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Short: Contact Manager, a centralised system-wide address book
Author: wiz@vapor.com (Simone Tellini)
Uploader: wiz@vapor.com (Simone Tellini)
Version: 1.2
Type: comm/misc
The Contact Manager is a system address book which allows you to store all
your favourite user information, web sites, ftp sites and IRC
server/channels. It is designed as a replacement to the never-ending
number of bookmarks, address books and similar GUI's that are built into
the many different Amiga Internet and communication programs.
It offers a number of features over a lot of the internal
bookmark/addressbooks:
* You can store a range of different information for one user. In the user
section, for instance, you can include their address, email address, phone
number, fax number, web site, ftp site and so on. All these options can be
utilised by other software. Voyager can use the web information,
Microdot-II can use the email address, STFax Pro can use the fax number
and so on.
* One GUI, many programs. You can store all the information you require
within one interface. No need to worry about Microdot-II's addressbook,
Voyager's bookmarks, STFax Pro's phonebook, AmFTP's server list etc.
* Interacts with other software. Microdot-II, AmIRC, Voyager, AmFTP, STFax
Pro, DOpus Magellan and IBrowse (all available separately) will all add
information to the Contact Manager from within these programs. For
example, find an email address when reading a mail within Microdot-II?
Just click 'add to addressbook' and the email address will be added to the
Contact Manager.
Some of these programs will use the Contact Manager in additional ways.
For instance Microdot will call the Contact Manager when you press to: or
cc: when writing a new message.
Textinput (the built in Vapor text editor that ships with Microdot-II,
Voyager, AmIRC, STFax Pro amongst others) now supports the ability to
insert Contact Manager information into any document. For instance, say
you were writing a message with Microdot-II, you could insert a name,
email address, phone number or any other Contact Manager field, directly
into that document. You will never have to remember a friends email
address ever again!
* Groups and sub-groups. The Contact Manager allows you to create groups
for different kinds of users/addresses. AmFTP, for instance, does not
allow you to create groups or sub-groups within its server list, however
this can be achieved via the Contact Manager.
* Multi-user support. If you are using Genesis as your TCP/IP stack, the
Contact Manager will support and allow multiple users within one
interface. If there are more than one user in your house (family members),
each user can have their own configurations (with password) so that their
information remains private.
* Plugin links. AmIRC (from v2.1) now ships with an internal Contact
Manager plugin. This allows you to add users to the Contact Manager from
within AmIRC (based on the current userlist), add interesting channels to
your Contact Manager channel list and even search for entries within
Contact Manager from within AmIRC.
For further information, please read the accompanying documentation.
Contact Manager is available from Vaporware, http://www.vapor.com.
Changes in this version:
1.2 05/11/98 - Added "Save on exit" option.
- Added DFA Addresses importer.
- Added UMS (PINT/GoodNews) importer.
- Added STRICQ profiles importer.
- Added USER and PASSWORD tooltypes/args.
- Added option to start an arexx script and iconify.
- If no user is logged into the system, it will try to
login the first user in the database.
- Fixed ASL requesters not opening on the right screen.
- Fixed bug: dragging an item from group A into group A
caused the item to disappear.
- Fixed bug: the Sort button didn't set the "changed"
status flag.