Add-ons for Act! 2005

Advanced Layout Tools - General Pack offers 10 different controls to enhance your layouts. Buttons to launch a program, open a document, field which calculates an age automatically, tabs and groupbox to conveniently layout your fields, etc.

Create graphs directly in your layouts! With the ChartBar and ProgressBar controls, you can better visualize your records data with great looking graphics.

With Advanced Layout Tools - Notifier Pack, critical information will not remain unnoticed. These 2 controls draw attention to a field depending on its value or display an information bar at the top of your screen containing critical information on each contact.

With the PictureViewer pack, add picture viewers to your contact layouts to easily view, browse, sort, rotate your pictures. Also allows to give a title to each picture. A must for picture users in ACT!

Avoid heavy penalties by complying to FTC rules which require telemarketers to scrub their call list every 31 days. Advanced Do Not Call Lookup helps you identify records (contacts, groups or companies) that are or are not on Do Not Call lists.

With Advanced Field Protection, you may decide which of your users can edit any of your fields. Users may have full edit rights, edit rights when the field is empty only (in order to initialize the field) or no edit rights at all. It also allows you to hide tabs (including system tabs).

Advanced Lookup by Groups is a must-have for group users. It allows you to create contact lookups based on group membership. You may create cross-sections of groups, add groups together, create lookups of contacts belonging to one or more groups but not to other group(s). You may reverse a lookup, create a lookup of groupless contacts, contacts who belong to at least one group more than one group, etc.

With Advanced Menu management, you can disable ACT! features for some or all of your database users. For instance, you can prevent a user to use the Import/Export features or the Replace fields function, no matter what his ACT! security role is. If you find that ACT! security roles do not provide you with enough flexibility, Advanced Menu Management is for you.

The ultimate solution for producing sales reports directly in Excel! With Advanced Sales Lookup, Export and Reports, you may create Excel reports filtered by up to 2 criterias. Once your template is set up, no need to reformat, sort or total your data: your report is ready for distribution! Advanced Sales Lookup, Export and Reports also allows to create sales lookup. You can also filter and export your sales data to a CSV file (comma delimited) for easy import in another program.

Automatically number your contact, companies, groups or opportunities. The AutoNumber may include an automatically incremented number, one or more fields of the record, system variable (like date and time), etc. May run in fully automatic mode at time of creation of record, in automatic mode with a confirmation screen or in manual mode.

With ContactLinks create links between your ACT! contacts and quickly go the linked contact record(s) simply by clicking a button on your layout. You can link one or more contacts together and name the type of relationship.

Ever wished you could merge contact information in your Excel spreadsheets? With Excel Templates For ACT! you can! It works the same way as when you create a Word template in ACT!. Merging is as easy as well.

LayoutSwitch allows to associate a layout with a type of contact or group, so that this layout is automatically selected when the contact is displayed. With LayoutSwitch, no need to create separate databases for separate types of contacts. You can keep all your contacts in one database and use different layouts for your different types of contact.

Make your Company and Group Detail views behave like your Contact Detail view. Add a navigator with VCR-like buttons similar to the one ACT! offers in Contact Detail view. Create and display lookups. Synchronize your Group or Company Detail and List views. A must-have for Company and Group users.

With Purge History, you will get rid of all these unnecessary History records that clog you database. Tired of seeing all these history records named Contact deleted, Field changed, etc.? Purge History scans your History records and delete all unwanted items. It can also run a report of how many records you have in your History table, classified by types. Works with contact, group and company records.

With Quote/Invoice Maker, you get all the features of Excel Templates for ACT! plus you can easily merge sales/opportunities information in Excel for producing quotes and invoices in a snap.

Automatic calculations are made easy with TriggerCalc which allows to make any numeric calculations using your ACT! database fields (Contact, Company and Group fields). It is mainly designed to be used in conjunction with the ACT trigger feature which allows to launch a program when changing or exiting a field. This way, you can automatically re-start the calculation when one of the fields involved is modified. Supports standard operators (+,-,*,/, AND,OR, etc.). See also the Pro version with 50+ functions.

Automatic calculations are made easy with TriggerCalc Pro which allows to make any numeric calculations using your ACT! database fields (Contact, Company and Group fields). It is mainly designed to be used in conjunction with the ACT trigger feature which allows to launch a program when changing or exiting a field. This way, you can automatically re-start the calculation when one of the fields involved is modified. More than 50 functions supported: conditional statements, financial and statistical functions as well as all operators of the standard version.