What's New in ASCON ?

Prepared by Duncan Murray 8-Dec-2002 (C) Copyright 2000-2002 Acute Software

New in Version 3.0

  • New interface allows much faster finding, browsing and viewing contact details
  • Has 'Alphabet quick jump' on the Left hand side of the screen, and allows any combination of fields to be displayed at once - you can sort by these fields by clicking on the column header
  • Ability to import from CSV files (exported contacts from Excel CSV, Outlook, Outlook Express or Palm)
  • Contacts can be exported to CSV
  • You can now choose ANY fields on the screen or the printed reports
  • Example contacts database included which allows you to see the results of ALL the reports
  • Bulk emailer works with groups or selected contacts - also includes standard editable templates for commonly used emails (ie 'thanks for your order', 'here is the info on our product [nnnn]'
  • Option to display contact details in a web page (works if IE is installed on machines greater than 233Mhz)
  • NEW - utility 'MergeContacts' merges data from mutliple ASCON databases (and CSV files) and automatically removes duplicates, re-indexes and standardizes the date formats