What's new in Importer for Contacts 1.7.4
Apr 21, 2024
- When assigning labels to a "Related name" field, lower-level relationships such as "co-brother-in-law" are now hidden by default.
New in Importer for Contacts 1.7.3 (Jan 30, 2024)
- This update addresses a problem when restoring in-app purchases.
New in Importer for Contacts 1.7.2 (Jul 11, 2023)
- Exported vCards can now contain the groups a contact is a member of for improved interoperability with third party apps.
- Worked around an macOS issue were contact relations ("Related name") are not exported correctly to vCards.
New in Importer for Contacts 1.7.1 (May 25, 2023)
- Fixed a bug that could prevent custom mappings from being saved correctly.
New in Importer for Contacts 1.7 (Oct 23, 2022)
- Added support for the upcoming version of macOS.
- Flagging a contact as a company is now more flexible, since the entire cell content in the import file is no longer matched with the terms stored in the settings. From now on it is sufficient if a term is contained in the cell content.
- Automatic detection of date formats has been further improved so that you rarely need to create custom date formats.
New in Importer for Contacts 1.6 (Nov 15, 2020)
- Added support for macOS 11 Big Sur
- Added support for Macs with Apple Silicon processor
- Fields imported into notes can now be formatted with various options for better readability. These options can be set in the app’s preferences.
- When importing group names from a FileMaker repeating field, the individual values are now automatically recognized.
- Improved reliability when extracting labels from label/value lists.
- Fixes a bug that caused a crash that occurred when an Excel date field contained an invalid value.
New in Importer for Contacts 1.5.1 (Jan 17, 2020)
- Added support for the "Phonetic Company" contact property
- Improved detection and handling of unwanted strings in Excel files, such as Windows line breaks and encoded characters
New in Importer for Contacts 1.5 (Oct 25, 2019)
- You can now sync field mappings through iCloud
- Added support for macOS 10.15 Catalina
New in Importer for Contacts 1.4.3 (May 22, 2019)
- The content of FileMaker repeating fields can now be splitted into individual values during import using the “Extract From Field” function. In FileMaker, use the CSV format for the export. Tab-separated text will not work in this case.
- An already purchased 4-year option will automatically be transformed into a lifetime license free of charge.
New in Importer for Contacts 1.4.2 (Mar 11, 2019)
- Header row detection for Excel files was improved.
- Fixed a bug that could lead to a crash when importing Excel files that were created with Numbers.
New in Importer for Contacts 1.4.1 (Feb 26, 2019)
- Fixed an issue that prevented the contact preview from scrolling.
New in Importer for Contacts 1.4 (Sep 26, 2018)
- Added support for macOS Mojave
- A bug has been fixed that caused the group membership to be read incorrectly from the import file.
New in Importer for Contacts 1.3.2 (May 4, 2018)
- This update includes an improved contact preview, which also increases the overall stability of the application.
New in Importer for Contacts 1.3.1 (Mar 30, 2018)
- Improved support for files that have no column headers.
New in Importer for Contacts 1.3 (Mar 4, 2018)
- NEW: You can now save whole mappings for later use. For quick access, saved mappings appear in the "Mapping" menu. Choose "Manage Saved Mappings…" from the "Mapping" menu to rename or delete saved mappings.
- NEW: You can now import vCards with automatic group restoration. The vCards to import are scanned for address book group information and will then be assigned to these groups. Groups that do not already exist will be created.
- NEW: The app now provides a powerful feature to extract comma- or new-line separated labelled value lists from an import field. For example, if your import file contains a field with several phone numbers in the form "work: (123) 456-789, home: (987) 654-321", map this to the "Phone" contact field and choose "Extract from field" from the "Label" popup menu. Importer for Contacts will then split the text into separate values, assigning the provided label to each of them accordingly.
- FIXED: When importing files, checking for empty values has been improved.
- CHANGED: Postal codes will now imported "as is". Automatic formatting of postal codes will now only applied to values from Excel cells formatted as number.
New in Importer for Contacts 1.2.1 (Nov 22, 2017)
- Fixed a potential crash when importing text files containing one row only.
New in Importer for Contacts 1.2 (Jun 14, 2017)
- The mapping interface now supports multi-line street address data for postal addresses.
- You can now define custom date formats to allow the import of dates independently from the current locale.
- You can now automatically share crash reports, analytics and usage data with the developer to help him to improve the app.
New in Importer for Contacts 1.1.1 (May 1, 2017)
- Fixed a bug that prevented the import of some date values.
New in Importer for Contacts 1.1 (Apr 11, 2017)
- Added German localization
New in Importer for Contacts 1.0.1 (Mar 20, 2017)
- Addresses minor issues related to reliability and stability.
New in Importer for Contacts 1.0 (Feb 21, 2017)