An essential AddOn when integrating Act! with Microsoft Outlook
Designed to enhance your Act! and Outlook integration needs, Act4Outlook passively attaches all outbound Outlook emails to the appropriate contact's History. It also offers the enhanced ability to create contacts and activities right from within your Outlook inbox. With Act4Outlook, you can disable the Address book integration between Act! and Outlook that can create a system overhead.
Not limited to the inbox, though, Act4Outlook can safely send your Outlook contacts and calendar items to Act! without fear of mass duplicates or calendar corruption. Act4Outlook allows you to send contact or calendar items with a click of the mouse, allowing you to choose what goes into Act!.
This is perfect for people that create appointments in their calendar with Siri or accept invitations or VCards with Outlook or mobile device. Other synching solutions force all items to sync, but Act4Outlook gives you control over what you send to Act!.
New in v7...
One-way Contact Syncing:
The user will be able to set a direction for contacts to be pushed, from Act! to Outlook or Outlook to Act!, and this new version will implement these pushes on a scheduled basis (as frequently as every 5-minutes). Unlike Act!, our addon currently has the ability to push one or more contacts manually in either direction, so a user simply sets the direction they'd like contacts to be pushed automatically, and they can easily push the other way manually.
One-way Calendar Syncing:
Much like the Contact sync described above, the user can set a direction to push activities automatically and leave the rest for manual pushes. We expect this feature to be great for people who create appointments or accept invites on their phones, or those who need their personal calendar to reflect their Act! calendar, as well.
One-way push buttons for both:
If you are new to Act! and you want to create an Act! database from your Outlook, Act4outlook makes it easy. There are now on-demand push buttons to move your contacts and/or calendar from Outlook to Act!.
History Suppression:
the ability to suppress History recording when sending emails to specific domains (currently this is only supported with inbound emails)
No matching contact alert:
add a popup if the email address you are sending to is not in the database, and then present an option to create that new contact or attach to a different one.
Activity type selection:
When creating an activity from email, we've added a preference to set a specific activity type (currently it defaults to Call)
Location field visibility:
When creating an activity from email, the Location field is currently greyed out unless "Schedule Meeting in Outlook" is selected. This option will be enabled by default now.
Activity Attachments:
When creating an activity from an email, you can now attach the email to the activity (including any attachments on the email).
