Please note the following release dates for Handheld Contact:
Week of March 13 - Handheld Contact for Android 3.0.3
Features
- Caller ID: Automatically see the name of Act! Contacts when they call you on your phone. Handheld Contact no longer requires contact export to enjoy caller ID.
- HHC Secure+: A misplaced device or unauthorized user is a serious risk to your organization. HHC Secure+ utilizes HIPAA-compliant security features to protect your organization’s Act! data falling into the wrong hands. Available with new subscriptions or as an upgrade for your existing subscription.
- Monthly Task List Filter: You can now filter your Handheld Contact Task List to only show activities from the current month. Selective Contact Export
- Default launch screen: Choose your favorite landing page in Handheld Contact, and this new build will load with it by default whenever you launch the app
- One-press E-mail invitations: Schedule an Activity in Handheld Contact and with a single press—just like Act!—create an e-mail invitation to associated contacts. Recipients will seamlessly see events in their calendar if they accept.
- Double the detail in Notes, History, and Activities: Details in Activities, Notes, and Histories now support double the content — up to 2000 characters.
- Business card scanning integration: Seamlessly scan business cards and add contacts to Handheld Contact with CamCard or other similar card scanning apps (The card scanning app must have the ability to interact with accounts added to your device).
- New Activity Defaults: Configure defaults for Activity Type, Priority, Alarm, Duration, and Timeless fields and Handheld Contact will present these for you when scheduling a new Activity.
Other Improvements
- Fixed issue that may have prevented users from scrolling through text in the Home address field.
Week of March 13 - Handheld Contact for iOS 7.1
Features
- Background syncing that boosts performance and usability (Requires iOS 9 or higher): The Handheld Contact for iOS app now loads faster and delivers a smoother end user experience thanks to background syncing. You no longer need to keep the app open for Handheld Contact to sync up-to-date Act! data.
- Caller ID: Automatically see the name of Act! Contacts when they call you on your iPhone. Handheld Contact no longer requires contact export to enjoy caller ID.
- HHC Secure+: A misplaced device or unauthorized user is a serious risk to your organization. HHC Secure+ utilizes HIPAA-compliant security features to protect your organization’s Act! data falling into the wrong hands. Available with new subscriptions or as an upgrade for your existing subscription.
- HHC+: Increase your contact sync limit to 45,000 with HHC+ Premium or to 30,000 with HHC+ Basic. Available with new subscriptions or as an upgrade for your existing subscription.
- Monthly Task List Filter: You can now filter your Handheld Contact Task List to only show activities from the current month. Selective Contact Export
- Selective Contact Export: Only export the contacts that matter. If you don’t need all your Act! contacts in your native contacts app you can now customize the export experience and only include those in Favorites or any Saved Searches.
- Default launch screen: Choose your favorite landing page in Handheld Contact, and this new build will load with it by default whenever you launch the app
- Double the detail in Notes, History, and Activities: The Regarding field in Activities and Notes as well as the Details field in Histories now support double the content — up to 2000 characters.
- One-press E-mail invitations: Schedule an Activity in Handheld Contact and with a single press—just like Act!—create an e-mail invitation to associated contacts. Recipients will seamlessly see events in their calendar if they accept.
- Business card scanning integration: same as described for Android release above.
Other Improvements
- More robust handling of large databases for HHC+
- Fixed issue that may have created duplicates on Contact Update
- Improved interface and handling of "Scheduled With" behaviour in Activity scheduling.
- Timeless toggle for Activity Defaults.
- Improved reliability.
Week of March 13 - Handheld Contact Computer Application 4.1.1.0
** Compatible with Act! 2013 (v15) to v19
Improvements
- Support for 2000 characters in Activity and Note Regarding fields and History Details field.
- Improvements to HHC+ support.
- Improvements to permission controls to control end user's Handheld Contact mobile app behaviour.
Please note, Handheld Contact may pull a feature listed above based on feedback from Beta testers or end-users.