Change History Log for EasyManager For Windows ---------------------------------------------- CHANGES FROM VERSION 2.5.1 -------------------------- - Added capability to filter by a component of the date, i.e. now you can filter by this/next/previous day/month/year. - Added URL/Web attribute for Person, Business, and Account objects. - Added capability to Dial a phone number in Windows 95/NT. It uses the default dialer that you have setup under Windows 95/NT to dial. - Added capability to send Email using your default emailer. - Added capability to open Url/Web address using your default browser. - Added capability to copy postal address to clipboard so you can easily paste it in another application. - You can now print labels starting from any row/col. See the Page Setup for labels. - You can now display/print one label only of the selected object. by checking the "Show selected objects only" check box in the EasyLabel definition. - Added right button context sensitive menu to quickly view the phone/fax numbers, email addresses, Url/Web addresses, and postal addresses within the menu itself. - Right button context sensitive menu now is available from EasyLists, EasyLook and EasyEditor. - Added hints to help you in editing attributes of objects. Added general hints to make you more productive. - Changed the edit behavior within EasyList/EasyEditor such that when you start editing a cell, it will replace the old contents of the cell. Previously it appended to the previous content. - EasyList and EasyLabel menus are now sorted alphabetically. - Added capability to duplicate EasyFilter, EasySort, EasyList, and EasyLabel definitions. - Added password protection. - Added incremental search capability from within EasyLook. Now you can do incremental search and the object is selected everywhere. - Added capability to search for more attributes than key attribute depending on the object within EasyLook. For Person object it now searches for Name, Alias and CompanyName. For Business, it now searches for business name and additional name. For Account, it searches for account name and description. - Renamed "Title" attribute of Person object to "Mr./Ms./...". - Added 2nd street address field for postal addresses. CHANGES FROM VERSION 2.5 ------------------------ - Fixed a bug which corrupted the user customization file. - Fixed filter logic when trying to build a complex filter rule using parenthesis, AND and OR operators. - Other minor issues were fixed. CHANGES FROM VERSION 2.0 ------------------------ - New Object "ToDo" keeps track of things to do. The objects can be prioritized, and grouped in different groups. Reminders, birthdays and marriage anniversaries automatically appear in the todo list so you are reminded of the important dates in one place. - New Object "Reminder" keeps track of things to be reminded on specific dates and also at specified intervals (weekly, monthly, etc.). - International Date format support. Date format is automatically set using the Windows date setting (support for MMDDYYYY, DDMMYYYY and the date separator, does not support YYYYMMDD as I didn't think there was real user for it.) - Significant improvement in EasyLists ease of use and performance. o Added Right Mouse Button context sensitive menu that you can use to quickly delete objects, jump (scroll) to objects, resize column to fit text, look up phone numbers, email addresses, and more and put them on clipboard (and in future dial/send email). o EasyList now supports adding/removing any attribute that takes multiple values (phone/fax numbers, email addresses, Belongs To Groups, etc.) easily using the context sensitive Right Mouse Button menu. Simply right click in the appropriate cell, where you want to add/remove a new phone number etc, and click on the appropriate menu item. o Significant performance improvements have been made when adding multiple attributes, deleting objects. Previously the whole list used to be redrawn, now only the cells that have changed are redrawn. - Significant enhancement to EasyLook: o Enhanced so objects can be selected from EasyLook directly by clicking on the Id column (col zero). Thus it can be used to easily and quickly "FIND" objects. o Added Right Mouse Button context sensitive menu that you can use to quickly select and delete objects, put phone numbers and email addresses on clipboard (and in future dial the number). - Fixed bugs in EasyFilter when filtering on set attributes. It now produces correct results. - Phone numbers are now split into country code, area code, local phone number, and extension. This will help in the future to support the dialing feature. - New account types have been added: Pay By Phone, Login/Web, Calling Card, Membership, and Insurance. - New attribute (Alternate Address) of Person object to specify an alternate address of the person. - When printing EasyList, it now prints the current date/time in the footer. - Renamed attributes of Person from "Home Tel Numbers" to "Home Phone", and "Work Tel Numbers" to "Work Phone". - Windows (EasyLists and EasyLook) that were open during the last session of EasyManager when the file was closed, are now reopened automatically when the file is reopened. - Status bar now shows current day, date and time. CHANGES FROM VERSION 1.8 ------------------------ - New Object "Account" keeps track of addresses, account no., etc. for all your accounts like subscriptions, bank cards, credit/check cards and store cards. - EasyFilter feature lets you filter objects in EasyLists and EasyLabels to view only the objects you want to. You can filter using any criteria you want. - EasySort feature lets you sort objects in EasyLists and EasyLabels to view objets in the order you want to. You can sort on any attribute you want to, and define any number of sort keys you want to. - Person names are now automatically split into first, middle and last names by EasyManager - and you can access them separately. - EasyLabels are now non-modal windows. - Embedded quotes and backslashes are now allowed in any string field. - Added "Title", "Date1", "Num1", "Num2" attributes (fields) to Person object. - The first time you create EasyList or EasyLaabel window, it now always appears within the screen. Previously it sometimes used to go offscreen, and you had to press "Window -> Cascade" to get it back. - Runs on Win95 as a 16-bit application. - Renamed following internal names of attributes: - Person : comment to comments - Business : comment to comments - Phone : description to comments If you have used these attributes in defining your own EasyLists, or EasyLabels, then you will need to reedit the EasyList/EasyLabel definitions to reflect the attribute names correctly. CHANGES FROM VERSION 1.7 ------------------------ - Enhanced to support non-ascii characters (all one byte characters) implying that it can now support european languages. - Supports 5 text additional text fields for Person Objects, and 3 text fields for Business and Group Objects. - Added "Belongs To Groups" attribute to Person Objects, so the groups to which Person Objects belong to can be specified while editing the Person Object. - Added capability to change fonts in which labels are generated. - Minor bug fixes to the Header displayed in the Print Dialog when the print dialog is opened multiple times in the same session while printing EasyLists. CHANGES FROM VERSION 1.5 ------------------------ - Supports Import of CompuServe Address Book. - Added Accelerator Key "Ctrl+J" to jump to the object referred to by an attribute of the object being displayed. CHANGES FROM VERSION 1.0 ------------------------ - EasyLabel feature added to print labels and address books. - EasyImport feature added to import from text files. - Support to share home telephone and home fax numbers. - Enhanced EasyEditor to step through records in sequential order. - Bug fixes. - Renamed program from EasyXchange to EasyManager.