Today, we announce the release of ContactPad 1.0. Focusing mainly on stability, here are the changes:
New features
- Improved hotkeys settings makes them more flexible.
- New hotkey: “Call selected number”
- ContactPad can now act as default caller application for the following URI protocols: tel, sip and dial.
- ContactPad can now act as default TAPI called application.
- Export call history to CSV.
- While using hotkeys for search or immediate call, any containing “(0)” part of the number is now ignored.
- It’s now possible to sort columns in call history.
Bugfixes
- Contact items are no longer shown multiple times on certain contacts.
- In call history, company names are now always displayed under the “company” column.
Plugin changes
- New CRM plugin: Lundalogik Kontakt
- Outlook: Security warnings should no longer appear on 32bit systems.
- Outlook: It’s now possible to open the outlook contact from context menu.
- Outlook: Setting for searching for contacts in public folders. This feature now searches your whole public tree for contact folders, not only your root.
- Snom: It’s now possible to chose a static port for communication with your phone.
- Send SMS: It’s now more clear who you’re sending to.
Other changes
Apart from the above we have chosen to increase the amount of time before ContactPad searches for new contacts in it’s data sources, so that it’s now syncing once every hour. This is because some sources used a lot of CPU and could take quite some time to sync. We know this is not ideal, but it’s a reasonable compromise until we have a more dynamic solution in place.
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Hi,
very nice tool.
Is it possible to program add-ons?
Or can you read a csv file that we will export from tobit david?
We still have a little problem with roaming files:
If you logout the local profile will be deleted and the appdata/local path will not roam.
Normally persistent local files should be saved in ProgramData.
Regards,
Grischa
Grischa,
Sorry for the late reply.
There is an API for making custom data sources (the same that we use ourselves), but it’s not documented or finalized (breaking changes may occur). We are aiming to release a public API, but it’s not prioritized right now. At the time we’re focused on bringing the product to market.
In the meantime, it’s possible to import a CSV file to a data source we already support, such as Outlook.
You’re correct that settings does not roam. The settings are per-user based and stored in the user’s local settings on the computer. Please describe a little more about your environment. Are your users moving around from computer to computer?
Hi Kristoffer,
normally we don’t roam. But we use roaming profiles. You should splitt your config, because the telefon stands beside the computer and does not roam.
At our customers we use roaming paths and a single user on multiple computers and we deploy the most settings with scripts.
I prefer:
contact config in roaming user path.
telephone setting (for wired phones) in programdata path.
Regards,
Grischa
Grischa,
I definitely see your point, and it’s a good idea. I’ll make a ticket so we can look to it for future releases.
Sadly, we currently don’t have any system for you to follow this request, but I think we’re going to get a better feedback system when we’re overhauling or website soon.
Until then, don’t hesitate to give us your feedback, here, or in our support forum: http://www.contactpad.com/support/