What's new in ContactGenie DataPort 3.2019.3
Mar 26, 2019
- Minor core component update
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.2019.2 (Feb 22, 2019)
- BugFix:
- Fixed General System Opts screen not reverting to main screen when closed
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.2019.1 (Jan 1, 2019)
- <Change> - Price change from $179 to $79.
- <Change> - Native SQL import/export and Exchange Global Distrubtion Group (GDG) Export support removed
- <Change> - SelectedMailAddress field removed from Import field list
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.6.8 (Jan 9, 2018)
- Bugfix:
- Home Address field not refreshing correctly on main contact page
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.6.7 (Oct 16, 2017)
- <Bugfix> - Address fields not refreshing correctly on main contact page even with underlying fields being populated
- <Bugfix> - Improved handling of empty date fields on import
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.6.4 (Sep 18, 2017)
- <Bugfix> - Corrected some UDFs not importing correctly
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.6.2 (May 19, 2017)
- Corrected some UDFs not importing correctly
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.28 (Dec 28, 2016)
- BUG FIX:
- Corrected issue with field not updating in some cases
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.27 (Dec 6, 2016)
- BUG FIX:
- Corrected error when typing in a non-existant MSSQL server name - now restricted to drop down list
- CHANGES:
- Improved error trapping if MSSQL Backwards Compatibility components not installed
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.26 (Aug 22, 2016)
- BUG FIX:
- Corrected incorrect UDF field map when non-default message class selected
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.25 (Aug 16, 2016)
- Change: Exchange account status detection updated.
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.21b (Aug 16, 2016)
- Change: Version 3.5.22 withdrawn due to random issues preventing creation of template database in very isolated cases on some systems for reasons unknown at the current time.
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.22 (Aug 16, 2016)
- Change: Minor internal UI updates.
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.21 (Aug 16, 2016)
- Change: Minor internal updates for better Outlook '2016 support.
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.20 (Aug 16, 2016)
- Bug fix: Corrected error on export introduced in previous update.
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.19 (Aug 16, 2016)
- Change: Minor internal update.
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.18 (Aug 16, 2016)
- Change: Support for Windows 10 TP (b9925) and Outlook 2016 CP.
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.17 (Aug 16, 2016)
- Bug fix: Corrected MesageClass used from template recall if different from default for target folder.
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.16 (Apr 23, 2014)
- BugFix - Corrected error when assigning a custom name to an export field which is also used in filter criteria.
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.15 (Apr 23, 2014)
- New - Added support for Outlook.com (EAS - Exchange ActiveSync) contact folders including ability to import/export user-defined fields
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.14 (Apr 23, 2014)
- BugFix - Corrected embedded field delimited characters replaced by field qualifier character when importing text files
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.12 (Sep 23, 2013)
- Corrected issue where UDFs belonging to the "In Folder" group were not being immediately updated when included in underlying contact views
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.11 (Apr 22, 2013)
- Corrected issue encountered non Exch accounts with .ost files as the primary data store
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.9a (Oct 19, 2012)
- - Corrected issue importing tab delimited files with no field qualifier
- - Corrected problem for GAL based import/export in templates using a different Exchange based Outlook profile involving different Exchange servers
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.8 (Aug 21, 2012)
- - Corrected issue recalling export template used in command line mode exporting to a text based file
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.7 (Jun 21, 2012)
- - Corrected issue reading a text file in some cases where the field qualifiers were used in header row fields
- - Corrected Outlook date field types not updating in an Update import for new item creation when the source field type was not a field
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.6 (Jun 7, 2012)
- Corrected error caused when mapping an Upd Key value containing Null value
- Corrected problems recalling some SQL tables from template
- Corrected issue related to setting FileAs field when and name fields used in import
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.5 (Apr 27, 2012)
- Bugfix - Corrected an error incurred importing CSV text files under certain conditions involving field qualifier characters and multi-line fields (introduced in build 2.4.5)
- Bugfix - Bypassed invalid Global Distribution Entries in GAL instead of incurring hard failure
- Bugfix - Corrected from occurring when "Add New Only" option selected
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.4 (Apr 12, 2012)
- Corrected "thousands" and "decimal" separator issue for numeric fields selected as "update" key fields for non North American regional settings
- Corrected issue resulting from entering a blank custom export field name
- Corrected gender field update issue
- Corrected error caused when attempting to drag a map field outside of field map list
- Corrected extraneous message indicating missing
- Corrected template error when Outlook folder path exceeded 255 characters
- Corrected issue when importing text file that contained a text qualifier character inside of already qualified field data
- Combined Template and functions
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.3 (Feb 24, 2012)
- Corrected EmailAddress fields not updated on "Update" import
- Corrected export of Currency fields to Text file types
- Corrected selection option on Export
- Corrected error when field type differs between contact folder and data source and option is selected
- Combined Template / buttons
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.2 (Jan 5, 2012)
- - fixed "otherstreetaddress" separated lines1-4 not exporting correctly
- - fixed export template recall not exporting "streetaddresses" lines 1-4 correctly
- - corrected error encountered when running multiple text based exports back-to-back in same session
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.1 (Jan 5, 2012)
- - Corrected error when recalling a template using Excel/ workbooks containing only one worksheet entry
- - corrected issue involving UDFs at folder level not being created when new contact items added via an import
- - corrected error occurring processing a text file continaing a row with more fields then contained in the header row
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.5.0 (Jan 5, 2012)
- - Internal component update to minimize issues when running multiple ContactGenie programs (legacy, current, and/or customized) ContactGenie programs on the same system
- - Selection filter only allows the and operators for Outlook keyword fields. Using any other operator (i.e. = ) on a multi-valued keyword field generated an error
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.4.2 (Jan 5, 2012)
- - Removed Export Output DisplayAs option (ExportName or OutlookInternal). Selecting English language results in the same field names being exported as if OutlookInternal was selected which resulted in an error when another regional language was selected.
- - Template size for import file name expanded to 255 characters to allow for names exceeding the previous internal limit of 150 characters
- - Corrected issue with Filter fields not being populated with selected folder field names when recalling an export template (any filter created was still applied but no changes could be made to the filter)
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.4.1 (Jan 5, 2012)
- - Corrected error encountered when option selected using Selection Filter with (Is/Is Not Null/Blank or Like operators) with non-English regional settings
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.4.0 (Jan 5, 2012)
- - Option added to enabling contact items to be automatically deleted in contact folder that do not exist in the input data source based on the specified . Option will not be permitted if any is found to contain a value in the input data source (applicable only for Excel, Access, MS SQL file types)
- - Preview option to view differences in mapped field values between source data file and target contact folder for modes. Information available in an MS Access database file and can optionally also be saved to a CSV file
- - Import statistics now include additional elements reporting and duplicate items found in both the source data file and target contact folder based on the specified in the field map
- - Updates to contact items only applied if one or more mapped fields have a difference between the source file and contact folder otherwise leaving the LastModificationTime unchanged
- - Corrected issue not allowing export file name to be changed when the contact folder resulted in an initial invalid file name (i.e. contained a "/" in as part of the folder name)
- - Corrected issue related to Exchange environments such as Hosted accounts where no AddressBook existed (i.e. , or ). Can now enter an AB name of bypassing future AB checks.
- - Corrected mapped field names to correctly utilize value in field map for language specified instead of Internal Outlook names
- - Corrected issue where a mapped field would incorrectly show as an when using
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.3.5 (Jan 5, 2012)
- - Internal component maintenance updates
- - Corrected minor UI issues related to clearing field maps
- - Corrected errors occuring when using "Like" operators in filters
- - Removed "Select/View Populated Fields" buttons when exporting GAL items
- - Corrected error occuring under some conditions after repetitive changes to Field Map DisplayAs language setting
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.3.4 (Mar 29, 2011)
- - Various changes to correct error messages caused by changes to current Outlook environment after a template was saved and then subsequently recalled (i.e. missing user-defined fields due to custom form changes)
- - Fixed "Drag 'n Drop" to enable re-sequencing of output fields on export and corrected
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.3.3 (Mar 29, 2011)
- - Corrected issue with null value birthday/anniversary fields
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.3.2 (Mar 29, 2011)
- - Gender field checked for for first character capitalization on values
- - Corrected error gnerated when contact folder contained a (period)
- - Empty rows/records in MS Excel/ Access/MSSQL data sources skipped on import
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.3.1 (Jan 7, 2011)
- information no longer retrieved by default when contact folder initially selected reducing potentially significant startup delays when a very large contact folderis selected particularly with large numbers of user-defined fields.
- Check for MAPI individual field errors no longer done of all fields when folder selected reducing startup delays particularly for large contact folders with large numbers of user-defined fields. Mapi Error check now only done on fields if a MAPI Error has been encountered when attempting to read contact data (more info in help file)
- Export field size max for Excel fields limited to 32000 characters (Excel cell size max)
- Export field size max for MS Access fields limited to 65000 characters (Access memo field max)
- Corrected issue when using field
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.3.0 (Dec 23, 2010)
- - DataPort Standard / Advanced editions combined. CDP Adv Ed becomes DataPort 3 (excluding capability to import from an Outlook contact folder). Refer to product page for full details. Registered owners of CDP Adv Ed will recieve free upgrade to ContactGenie MutliPort.
- - Export text types for MS Access tables defined as Text(255) instead of if the source length less than 255 characters - will dynamically change to if any contact item contains a text length > 255 characters for a text based field
- - Corrected potential error occuring when assigning filter criteria
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.2.7 (Nov 7, 2010)
- - Corrected issues where under some circumstances UDF fields were not being updated when importing using Allow All mode
- - Corrected error occuring when selecting fields from a as fields that were not properly initialized (Boolean, Numeric etc). Empty fields initialized to False for Boolean, zero for numerics and zero for Gender (= unspecified).
- - Gender field set to numeric equivalent if field contains or - non-English alphabetic gender values set to 0 = unspecified
- - Can no longer select every mapped field as an field and a warning message will be displayed if more than 5 fields are selected
- - Updated Error Handling system
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.2.6 (Oct 12, 2010)
- Bugfix: Corrected processing of non-CSV multi-line text files
- Bugfix: Corrected suffix parsing error when [FullName] field specifically mapped on import where either [FullName] value only contained a single word name or lastname starting with the letter [I]
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.2.3 (Sep 14, 2010)
- - Updated CG error reporting system
- - Corrected error reading CSV file om import
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.2.2 (Sep 14, 2010)
- - Corrected potential error when using "SaveAs" for an import template
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.2.1 (Aug 24, 2010)
- New:
- Unicode text files supported on import (Unicode character set must be the same as that set in Regional settings (future update will allow conversion between different character sets)
- Excel file format supported for export
- Two new "Add Only" options ( &
- Changes:
- With the addition of MS Excel to the export output formats, CSV files created by CDP will always use a comma as the delimitor. CSV saved by MS Excel in regions where the list separator character is something other than a comma, the input data file muse be imported as a file with the delimitor character set to the regions list separator character.
- Tab delimited text file processing enhanced to deal with tab-delimited multi-line field files created by Outlook that are not properly processed by MS Excel or Access
- Processing method changed to bypass/eliminate random "Outlook has encountered a problem and needs to close" message when retrieving contact items using custom forms on some systems
- Enhanced processing to remove extraneous fields added by Outlook to the Contact item UserProperties collection during custom form design
- FullName standardization function removed as an option
- CG error handling system expanded to handle more obscure error conditions
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.1.6 (Aug 24, 2010)
- Bugfix:
- Corrected error occuring when non-English field names selected for export
- Changes:
- CSV default field delimitor set to regional list separator character to conform to MS Office. When same CSV file is used with a different regional setting, it becomes a custom-delimited file
- Field map uses user setting default character set enabling creation of based text files
- Faster processing of Personal/Org forms libs on startup
- Selecting any "root" node in Outlook field map will also automatically select/de-select all sub-nodes
- Contact folder names cannot contain a period for use by QuickPort
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.1.5 (Aug 24, 2010)
- Bugfix/Changes:
- Parsing algorithm enhanced when importing field addressing name value formats starting with or . This also corrected an issue of an extraneous comma being included when no initials were included in a FullName value consisting of . FullName values consisting of not parsed correctly when importing in Outlook, are parse correctly in CDP. Recognized suffixes are restricted to
- Changed field type validation for Excel files which resulted in field type comparison error occurring when the first row in a new data source had different fields populated then the worksheet used to create a template. This issue is specific and exclusive to Excel file data sources and only if the different columns are populated when importing via a template.
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.1.4 (Aug 24, 2010)
- BugFix/Change:
- enhanced error handling for situations involving
- improperly constructed custom forms resulting in extraneous and invalid fields
- Excel workbooks incorrectly named or improperly constructed - generally involving files received/downloaded from certain 3rd party services or files created via 3rd party processes
- folder path names cannot contain a period followed by a space anywhere within the path for any MS Access or Excel file
- Number of fields that be selected/mapped for either import/export restricted to 250 for any single task
- folder path for default files will automatically be set to the "application path" if the windows account name contains a period followed by a space (i.e. John A. Smith)
- Corrected "element not found error" when listing Outlook fields when a user-defined field contained a period and also encountered a MAPI retrieval error
- Number of items that can be imported without be registered set to 100
- Corrected error resulting from a custom form being used but not available either because Exchange Org forms library not accessible (where applicable) or form no longer published to any library (folder, personal or Exch Org)
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.1.3 (Apr 27, 2010)
- Corrected double commas appearing in FileAs field if "FullName" name field imported in "LastName, Firstname MiddleName format and FileAs format set to LastName, FirstName
- eliminated error occuring when processing Excel workbook created by external process containing invalid underlying references in Excel file schema
- Eliminated trailing CRLF characters when importing less than 4 street lines
- Corrected issue related to importing multi-value keyword fields. Duplicate values contained in imported value are removed prior to updating Outlook keyword field when import option set to "append to keyword value"
- Ability to change general default settings after recalling a saved template enabled
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.1.2 (Apr 27, 2010)
- Enhanced processing and error handling for issues generated by custom fields that are either invalid, duplicates, have names that are invalid database field names, or are assigned numeric field names.
- Addtional performance enhancements when updating a large number of existing user-defined fields on a per contact basis
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.1.1 (Apr 13, 2010)
- Corrected issue for text field imported to Body/Notes field only imported 255 characters
- Added additional error reporting when selecting contact folders with invalid EntryIDs
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.0.15 (Mar 23, 2010)
- Increased number of records that can be processed while unregistered to 250 contacts for both import/export
- Added ability to select contacts with populated fields only for export
- Changed export procedure for faster processing times
- Corrected "Error 6 Overflow" condition when errors encountered during Personal/Org Forms library initialization scan
- Corrected contact selection issue for source contact folder using message class published in Org forms library
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.0.10 (Mar 23, 2010)
- Corrected error caused by single quote character in Message Class name
- Corrected issue where some text fields not correctly updated in Outlook '2000 environments
- Added "Leave As Is" option to default settings for FileAs and EmailDisplayAs fields for both Import/Export options
- Added additional error checks for hosted Exchange accounts
- Removed Part fields from criteria field selection
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.0.9 (Mar 23, 2010)
- Corrected error encountered when processing text files with no headers
- Corrected issue when processing multi-line tab delimited text file with no text qualifier specified
- Folder "ClearAll" parameter not set correctly when recalling a template
- Corrected error tjat could occur when changing import mode multiple times between "Add" and "Update" multiple times
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.0.8 (Mar 23, 2010)
- corrected issues involving template recall and command line processing
- Corrected errors caused when changing field names to different languages after some fields already mapped
- Corrected issue when mapping fields using keyboard (introduced in version 1.0.6)
- Updated error reporting system
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.0.6 (Mar 23, 2010)
- Removed StoreID from export mapping field list - not for use in QuickPort/DataPort export functions
- Corrected export issues related to Account and EntryID causing an error under some conditions
- Corrected error exporting to MS SQL table under certain conditions
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.0.5 (Mar 23, 2010)
- Initialization processes modified to minimize issues with hosted and disconnected Exchange accounts
- Some numeric field types not imported into target text field
- EmailDisplayAs not formatted according to default setting in all cases
- Text (CSV etc) records with no data in any fields generated an error (not the same as a blank line in the text file which did not result in an error)
- (Add User Fields) button remained visible when template recalled using a custom form
- Internal component updates
New in ContactGenie DataPort 3.0.3 (Mar 23, 2010)
- Format settings for FullName, FileAs and EmailDisplayAs fields changed to one of the standard options be default and corrects issue where FullName and/or FileAs fields were not being correctly updated. These settings are independent of Outlook settings and must be set accordingly for desired option (see help file for more info)
- Date/Time values were not always corrected to/from UTC/Local values
- Corrects intermittent problem where Outlook issues an "Early Termination" message when importing to a contact folder using a custom form. Outlook is not used for any QwkPort functions but is required to retrieve custom form information. This problem only occured if Outlook was running at the same time as QuickPort and a custom form was in use.
- When recalling import import - Full Name fields not updated
- Text file header not processed correctly when run repeatedly
New in ContactGenie DataPort 2.0.219 (Sep 25, 2009)
- Corrected issue where (##) multi-part fields not being imported when last field in field map was empty in "Add Only" import mode.
New in ContactGenie DataPort 2.0.218 (May 5, 2009)
- Problem corrected when recalling templates using a custom form which have no custom fields defined in the form (i.e. - all fields in the form associated with standard Outlook fields only)
New in ContactGenie DataPort 2.0.217 (Feb 24, 2009)
- Corrected inaccurate error message appearing in some cases retrieving a template in some cases (issue introduced in version 2.0.216)
New in ContactGenie DataPort 2.0.216 (Feb 18, 2009)
- Removed redundant items from Options menu (Check First Contact & Check Custom Fields)
New in ContactGenie DataPort 2.0.215 (Jan 28, 2009)
- Corrected issue where CGD generated user-defined fields were not being created when field name contained underscore character (not legal character in Outlook naming convention for UDF
New in ContactGenie DataPort 2.0.202 (Mar 9, 2007)
- Native support added for MS Access '2007 (.accdb) and MS Excel '2007 (.xlsx, .xlsm) input file types. Only first 255 columns will be processed in Excel '2007 worksheet/range.
- Corrected issue when emptying contact folder prior to importing
- Corrected problem displaying custom field info after selecting folder on custom form info.