What's new in Chaos Free 10.1.0.4
Oct 31, 2017
- fixed a bug in the import tool under the file menu that was injected with the last update that would prevent the importing of data.
- added a delete confirmation dialog on the Quickfind screen.
- added a fix when importing transportable records of old daytitles so that they do not convert to local time
- appointment location now fills in automatically when dropping a contact into the appointment window
- new option to turn on/off leading trailing dates on monthly calendar printout, located on the Print Options Tweaks tab.
- fixed a minor selection issue with calendar, tasks on classic view to display linked names when multiselecting records
- export to csv file works with selected records rather than the whole list.
New in Chaos Free 10.1.0.3 (Nov 3, 2016)
- fixed a minor issue with toggling the All Contacts checkbox on Linked Contacts
- fixed a possible error that occurred for some when doing a backup when closing the program
- fixed the alarm checkbox inconsistency with repeating calendar events on the monthview and weekview screen without an alarm
- added the name of the dataset being opened to the password access screen.
- fixed an issue when synchronizing with Chaos Host that would skip deletes from Host
- minor highlighting change in the notes editor so cursor keys remove highlight selection
- fixed a possible error in selection of paperbins on printers
New in Chaos Free 10.1.0.2 (Nov 3, 2016)
- improved error handling for invalid photo format on a contact record.
- removed resize rows from columns menu to simplify interface options.
- blank end time on calendar events is now possible as a default if you set the default duration to 0 minutes
- fixed word wrapping issue on QuickPrint
- fixed the drop down list for field 19 of the contacts custom fields.
New in Chaos Free 10.1.0.1 (Apr 15, 2016)
- Fixed a minor month view calendar issue where the mouse moving to a 2nd monitor could raise an error.
- Fixed a minor theme issue with Caspian where the telephone numbers font was an incorrect color.
- Fixed an issue in calendar where the duration column would display incorrectly.
- Fixed a possible error when synchronizing with Chaos Host.
- Fixed a display issue with 4K displays.
- Fixed an alarm system.
New in Chaos Free 10.1.0.0 (Apr 15, 2016)
- New records may now be added using the Insert key on the keyboard.
- Imported vCalendar and vCard records now replace \n for a line feed.
- Incoming transportable records can be double click.ed on to preview.
- Much improved drag and drop of grid items
- Search footer hot key ctrl + s.
- Vastly improved column stretch. It actually works now.
- Removed any invalid plugins from appearing on the accessory menu.
- Fixed a bug that would cause a new appointment to pick up the incorrect group Name if the contacts were also filtered by group.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent the grid from scrolling to a newly added contact.
- Fixed a bug where the cursor keys would not work when using the type ahead lookup in the contact list.
- Fixed a theme color bug with text box on quickfind screen.
New in Chaos Free 10.1.0.0 Beta (Feb 5, 2016)
- unicode support - you can now type or paste text in international character sets such as Greek, Kanji, Hebrew, Cyrillic and others with our new ability to support UTF-8
New in Chaos Free 8.1.1.0 (Oct 20, 2015)
- fixed an issue on column sizing when "Autosize columns" is turned off
- the contact profile printout has been adapted to remove the redundancy of repeating the contact name on both the primary and secondary address blocks
- new windows 10 theme and removal of the ORB now replaced by a File Menu (boring but that's Microsoft's consistant new style)
- various other minor fixes and tweaks
New in Chaos Free 8.1.0.0 (Oct 20, 2015)
- added additional search on quickfind. If you search for something, you can now do a completely new search directly from the quickfind results screen.
- added web content bulletin on the check for updates screen. May be used to promote new announcements and urgent news (such as we had last November).
- fixed a refresh issue when using desktop icons to switch between data sets.
- misc other tweaks/fixes.
New in Chaos Free 8.0.6.9 (Nov 11, 2014)
New in Chaos Free 8.0.6.8 (Aug 8, 2014)
- added a fail safe to prevent work from being lost when entering data into a new record that is missing a lastname, or company.
- added a fail safe to prevent record changes from being lost by clicking the close button icon of a form
- fixed an issue that could cause the task list to repaint multiple times
- added additional error checks and minor bug fixes
New in Chaos Free 8.0.6.6 (Sep 23, 2013)
- day plan printout now supports canceled all day events with the strikeout font
- fixed an issue correctly saving linked appointments within a project when filtered by group and then clicking the ok button to save the record.
- added an optional text field for location on the appointment entry screen. This information is used when importing and sending vCalendar events and synchronizing with mobile devices to specify a location for the meeting.
- attached notes now supports printing of a highlighted selection as an option
- importing of vCalendar events now preserves the CRLF's within the event's note field.
- added meeting confirmations for Chaos Hosting customers. Now when you send an appointment to an email recipient(s) they will be asked to Confirm or Decline the invitation, your appointment will reflect their responses within the appointment details and on the classic screen, week planner, agenda views.
- default font size has been set to 9 point size. Size preference is located in options on the appearance tab.
- fixed a bug when adding new events into a unfiled filtered list
- misc other tweaks.
New in Chaos Free 8.0.6.5 (Jun 7, 2013)
- fixed a bug that would cause program to restart rather than shutdown during a program update.
- by popular demand added back the auto complete fields for company, city, state, job title.
- each printout now saves/recalls device color printing option.
- dymo labels now honor contact option check boxes for both job title and company and the address format set from preferences.
- group filtering at startup now also works with the "unfiled" group
- notes date stamp now supports variables for %UTC% (utc time) and %OFFSET% (current time zone offset from utc)
- Ctrl+F now sets the focus into the quick find text box
- Ctrl+D now marks a focused task as DONE
New in Chaos Free 8.0.6.4 (May 13, 2013)
- fixed a chaos host sync issue on an edited repeating series where only the first editing item in the series would be sent
- transportable records accepted through the in basket now update the last modified date and time so that they correctly synchronize with chaos host.
New in Chaos Free 8.0.6.3 (Apr 12, 2013)
- when you are filtered using a Not logic on a Category, new records are now unchecked for that category
- when editing bulleted items in notes. Inserting a new item either in the middle or end of list will automatically turn on bullets
- added Caspian as a new theme.
- programmers note only. updated all internal windows calls from wm_user to registerwindowmessage
- theme color enhancements
- other minor bug fixes
New in Chaos Free 8.0.6.2 (Mar 1, 2013)
- exporting of report data containing html (such as the linked name fields) is now stripped out.
- printing of notes from within a data entry screen now adds a header and footer with page count.
- minor bug fixes.
New in Chaos Free 8.0.6.0 (Jan 24, 2013)
- new archive feature under the file menu. Allows fast archiving of old calendar and task data. Selectively restorable through the advanced data backup explorer.
- a few UI changes on Advanced data backup explorer to support the new archive feature.
- you can now drag contacts and drop on a date of the navigation calendars to quickly schedule and appointment.
- linked items within an Appointment, Task, Project or Contacts entry screen now can filter by group and category.
- miscellaneous bug fixes.
New in Chaos Free 8.0.5.8 (Jan 4, 2013)
- included confirmation dialog's to calendar, tasks, projects when using the delete button on the data entry screen.
- fixed a row select issue when using Shift + up / down cursor keys
- added a reset button and the ability to insert the tab keys on the custom clipboard designer.
- custom fields defined as being Currency, Integer, Percentage will now prevent keyboard entry of non-numeric characters
- optional search footer visibility is now saved, restored on program start.
- fixed a bug in reorganizing the users in the user list that could cause to be inserted around the user names.
- many small optimizations
New in Chaos Free 8.0.5.7 (Dec 12, 2012)
- fixed a day planner printout bug that would cause the time line to start at midnight when there was a repeating day title.
- fixed an issue that would turn off an appointment alarm when being moved to a new day when the lead time was 0 minutes.
- improved the efficiency of the chaos host synchronization with implementation of zip files rather than bak files.
- vCard addresses that are encoded as Quotable Printable should now import better
- many more minor things that are hardly worthy of a bullet item
New in Chaos Free 8.0.5.6 (Dec 12, 2012)
- fixed a condition that could auto size the row heights when word wrap is turned off.
- fixed a few display fonts that were not following your theme settings.
- improved the refreshing of the display when changing theme elements.
- added a new section in options for Telephony. This allows you to auto dial from you computer with services such as Skype using Callto: or Tel:
- main grids (not report) now have a default stretch column that sizes automatically so they do not spill over beyond view. This option appears on the columns menu aptly named Auto Stretch Column.
- fixed an issue with custom fields set to drop down list when using previous and next buttons.
- you can now drag an appointment or task from the quick find search results to a date on the navigation calendar to either copy or move the item.
New in Chaos Free 8.0.5.5 (Nov 2, 2012)
- fixes for some timezones with the new world clocks on the agenda page.
- fixed the memory leak from the new agenda clocks.
New in Chaos Free 8.0.5.4 (Oct 25, 2012)
- improved bullets and numbering within a note
- improved the speed when dragging and dropping multiple appointments or tasks to another day.
- fixed the tab key order on the contact entry screen.
- fixed an incorrect record count when grid is in treeview mode.
- context menu (cut,copy, paste ...) applied to all custom fields.
- when a grid is in treeview mode the column that it is grouped on is now automatically set to zero width, rather than repeating the same text over and over on each line.
- lots of small items
New in Chaos Free 8.0.5.2 (Oct 6, 2012)
- new default option to left align data entry tabs. If you don't like this or it is not appropriate for you display click the icon in the upper right corner of the data entry screen.
- minor change to the custom fields to allow improved resizing
- added an copy to clipboard icon in the contact preview for the address. (more obvious then a right click)
- fixed a navigation calendar bug that was preventing the setting and clearing of a day color
- chaos host synchronization improved to ensure we always have a unique temporary folder.
- added a right click menu option to "Remove Linked Item(s)". Useful when linked items have been added you want to remove the link only and not delete the item.
- quickfind has been enhanced to allow a database specific search. Just preface your search with calendar:, tasks:, mail:, contacts:, projects: .... for example: "task:shipping confirmation" (don't forget the colon :). PS. if you have customized Projects to something else then you would use your customized name followed by a colon.
- lots of appearance tweaks
- to copy a telephone number or a custom field value to the windows clipboard you now only need to left mouse click on the text itself (not the hyperlink), also have made custom fields take advantage of launching applications via the services ini file.
- all categories have a new right click menu option to change the number of viewable columns from 1 to 9 (default is 3)
New in Chaos Free 8.0.5.1 (Sep 22, 2012)
- added new option under Export for "Clipboard Copy as Text". This copies the row column text to the windows clipboard in a format that can be directly pasted into most spreadsheets as columns and rows.
- fixed an repeat option bug that failed to properly recognize the last day of the month
- custom copy to clipboard no longer automatically inserts carriage return between records. If you want carriage returns just add them to your template
- redesign of category filter options needed in order to keep simplicity while adding Not logic
- improved the responsiveness during the opening a network UNC location the first time.
- various other minor bug fixes/tweaks
New in Chaos Free 8.0.5.0 (Jul 28, 2012)
- fixed a bug with repeated appointments where an event with an unchecked alarm would incorrectly check alarms on future events
New in Chaos Free 8.0.4.9 (Jul 7, 2012)
- linked appointments, tasks that are editing from within the entry screen now will not be duplicated
- contact profile custom date fields are now printing properly formated
- contact list "new button" dropdown now includes appointments and tasks. You can now select multiple contacts, click new task or appointment, all selected contacts will be linked to the new event
- on a dual monitor configuration the Open Data Dialog was incorrectly opening in the center of the screen rather than center of the active monitor
New in Chaos Free 8.0.4.8 (Jul 2, 2012)
- fixed a calendar printing bug where a repeating item with no start time would print at 12am rather than a day title
- a potential fix for a rare cloud synchronization condition where old temporary database files are unable to be deleted and thus preventing a users new records from being posted to the host
- dragged and dropped contact records to calendar or tasks can now insert fields from the contact record into the description. note: this is an advanced feature that works similar to the services.ini file. call or write tech support for assistance.
New in Chaos Free 8.0.4.7 (Jun 16, 2012)
- chaoshost automatic sync settings have been moved so they are data independent (you will need to reset your options)
- fixed a bug related to the new 2 way reciprocal links overwriting previous values.
- fixed the prev/next record buttons from with a contact record so that no attempt is made to move beyond the first or last record.
- quickfind results can now be dragged and dropped as you would any other record
- vcs and ics files that have more that 1 record within the file, will now prompt user to automatically add all records
- when adding a new record, some tabs were unavailable until after record was saved
- fixed: when attempting to save a new project without a project name, user was warned but the record would close thus losing the changes
New in Chaos Free 8.0.4.6 (Jun 9, 2012)
- improved main icon scaling on desktop
- option for dialog prompts enhanced to be unique for all views
- fixed an issue that would prevent the delete icon from working on a linked item within a contact record
- copy address to clipboard now surpresses the double & characters in an address
- photo panel within a contact entry screen opened/closed state is now persistent
- improved the performance of opening a network UNC location the first time. (windows can be very slow to respond to an initial request for a UNC location)
- improved drag and drop (redesigned/rewritten to help some users who get a stuck drag pointer)
- a contact linked to other contacts are now 2 way (reciprocal) links
New in Chaos Free 8.0.4.5 (Jun 1, 2012)
- type ahead lookup key processing on the grid has been rewritten.
- fixed a bug that would prevent the minimize button from working on windows 7 systems set to 125% fontsize
- fixed a bug where erasing the first category label and then saving would move the other labels up one position
New in Chaos Free 8.0.4.4 (May 19, 2012)
- Contact drop to appointment is now correctly setting the default alarm lead time preference
- Print settings optional start and end time tweaks have been corrected to properly display a formatted time.
- custom date fields with v3x values should now visually convert.
- custom fields enchanced so that a field set as Normal Edit Control will no longer use/save previously entered values
- reverted to old style tooltips as a few reports of occassional sticking
- various other minor corrections & tweaks
New in Chaos Free 8.0.4.3 (May 11, 2012)
- custom fields now support international currency (will need to change the field label to use localized symbol in place of $ and a program restart).
- repeat options on an existing non repeating event have now been corrected to reflect the appointment date rather than today's date.
- chaos host optimizations include providing some overlap time for network users with inaccurate system clocks.
- various other minor corrections & tweaks.
New in Chaos Free 8.0.4.2 (Apr 30, 2012)
- on startup of classic module the first selected task with linked contacts now ignores highlighting of the contact may leave the user believing that that contact list sorting is incorrect.
- custom fields with decimal places are now displaying consistant formatting on both the grid and the data entry screens.
- fixed a bug with Set and Clear Categories Values where it would incorrectly truncate the category at the position of the change.
- now clearing the checked linked contacts when using Prev Next buttons on a contact record
- word mail merge with custom fields (projects or contacts) containing dates should now be correctly formatted.
- improved method of bringing ms word to the forground when mail merging.
- removed the extra blank category from being added on the category selection popup window.
- fixed the Agenda module background color on windows 8
New in Chaos Free 8.0.4.1 (Apr 17, 2012)
- fixed restore so that it really can restore old format backup files.
- added ability to schedule a new activity series from within a record.
- many small tweaks and twiddles.
New in Chaos Free 8.0.4.0 (Apr 6, 2012)
- fixed a Group filter bug that would carry an Group Filter from the calendar to other modules.
- a new appointment default endtime is completed without the requirement for a default start time.
New in Chaos Free 8.0.3.9 (Mar 31, 2012)
- fixed external alarm monitor so that it now uses the correct ini settings file
- fixed: Task default drop priority.
- fixed double confirmation required while creating a new set of data
- restore data now supports old version backups, providing that there are no current bak files in the restore folder.
- task list printout now supports color priorities
- the "New" toolbar button in Contacts now includes "E-Mail Message". This is to create a new email to all the selected contacts.
- quite a few treeview mode tweaks.
- corrected a font color issue on the Agenda page with the themes Brillant and Whitby.
- password in preferences is no longer displayed in plain text
- linked lists now save the last used sort order (ascending or descending)
New in Chaos Free 8.0.3.8 (Mar 24, 2012)
- added a toggle button for live spelling to the notes screens.
- added a few adjustments to better handle large font settings in windows.
- create desktop shortcut was failing to actually launch the correct dataset
- fixed an issue where a maximized main form would not restore back to normal in the old windows classic mode
- a few tweaks to the activity series data entry screens.
New in Chaos Free 8.0.3.7 (Mar 17, 2012)
- fixed a condition where edting a repeating series by ONLY changing the repeat thru date would fail to see the record as being changed.
- fixed a minor color issue with Metro theme font color
- improved percentage custom fields so it better supports decimals.
- contact record telephone number field connect (dial) buttons now working.
New in Chaos Free 8.0.3.6 (Mar 17, 2012)
- fixed a minor issue within the contact entry screen that was causing the misalignment of the copy and paste icons.
- fixed an issue that prevented the default time interval preference from being recalled.
- reordered the Quick Access Toolbar icons.
- included missing dymo label printing utility.
New in Chaos Free 8.0.3.5 (Mar 17, 2012)
- added a few more formats for the contact's "Name" field, which is extensively used not only as a column but also the format of Linked Names (contacts section of the program settings).
- address block on the business card now correctly supports the format chosen in settings
- copy primary/secondary address block images added to contact entry screen.
- a group and category query on the classic screen can now be combined.
- fixed a bug that prevented the type ahead search from working in the contact list when "activate controls with a mouse over" option was selected in options.
New in Chaos Free 8.0.3.4 (Mar 17, 2012)
- launching a vCard, vCalendar can now correctly start the program if it is closed.
- mouse hover will now change the focus to the underlaying control. useful in conjunction with a mouse scrollwheel can be turned off in options (activate controls with a mouse over)
- no longer have to click a date for the week number to refresh, it's now activated on startup
- a single vcard exported to the user specified filename, multiple vcards export to the Display name of each record.
- prevented the opening of a new record by single clicking on a grouped node.
- improved the clearing of on screen data when changing data sets
- fixed a windows xp issue that caused a couple of extra characters to be displayed on the "New" menu items
New in Chaos Free 8.0.3.3 (Mar 17, 2012)
- fixed a condition that prevented edited appointment or task series from being uploaded to ChaosHost.
- fixed a condition where editing of repeat series on the monthview or weekview and opting to change only a single event would incorrectly update the whole series.
- fixed the planner drag item so that it now can change both time and date in a single drag operation
- fixed an issue where the repeat thru date could initially be set to a date prior to the event date.
- viewing only of the repeat options no longer marks the record as having changed
- fixed a couple of minor issues regarding importing and exporting of vcards
- added additional checks to ensure user confirmation prior to creating any new files in a folder
- fixed an error in the format of the default time date stamp in notes
- improved the pasting of snippets into a note.
- added a "New" toolbar icon (easier for some to see/use)
- drop of contact to appointments now sets default starttime, endtime correctly.
- fixed a bug that would prevent a windows shutdown from closing the program.
- folder synchronization now supports legal billing data
- reporting on a date field can now accept values of (and can be saved with a report)
- %THISMONTH%, %LASTMONTH%, %NEXTMONTH%
- %THISYEAR%, %LASTYEAR%, %NEXTYEAR%
- %THISWEEK%, %LASTWEEK%, %NEXTWEEK%
- %THISQUARTER%, %LASTQUARTER%, %NEXTQUARTER%
- %JANUARY% ... �CEMBER%
New in Chaos Free 8.0.3.2 (Mar 17, 2012)
- custom copy fixed a bug that would raise an error due on tasks.
- custom copy now support linked names as text rather than record keys.
- agenda view appointment and task delete menus is now functional
- tree view nodes background color corrected to be the same as the grid
- grids were not remembering the last sort order when program was restarted if the first column was an icon style column
- the quick lookup edit (at the top of a column) will close when focus moved to another module
- added a notification that moving and sorting by columns is restricted while in treeview mode
- group filters are saved at program close and recalled on opening of data
- hortizontal scroll position maintained after sort on column headings.
- better coordination of filters within various views