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Contactizer Pro Changelog

What's new in Contactizer Pro 3.8.16

Mar 18, 2013
  • Better performances.
  • Various issues fixed.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.8.15 (Oct 9, 2012)

  • Improvements:
  • Support for OS X 10.8 Moutain Lion. Contactizer 3.8.15 supports Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard up to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on Intel and PowerPC machines.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Mountain Lion start issue fixed.
  • Various AddressBook issues fixed.
  • Many 10.7 and 10.8 graphical issues fixed.
  • Calendar subscription issues fixed.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.8.14 (Oct 14, 2011)

  • Improvements:
  • Better Instant Messaging support with iChat multiple nicknames.
  • Revamped Backup Restorer. Now use Apple recommended technique to restore contacts. Lion compatible.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • The Role popup menu in project's process view can't be opened.
  • Fix a crash during CalDAV subscription refresh.
  • The chat actions (text, voice, video) were not always enabled when both Skype and iChat buddy were available.
  • the chat actions (text, voice, video) were not always enabled when both Skype and iChat buddy were available.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.8.13 (Sep 23, 2011)

  • Improvements:
  • Full 64 bits support for Intel 64 bits machines (Core 2 Duo and i3, i5, i7). Leads to better general performances.
  • Support for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. Contactizer 3.8.13 supports Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard up to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion on Intel and PowerPC machines.
  • Added CalDAV support (Apple Mobile Me Calendars, Google Calendars, Yahoo Calendars) to subscriptions (thus, as read only). Full CalDAV support (read/write/sync) is planned for the future.
  • Much better subscription performances.
  • Tasks and Events subscriptions are now visible in the Contact module in the Tasks and Events tabs in the bottom bar.
  • Contacts can now be dragged from the data picker or Apple AddressBook to task and event attendees list.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.8.12 (Feb 28, 2011)

  • Features:
  • Added a plugin "Phone Amego" for iPhone dialing.
  • Improvements
  • Emailing many attendees was very slow and sometimes even freeze.
  • You can now always open the Map search result in your web browser from the action menu. Then you can access Google Street View and other specific features.
  • Maps in Contactizer now resize automatically.
  • Clearing message cache is faster and displays a progress indicator.
  • QuickLook support in Activities tab of separate Contact windows.
  • Added a new preference to customize background color of categorized events in Month calendar view.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fix a bug when a row was selected and you double clicked the list header.
  • Separate window edit mode crash bug fixed.
  • Tasks and Events list may not be complete in the Contact module in the bottom tabs.
  • Quit via the Dock menu now works as expected. Quitting Contactizer when logging out/restarting now works as expected.
  • Some occurrences of events may disappear after app relaunch (did not affect tasks).
  • Found a workaround to iOS sync bug, where events entered on iOS did not synced to Contactizer, but to iCal only. This is an Apple bug, fixed in the next iOS 4.3 release.
  • Fixes a freeze when waking up the machine from sleep (related to alarms).
  • Printing projects works on 10.5 (aka Leopard).
  • Printing contacts sometimes did not print categories.
  • Fixes some Map searches due to invalid encoding.
  • Preventing Contactizer access to the Keychain (not recommended) does not lead to a freeze.
  • The automatic shifting of overdue tasks message now only appear once.
  • The automatic shifting of overdue tasks correctly pushes modifications to the Apple Sync Services.
  • Scrolling steps of processes with many steps now scroll as expected.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.8.11 (Oct 27, 2010)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fix a potential issue when the application is launching.
  • Projects have been converted to an iPhone / iPad compliance format.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.8.10 (Oct 22, 2010)

  • Bad key shortcut with the e-mail templates collection view has been fixed.
  • Project's steps now offer a more optimal px length.
  • Today's color is now correctly reflected in the Calendar month View.
  • Contactizer embedded Store is now ready for european boxed version.
  • A performance issue should be fixed in the template sending window with hundreds of attendees.
  • Tab key in Date fields is now coherent into the Details View.
  • Event's timeblock has now a graphic symbol for Notes.
  • Default custom fields could now be deleted.
  • Custom types for tasks are now editable.
  • Event's timeblock now includes the location field.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.8.9 (Sep 21, 2010)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Starting a personalized bulk email campaign from a group was buggy.
  • Increased the contrast marking Today in the calendar views.
  • Fixed a bug with large font in Communication module.
  • The country field was not autofilled when editing a contact in separate window.
  • Several problems that can occur during the launch of the application have been fixed.
  • Fixed a rare hang when finishing the Assistant.
  • Fixed several bugs with the new personalized bulk email system.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.8.8 (Aug 30, 2010)

  • New Feature:
  • Emailing creating & sending windows have been completely rewritten & redesigned.
  • Improvements:
  • Comments's timestamp menu has been improved. User can now choose between various date formats for stamping new comments.
  • A column "Has Comments" has been added in all tableview's lists.
  • The Communication Center columns are now configurable like other modules. Sender/recipients columns have been added by default.
  • Inverse relationships between contacts are partially managed. This management only occurs in the separate window edit, not in the Quick Edit mode.
  • Panels (Categories, Datapicker, etc) will open automatically at launch if they were already open during previous session.
  • User can now refresh subscribed calendars from a contextual menu.
  • Status bar in the Task module has been improved.
  • Built-in HTML documentation has been updated for English & French.
  • The "No Category" filter/smart group representation has been standardized all around the app.
  • The projects/steps filters in the Contact module have been replaced with Projects nodes and steps subnodes. This design will be applied to the other modules later.
  • New icons & animations.
  • Faster launch time. Several parts of the app have been made compatible with multi-core machines.
  • When a date is selected in the calendar view in the Event module, new events start date are set to this date.
  • Faster contacts search time.
  • Added a top filter "Not Started".
  • Added an icon to represent subscribed items in the list view.
  • Tasks in events are now sorted case insensitively.
  • Improved contrast for the "Today" selection in calendar views.
  • "Days before due" column is now correctly sorted numerically.
  • Command C/Command V now works for pictures in the identity picture viewer.
  • Dayboard does not sort events by date correctly and does show cancelled tasks/events
  • Country textfield of a new contact is automatically set to the default address format country
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Subscribing dates shifting has been fixed.
  • Issue with the person vs company sorting has been fixed.
  • Default start time when creating a Phone Call communication is now set to now.
  • "Before Due" column in the Project Module is now correctly filled.
  • All-day events in the Week view are resized correctly.
  • Many calendar comboboxes (in task and event separated window edit) reverted to 1970 when the date was incorrect. They now reverts to the last correct entered date.
  • The badge in the Dock is now correct.
  • "Use "right click" to trash the Project Trash module content.
  • Force quitting the app at launch could sometimes delete some existing project!
  • Project date completion textfield is now correctly hidden in any other status than "Completed".
  • In the contact module, task pane, week and month were sometimes not filtering the current week/month.
  • Some subscribed filters disapear when browsing in "All" mode.
  • In german only, categories in contact separate window edit did not display correctly.
  • A rare crash when deleting an invitation's event has been fixed.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.8.7 (Mar 24, 2010)

  • Fixed a bug with Tasks and Events column sorting that could completely hang the app.
  • Fixed a bug when exporting contacts as TSV/CSV files, categories where non existent.
  • Unfortunately revert back to old MS Word merging system because the new, much faster, system was not compatible with complex Word document.
  • Fixed a bug with French localization in Projects preferences (processes where not listed).

New in Contactizer Pro 3.8.6 (Mar 8, 2010)

  • Fixed a bug with email message sending with attachment file.
  • Fixed a bug with email message invitation sending.
  • An issue with email encoding has been fixed (UTF8).
  • An appropriate time shift with "all day" events has been fixed.
  • Fixed a bug when trying to open a contact card from Mail or another app.
  • Drag n dropping messages from Mail to a communication to create a link was not possible.
  • Sending Emailing in HTML format with attachments keeps the attached files.
  • Better attendees scanning in invitations.
  • Fixed a bug regarding deleted linked items.
  • Fixed a problem with wrong dates in subscribes or sometimes birthdays.
  • Fixed a problem when tabbing inside H/M/AM PM hour text fields.
  • Deleting a communication could crash the app.
  • A potential crash with the Communication Center - especially with a delete action.
  • A potential crash has been fixed when editing an occurrence of a recurrence.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.8.5 (Feb 5, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Added a trash in the Projects Module.
  • It is now possible to archive your completed (or non completed) projects. They will be stored in a new Archive group.
  • You are now able to duplicate your projects by using copy-paste (excepting resources).
  • Improvements:
  • You're now informed if an error occurs when sending an email using a template.
  • On 10.6, inputing dates in separate window edit mode has been improved: you can type different formats (10/10/10 , 10 Oct. 2010, 10 10 10 , 10.10.10 or 10.10.2010, and you can even type "today", "tomorrow" ...).
  • Better automatic encoding recognition when importing files.
  • Made "Hide Archived Projects" in popup menus a persistent setting.
  • Faster refresh of emails lists in Communication Center and Contacts modules.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed a bug with date input with year of 4 digits.
  • Adding an attachment to an email template could delete the text when sent.
  • Fixed a drawing calendar view bug with "short" events, the summary was truncated.
  • Fixed a problem with alarms that continues to fire wven if the task is cancelled or completed.
  • Fixed a category sorting/ordering problems in groups and filters (on the left of the window).
  • Fixed a bug with birthdays that could become 2 days long when changing the timezone.
  • Fixed a bug with birthday date edit in details views.
  • Fixed a bug with disappearing carriage returns in document merging or emailing.
  • Fixed a bug with non replaced merge keys.
  • Fixed a crashing bug when selecting a birthday.
  • Fixed a duplicated birthdays problem.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.8.4 (Jan 20, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Added a trash in the Projects Module.
  • It is now possible to archive your completed (or non completed) projects. They will be stored in a new Archive group.
  • You are now able to duplicate your projects by using copy-paste (excepting resources).
  • Improvements:
  • Added a new criteria in the Contacts Smart Group Editor: "Card was changed after mm/dd/yy".
  • Complete change in the way we used to manage dates in Contactizer. This was needed for the iPhone Contactizer companion. It also helps sync and correctness of dates.
  • Autocompletion has been enhanced for better accuracy. It does not force the first letter of your sentence.
  • Timezone autocompletion in preferences allows more countries and cities.
  • The link with Mail has been partially rewritten in particular for IMAPs servers (was: Deleting a message from Contactizer deleted it from Mail but not from the server and was: Deleting a message from Contactizer can crash Mail).
  • Projects can now be duplicated by Command-C / Command-V.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Mail invitations scanning is more reliable & faster.
  • Fix a bug regarding contact data sharing: creating a contact remotely sometimes did not work.
  • Change the way Contactizer interprets some flags from the Apple AddressBook. Some persons were wrongly seen as companies.
  • Fix a major problem with dates around january 2010. You were sometimes transported in 2011.
  • Improved Preferences toolbar. It's now possible to browse backward / forward.
  • Categories should be sorted as in the preferences everywhere in the app.
  • Fix a crash when using envelop print models with non System fonts.
  • Fix a graphical bug in the dayboard window displaying time and date and temperature.
  • You can now copy and paste a project more robustly.
  • Alarms management has been partly rewritten. They now fire correctly in all conditions.
  • fixed a potential exception when editing a task or event occurence.
  • Contactizer now supports .docx MS Word Document format.
  • Fixed a crash when editing a communication from the details view.
  • Fixed a crash when trashing tasks/events.
  • Fix several crashes related to the details view.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.8.3 (Oct 27, 2009)

  • Contactizer Pro 3.8.3 is a critical update that primarily improves overall stability and enhances some features. This update fixes a dozen of issues. Contactizer Pro 3.8.3 is highly recommended for all users of Contactizer Pro 3.8.
  • Improvements:
  • Added a setting in the Preferences to disable Mail invitations scanning.
  • Clearing message cache (from the preferences > Email pane) is now dramatically faster.
  • Searching contacts with the search field is now faster.
  • All modules now support "type select" in the list. Select for example the First Name column, type "joh" and the first contact with first name Joh(n) will be quickly selected.
  • Several enhancements have been brought to the calendar view to make text much more readable: bigger, bold, font size and less fuzzu font.
  • A setting to force black/white text color for event blocks in the calendar view has been added in the Preferences > Appearence > Events pane.
  • Tasks with no start nor due dates are now displayed in the Event module.
  • Deleting emails in the communication can be dramatically faster.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Mail invitations scanning is more reliable & faster.
  • Detached events with alarms do not generate background exceptions when edited from the details view.
  • Contacts Birthday scanning is much faster and much more reliable.
  • You should not get "inacessible object from store" error nor "multiple validation error" error messages.
  • Fixed a potential exception related to the tasks in event module.
  • Fixed a potential exception when importing VCS file.
  • Merging a lot of contacts now consume less memory.
  • Fixed a problem with unsavable photo in the contact window.
  • A potential crash related to birthday events has been fixed.
  • Fixed a crash when unsubscribe or refreshing subscribes.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.8.1 (Sep 16, 2009)

  • Main Features:
  • Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard compatible
  • General user interface has been modernized.
  • Completed / Uncompleted / Progress filters are now placed on the top header of tableviews to allow data to be filtered by categories AND by status
  • It's now possible to subscribe to ICS calendars (online calendars)
  • Ability to automatically show your contact's birthdays in your calendar
  • Projets & Tasks are now more deeply paired
  • Categories are now part of the Bonjour Sharing for Contacts, Tasks & Events
  • Events can now be set with a floating timezone
  • Timezone settings have been redesigned
  • A task can be linked easily to one or more projects thanks to a new popup widget
  • Timezone settings have been redesigned
  • Low levels have been optimized for the upcoming Contactizer iPhone app.
  • Improvements
  • Project's completed date could now be edited:
  • A task can be linked easily to one or more projects thanks to a new popup widget
  • Contact groups & categories are now available as merge keys
  • Addresses in Contact full edit window are now ordered according to the card country setting

New in Contactizer Pro 3.8.0 (Sep 8, 2009)

  • Main Features:
  • Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard compatible.
  • General user interface has been modernized.
  • Completed / Uncompleted / Progress filters are now placed on the top header of tableviews to allow data to be filtered by categories AND by status.
  • It's now possible to subscribe to ICS calendars (online calendars).
  • Ability to automatically show your contact's birthdays in your calendar.
  • Projets & Tasks are now more deeply paired.
  • Categories are now part of the Bonjour Sharing for Contacts, Tasks & Events.
  • Events can now be set with a floating timezone.
  • Timezone settings have been redesigned.
  • A task can be linked easily to one or more projects thanks to a new popup widget.
  • Timezone settings have been redesigned.
  • Low levels have been optimized for the upcoming Contactizer iPhone app.
  • Improvements:
  • Project's completed date could now be edited.
  • A task can be linked easily to one or more projects thanks to a new popup widget.
  • Contact groups & categories are now available as merge keys.
  • Addresses in Contact full edit window are now ordered according to the card country setting.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.7.5 (Jul 15, 2009)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed a corruption langages files with 3.7.3.
  • Fixed few bugs with the Sparkle automatic update framework.
  • Fix a crash or an error when sending an email.
  • Fix an incoherency with all day occurrences that have malformated durations.
  • Fix a problem with categories on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Categories list could be empty.
  • Fix potential issue with the calendar navigation in ISO mode.
  • Few categories problems with 10.4 users.
  • A problem with occurences & recurrences in all-day mode has been fixed.
  • An exception in the Email mass sending process has been found and fixed.
  • Improvements:
  • German & French translations have been improved.
  • Sparkle auto-update framework has been patched for the next major 3.8 upgrade.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.7.4 (May 19, 2009)

  • [FIXED] Corrupted languages files.
  • [FIXED] Few bugs with the automatic update framework.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.7.3 (May 12, 2009)

  • A critical update that primarily improves overral stability and enhances some features. This update fixes a dozen of issues. Contactizer Pro 3.7.3 is highly recommended for all users of Contactizer Pro.
  • Improvements:
  • Contactizer store now allows copy/paste even when the application is not licensed.
  • Skype 2.8 is now supported (use the latest beta).
  • The calendar view is now more responsive to event resizing.
  • Added much more countries and address format.
  • Pages and Numbers from iWork 09' are now supported for merge operations.
  • Automatically launch the Assistant if the Contactizer Application Support folder has been deleted or is missing.
  • Groups color highlighting has been changed to "flashy yellow" when selecting a contact and pression Option key.
  • "Add as project resource" menu can now be filtered by pressing the Alt (Option) key while opening the menu. This will filter "in progress" projects.
  • Much better scrolling in the browsing calendar views on the left. Now compatible with new trackpads and horizontal scrolls.
  • Added "Anniversary Dates" as a column in the Contact module
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed a calendar/category problem when syncing recurring events with iCal.
  • Fixed time zone issue with recurring events end date.
  • Fixed a problem where events or tasks did not appear after a sync.
  • Fixed a nasty bug where contact roles in a project were reset when quick editing the project.
  • Fixed an envelop printing bug.
  • Fixed an issue with project's notes printing (the application was hanging).
  • Fixed a problem with event details view scrolling.
  • Fixed a category selection problem in the Quick Task Entry panel when using the keyboard only.
  • Fixed a crashing bug when merging or emailing a contact.
  • Removed the (wrong) Command 0 shortcut for Dayboard.
  • Fixed a bug when leaving contact Quick Edit mode.
  • Fixed a rare hang (the app hangs can hang about 10 to 45s).

New in Contactizer Pro 3.7.2 (Apr 7, 2009)

  • A critical update that primarily improves overral stability and enhances some features. This update fixes a dozen of issues.
  • Improvements
  • Shorten the Birthday line in the Details View.
  • Enhanced sync of URLs with iCal. Link to Mail messages or Omnifocus entries are now kept when syncing.
  • When the calendar view cells are not tall enough to display all the events for a day, it displays a little badge at the top. For example: "3 more" if 3 events are not drawn in this day cell.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed a crash when syncing introduced in 3.7.1.
  • The Sharing popup button in the toolbar was incorrectly drawn as sharing when it was not. The menu items where not correctly titled too.
  • Fixed a bug with identical period titles when printing events.
  • Fixed the "copy into clipboard" contextual menu in Projects Details View (custom field area).
  • Fixed a Document Merge bug on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) when renaming the destination file.
  • Fixed a mistake in the Category edition panel in Preferences. Contact and Group were swapped.
  • Adding an URL custom field in contacts, and make it available to all contacts was incorrectly adding the custom field as a postal address custom field.
  • Fixed a minor bug with search field in French.
  • Fixed several printing bugs related to calendar views.
  • Fixed several contacts exporting problems. Tabulated text export is now much more reliable, and compatible with MS Excel or Apple Numbers.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.7.1 (Mar 16, 2009)

  • A critical update that primarily improves overral stability and enhances some features.
  • This update fixes a dozen of issues.
  • Contactizer Pro 3.7.1 is highly recommended for all users of Contactizer Pro.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.7 (Feb 9, 2009)

  • A free update that includes more than 20 major new features & enhancements to manage your professional life.
  • Offers a new standalone companion, Dayboard that allows you to view at a glance tasks, events and birthdays when Contactizer is closed.
  • Contactizer sports also the ability to define custom type for events & tasks, a QuickLook preview (Leopard Only) for the Attachments, a Cover Flow mode (Leopard Only) that shows your contacts in a business card like presentation and many user interface enhancements expanding your productivity.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.6.7 (Aug 27, 2008)

  • You can drag a task or an event from the Data Picker and drop it in the contact module, task/event tab to add the contact as an attendee.
  • You can now double click in the calendar view, on the table columns header (in week view), or on the top left of each cell in month view to get to the clicked day view.
  • A magnifying glass appears when you roll over a day in calendar month view. Clicking on it display the content of the day.
  • Update the database scheme to be ready for the upcoming iPhone Contactizer companion
  • Fixed a hang on launch in rare cases.
  • The group category menu was missing in 3.6.6.
  • Exporting contacts on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger crashed the app.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.6.6 (Aug 18, 2008)

  • [NEW] A rare program hang on launch has been fixed.
  • [NEW] An issue with the context menu of the Source View of the Contact Module now has been fixed.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.6.2 (Jun 13, 2008)

  • Many Sync problems have been fixed. Compatibility with iCal has been enhanced.
  • Events in month view are correctly sorted by day.
  • Contact custom fields and labels are now searchable.
  • Related names and attendees are now sorted alphabetically in the details view and edition view.
  • In the details view, Contactizer now shifts the end date accordingly if you shift the start date.
  • New merge keys ${date.previousmonth}, ${date.nextmonth}, and ${date.thisyear}.
  • Built-in documentation chapters have been added.
  • The Sync should not freeze the application assistant in rare cases.
  • Contactizer does not add any comment in the iCal calendars. It was previously overwriting your comments.
  • A graphical problem with the Bluetooth button has been fixed.
  • A major TSV/CSV export bug has been fixed. The file may not be created.
  • The category panel did not work correctly in CoverFlow mode.

New in Contactizer Pro 3.6.1 (Jun 2, 2008)

  • New preference to edit in a separate window, a newly created event just after drawing in the calendar view.
  • Many Sync problems have been fixed. Compatibility with iCal has been enhanced.
  • You can now set the project *step* of a project from the Task window edition.
  • You can now filter the listed projects from the Task window edition. Use the Option (Alt) key when opening the popup to list only "In Progress" projects.
  • Links can be opened from edition windows (double click or button at the right of the rows).
  • Preference items sensitivity to dragging has been decreased.
  • Documentation has been updated.
  • Clicking Contactizer icon in the Dock displays Contactizer windows as they were previously. The main window is not always set above the others.
  • Added more checkings on import of corrupted ics files. Should fix some crashes too.
  • Week number computation in US/Partial mode has been enhanced.
  • Deleting a group may crash the application. This bug has been fixed.
  • Some deleted occurences may reappear after relaunch. This problem has been fixed.
  • An exception could occured when editing and deleting a task or an event.
  • Project process view was sometime incorrectly drawn at the bottom of the screen.
  • Alarms may not fire under certain circumstances. Problem solved.
  • Printing events in month mode incorrectly appeared on multiple continuous days.
  • Sync buttons are now correctly disabled/enabled in the preferences and do not trigger useless sync on close.
  • Sync sheet panel is correctly displayed.
  • A major Events sharing bug has been fixed. It blocked sharing.
  • A minor graphical glitch occured with the Sync button when syncing.
  • Incoherencies in the label management when importing using TSV or CSV file format have been fixed.
  • Fixes a problem with custom recurrence rule edition that were not accepted.
  • Editing a remote shared item no longer overwrite its category.
  • A long standing crash has been fixed (Calendar view drawing bug).

New in Contactizer Pro 3.6 (May 13, 2008)

  • Contactizer Pro 3.6 sports a Cover Flow mode (Leopard Only feature) that shows your contacts in a business card like presentation, a Task Quick Entry Panel, a new multi-calendar sync system and many user interface enhancements expanding your productivity.