1 day shifting)
-[FIX] Modifying a birthday date in separate window contact edition is correctly saved to the contact.
-[FIX] Event Templates are correctly applied when editing in the month view and separate window edition.
-[FIX] Dates format is reflected in the detail views
-[FIX] Calendar printing bugs fixed
-[FIX] A frequent error ("Duration is too small") has been fixed when importing chat logs.
-[FIX] "Make this my card" in Apple AddressBook is correctly handled in Contactizer.
-[FIX] Fixes many crashes related to iCal data or ics file importing.
-[FIX] Fixes a bug in the Contacts actions preferences (default actions were not saved)
-[FIX] Fixes a bug with Project step contextual menus.
-[FIX] Contactizer main window was ordered back when launching the app in some cases.
-[FIX] Some Contactizer sharing crashes have been fixed.
-[FIX] 00:00 AM has been replaced with 12:00 AM
-[FIX] Many calendar browsing problems have been fixed.
-[FIX] Fixed a bug when deleting a project resource in a separate window edition.
-[FIX] Communication Center list fonts now respect the size set in the Appearance preference pane.
-[FIX] Changing a Project process from the Details View did not always changed the project process when ending the edit.
-[FIX] You can now drag Contacts from the Data Picker to the Contact Relation tab in edition window.
-[FIX] Lots of memory leaks fixed.
-[FIX] A major bug regarding tasks and events browsing in month mode has been fixed. Some events were not displayed in month mode when they were in other modes.
-[FIX] Fixed a bug regarding files attached to a Fax or Mailing communication. Editing such a communication did clear out the attached files!
-[FIX] Fixed a bug regarding contacts printing templates that were not entirely saved.- Version 3.5.7 | Release Date: 2008-01-26 | Download
Features & Improvements
- [NEW] Emails are now displayed with a "read" status (Leopard only).
- In Projects, an url can have a scheme different than "http://".
- In the Task Module, the projects listed in the pop up button in Sources list are now alphabetically sorted.Bug Fixes
- Fixes a bug where switching from Event Month view to Event Week view distort the drawing and rendered it unusable.
- Communication center smart folder view share the same contextual menu that the standard counterpart (Add as resource to Project is now available).- Version 3.5.2 | Release Date: 2007-11-27 | Download
- Improvements
- Contactizer Helper will not load data if Contactizer application is not installed on the machine.
- Adding an alarm to a task with no start or end date displayed a message that corrupted the saving. You are now informed when there is not such dates in the reminder pane.
- You are informed when another instance of Contactizer is running and inform that you should quit. This fixes a crash many of you have when upgrading and launching the new version while the old version is still running.
- Projects resources are expanded by default.- Bug Fixes
- Apparences preferences are now correctly applied to Events, Communications and Projects.
- Adding an alarm to a task with no start or end date displayed a message that corrupted the saving. You are now informed when there is not such dates in the reminder pane.
- Import events/tasks from iCal in Leopard now list calendars correctly.
- Alarms had wrong locations in the Detail View.
- Multiple pages label printing.
- In rare cases, Contactizer could freeze at launch.
- A syncing bug has been fixed for Leopard regarding tasks with attendees.
- Sharing now works in Leopard.
- Better handling of projects in the Task module.
- Backups now really backups your projects... Take care, making backups in Tiger can't be restored in Leopard. This is due to the newer Apple contact database format.
A problem with Sound Alarms has been fixed.
- Fixes an Apple bug regarding some "Store model" problems on Leopard (x2).
- Fixes an Apple bug regarding some "Multipe Validation Error" problems on Leopard.
- Fixes a bug regarding completion status and deleted recurring tasks and events that may reappear when browsing.
- Task follow up now should work correctly.
- Tablecolumns are manually resizable in Leopard. It was working in Tiger.
- Fixes a bug regarding Project Process edition with empty process name.
- The Contactizer Helper (to manage alarms when Contactizer is not launched) now runs autonomously.
- Restoring your data in Tiger works as expected.
- Some minor localization errors have been fixed.
- French About Box text is now correctly located.
- A problem regarding communications printing has been fixed.
- A frequent crash has been fixed, when resizing the Sources view in the Communication Center module.- Version 3.5.1 | Release Date: 2007-11-21 | Download
****** LEOPARD COMPATIBILITY ******
-[FIX] Apparences preferences are now correctly applied to Events, Communications and Projects.
-[FIX] Adding an alarm to a task with no start or end date displayed a message that corrupted the saving. You are now informed when there is not such dates in the reminder pane.
-[FIX] You are informed when another instance of Contactizer is running and inform that you should quit. This fixes a crash many of you have when upgrading and launching the new version while the old version is still running.-[ENHANCEMENTS] A new bug report system has been implemented. In the help menu, as new debug submenu has been added to:
- Install a small debug tool to help you make better bug reports. As a beta tester, you should install this tool. It will help us find bugs in your console log.
- Access the console log much more conveniently from Contactizer. Each time you find a bug or a strange behaviour, please open the console log this way and send it by email with explanations or using the online form (accessible from the Help menu too!)
Those enhancements have been made to increase the value of your feedback and to help you get used to send the Console log with each of your bug reports, so please use it.-[FIX] A syncing bug has been fixed for Leopard. You should reset sync history anyway using iSync -> Preferences -> reset sync history (may need to wait a little for it to be enabled).
-[FIX] A frequent crash has been fixed, when resizing the Sources view in the Communication Center module.
-[FIX] Import events/tasks from iCal in Leopard now list calendars correctly.
-[FIX] Alarms had wrong locations in the Detail View.
-[FIX] multiple pages label printing.
-[FIX] A crash occured when resizing the application-[ENHANCEMENTS] added more options in Sync Preferences, to sync Events, Tasks or both.
-[FIX] In rare cases, Contactizer could freeze at launch.
-[FIX] A syncing bug has been fixed for Leopard regarding tasks with attendees
-[FIX] Sharing now works in Leopard! Whouhou!
-[FIX] Better handling of projects in the Task module.
-[FIX] Backups now really backups your projects... Take care, making backups in Tiger can't be restored in Leopard. This is due to the newer Apple contact database format.
-[CRASH] Our number one crash should be fixed... maybe.-[ENHANCEMENTS] Better Leopard look when the windows are not key windows.
- Version 3.5 | Release Date: 2007-11-07 | Download
### Common ###
- Massive optimizations when drawing views. Window resizing is now much smoother.
- Category panel is now resizable
- Contextual menu to empty the trashes
- Calendar browsing has been unified in a menu.
- Dates edition in the calendar views are simpler and more robust
- Details view text fields supports standard keyboard shortcut to move the cursor or change selection.
- Details view can be quickly hidden to widen central view area.
- Occurences and sources of occurence have different symbols for rapid recognition in the tableviews. A button has been added to quickly open the source of occurences.
- Alternate row color now works.
- Many crashes have been fixed.
- New Data Picker which combines People, Tasks, Events and Communications data.### Projects ###
Projects is a new module in Contactizer 3.5.
- Projects groups Contactizer items together and allows you to organize them following a process.
- Ability to manage projects and track their progress
- Links any Contactizer item to the project and use them as resources. You can assign role to contacts.
- Custom fields support to customize your projects### Contacts ###
- Set as primary in the details view
- Custom fields for contacts
- Details view improvements (bold fields for primary value)
- Make customized labels available for all contacts.
- New Merge Keys Panel: this panel allows you to get the merge keys used for documents, emailings and prints.
- New Merge Keys: chat, rating, addresses, custom fields, groups, categories and many more...
- New Print: print has been completely redesigned, major feature is that you can save your print as a print template so you can define custom listing, contact card, envelops or labels.
-> list: you can add/remove properties columns and define the percent width of each column. You can set various colors for borders, alertnate rows and background.
-> card: all properties can be printed
-> envelop : display settings have been improved, the sender and recipient text areas are filled using the contact merge keys
-> label : display settings have been improved, the sender and recipient text areas are filled using the contact merge keys
- Improved csv, tsv export.
- Bluetooth Dialing has been vastly enhanced, in particular for Sony Ericsson mobile phones. Much more phones are now supported.
- All contacts informations can now be displayed in column. Use the top right corner menu to customize the displayed columns.
- Relations are now much more reliable to find the related persons.
- Skype status is more reliable and much faster.
- Show Activities enables you to quickly have a look to the data related to a given contact.
- Merge with Numbers documents.
- Added SIP dialing support, both using XLite and a generic sip:// protocol plugin### Tasks ###
- Cancelled status has effects on tasks: stops the related alarms, display settings
- Attendees -> Contacts: related contacts with none role are no more considered as attendees. Send invitation is purposed only when you have attendees with role.
- Tasks can be filtered by Project in the Sources view.
- Task follow-up has been remasterized to be more accurate and useful.
- Tasks picker
- Calendar navigation mode enhancements
- Priority set enhancements (contextual menu, resort bug)
- Percent Complete is now changed to match the status.
- New Print: print has been completely redesigned, major feature is that you can save your print as a print template so you can define custom listing, event card/pretty listing, week or month prints.
-> card/pretty listing: all properties can be printed, you can set one event per page (card) or a list of event (pretty list)
-> list: you can add/remove properties columns and define the percent width of each column. You can set various colors for borders, alertnate rows and background.### Events ###
- Month calendar view design improvements
- Drag and drop enhancements
- Event picker
- Added tasks panel related to event module view
- Duration can be set when editing event
- Show Current Time option.
- Event templates in the Preferences
- New Print: print has been completely redesigned, major feature is that you can save your print as a print template so you can define custom listing, event card/pretty listing, week or month prints.
-> card/pretty listing: all properties can be printed, you can set one event per page (card) or a list of event (pretty list)
-> month view: you can print your events in a month view.
-> week view: you can print your events in a week view.
-> list: you can add/remove properties columns and define the percent width of each column. You can set various colors for borders, alertnate rows and background.### Communications ###
- New Print: print has been completely redesigned, major feature is that you can save your print as a print template so you can define custom listing, event card/pretty listing, week or month prints.
-> card/pretty listing: all properties can be printed, you can set one event per page (card) or a list of event (pretty list)
-> list: you can add/remove properties columns and define the percent width of each column. You can set various colors for borders, alertnate rows and background.- Version 3.5.0 | Release Date: 2007-11-07 | Download
### Common ###
- Massive optimizations when drawing views. Window resizing is now much smoother.
- Category panel is now resizable
- Contextual menu to empty the trashes
- Calendar browsing has been unified in a menu.
- Dates edition in the calendar views are simpler and more robust
- Details view text fields supports standard keyboard shortcut to move the cursor or change selection.
- Details view can be quickly hidden to widen central view area.
- Occurences and sources of occurence have different symbols for rapid recognition in the tableviews. A button has been added to quickly open the source of occurences.
- Alternate row color now works.
- Many crashes have been fixed.
- New Data Picker which combines People, Tasks, Events and Communications data.### Projects ###
Projects is a new module in Contactizer 3.5.
- Projects groups Contactizer items together and allows you to organize them following a process.
- Ability to manage projects and track their progress
- Links any Contactizer item to the project and use them as resources. You can assign role to contacts.
- Custom fields support to customize your projects### Contacts ###
- Set as primary in the details view
- Custom fields for contacts
- Details view improvements (bold fields for primary value)
- Make customized labels available for all contacts.
- New Merge Keys Panel: this panel allows you to get the merge keys used for documents, emailings and prints.
- New Merge Keys: chat, rating, addresses, custom fields, groups, categories and many more...
- New Print: print has been completely redesigned, major feature is that you can save your print as a print template so you can define custom listing, contact card, envelops or labels.
-> list: you can add/remove properties columns and define the percent width of each column. You can set various colors for borders, alertnate rows and background.
-> card: all properties can be printed
-> envelop : display settings have been improved, the sender and recipient text areas are filled using the contact merge keys
-> label : display settings have been improved, the sender and recipient text areas are filled using the contact merge keys
- Improved csv, tsv export.
- Bluetooth Dialing has been vastly enhanced, in particular for Sony Ericsson mobile phones. Much more phones are now supported.
- All contacts informations can now be displayed in column. Use the top right corner menu to customize the displayed columns.
- Relations are now much more reliable to find the related persons.
- Skype status is more reliable and much faster.
- Show Activities enables you to quickly have a look to the data related to a given contact.
- Merge with Numbers documents.
- Added SIP dialing support, both using XLite and a generic sip:// protocol plugin
### Tasks ###
- Cancelled status has effects on tasks: stops the related alarms, display settings
- Attendees -> Contacts: related contacts with none role are no more considered as attendees. Send invitation is purposed only when you have attendees with role.
- Tasks can be filtered by Project in the Sources view.
- Task follow-up has been remasterized to be more accurate and useful.
- Tasks picker
- Calendar navigation mode enhancements
- Priority set enhancements (contextual menu, resort bug)
- Percent Complete is now changed to match the status.
- New Print: print has been completely redesigned, major feature is that you can save your print as a print template so you can define custom listing, event card/pretty listing, week or month prints.
-> card/pretty listing: all properties can be printed, you can set one event per page (card) or a list of event (pretty list)
-> list: you can add/remove properties columns and define the percent width of each column. You can set various colors for borders, alertnate rows and background.
### Events ###
- Month calendar view design improvements
- Drag and drop enhancements
- Event picker
- Added tasks panel related to event module view
- Duration can be set when editing event
- Show Current Time option.
- Event templates in the Preferences
- New Print: print has been completely redesigned, major feature is that you can save your print as a print template so you can define custom listing, event card/pretty listing, week or month prints.
-> card/pretty listing: all properties can be printed, you can set one event per page (card) or a list of event (pretty list)
-> month view: you can print your events in a month view.
-> week view: you can print your events in a week view.
-> list: you can add/remove properties columns and define the percent width of each column. You can set various colors for borders, alertnate rows and background.### Communications ###
- New Print: print has been completely redesigned, major feature is that you can save your print as a print template so you can define custom listing, event card/pretty listing, week or month prints.
-> card/pretty listing: all properties can be printed, you can set one event per page (card) or a list of event (pretty list)
-> list: you can add/remove properties columns and define the percent width of each column. You can set various colors for borders, alertnate rows and background.- Version 3.1.4 | Release Date: 2007-05-06 | Download
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