ContactGenie Exporter

ContactGenie  

Exporter (Basic Ed)

Revision History

current version: v1.1.22- 2008.11.17

 

Known OUTSTANDING Issues/LIMITATIONS as of 2008.11.17

1 For some reason, on SOME PCs running Win'XP-SP2 or Win'2003-SP2, the Data Execution Prevention feature prevents various programs, including ContactGenie, from starting or an immediate Access Violation error is encountered.

While this is an infrequent issue, if it occurs on your system, please follow the steps described here or in the  <CGStartUpError.htm> document located in the program install directory (as of 2007/12/12)

2

Max text field size limited to 255 characters for all Outlook fields except for "Body", "Categories", "User1-4", and any custom fields which have a max export length of 64K.

3 Max record size that can be exported is 2000 bytes. Custom forms with very large number of fields should be exported in multiple parts (memo fields take a maximum of 16 characters within the 2000 byte record limit

 

 

Build 1.1.22- released 2008.11.17

1 Added user selectable "Force OOM Use" (OOM=Outlook Object Model) option to over-ride default MAPI use when extracting Outlook/Exchange data. Option added to address very rare cases where number of Exchange records returned is less than expected.
2 Internal component maintenance update

 

Build 1.1.21- released 2008.4.28

1 Internal component maintenance update

 

Build 1.1.20- released 2008.4.21

1 Corrected issue with field map not displaying unless cleared first if CSH file type selected
2 Corrected incorrect display number of selected fields when using bulk select/clear.

 

Build 1.1.19- released 2008.2.14

1 Corrected intermittent error when entering keys for duplicate processing

 

Build 1.1.18- released 2008.1.26

1 Corrected issue causing CGX to remain in task list upon closing on some systems.
2 Corrected error message incorrectly appearing when PST file included in Outlook profile is not found (i.e. USB key not present)
3 Corrected problem with help file not launching (introduced in version 1.1.17)

 

Build 1.1.17- released 2007.12.12

1 Internal error-handling improvements to deal with MAPI errors returned for Contact, GAL and GDG retrieval

 

Build 1.1.16- released 2007.11.19

1 "Select All Fields" option no longer automatically includes individual street address fields for Business/Home/Other/Mailing addresses to better accommodate custom forms with a  large number of user-defined fields (can still be selected manually)
2 Corrected erroneous error message caused when more then 120 export fields selected when using Excel output file type (all other file types remain with a 250 field maximum per export) .

 

Build 1.1.15- released 2007.11.6

1 Group Distribution Groups <name> field added (field name displayed and exported in English only).
2 Internal component maintenance update. Required if installing CG-MCM (Msg Class Modifier) 1.1.7+

 

Build 1.1.14- released 2007.11.2

1 Corrected error when date fields selected as part of selection criteria set.
2 Corrected errors/issues and additional information messages related to custom forms 1) published to multiple form libraries with the same name which may or may not be the same 2) with total fields > 250

 

Build 1.1.12- released 2007.10.9

1 Corrected problem related to some locales not mapped to primary language resulting in error message.

 

Build 1.1.11- released 2007.8.10

1 Custom "text" fields will export values > 255 characters in all cases in addition to standard Outlook "Body", "Categories", "User1-4" fields
2 Fixed log file creation error when System/Error Info report submitted multiple times for same issue

 

Build 1.1.10- released 2007.7.16

1 Resolved error caused by duplicate Global Distribution Group names in a multi-server environment and duplicate PDL names within the same folder 

 

Build 1.1.9- released 2007.5.18

1 Corrected error on export when NULL export setting changed from original default
2 Default for NULL value export now set to "Export Null Values as Blank". NULL values will only be exported if explicitly set.

 

Build 1.1.8A- released 2007.3.1

1 Included corrected language file. File included in original release of 1.1.8 would cause a file error.

 

Build 1.1.8- released 2007.2.27

1 Corrected issue with UDF type "double" & "Integer" fields not always exporting correctly (showed either blank or zero)
2 Corrected UDF fields with a field name identical to a standard field name generating a "457" duplicate error message.

 

Build 1.1.7 - released 2007.2.13

1 Corrected error caused by Outlook field name containing Unicode characters. All field name characters with an ASCII value greater then 255 (U+00FF) will be replaced by an "*" asterisk.
2 Notice added to setup file to run MS Exchange in <NON-CACHED> mode when exporting any Exch data to avoid missing or incomplete data from offline store.

 

Build 1.1.6 - released 2007.2.2

1 Corrected error 457 on startup when running under Vista
2 Corrected/improved error handling and processing for GAL/GDG exporting when Exchange server either offline or running in non-cached mode
3 Added <Exchange Home Server> field to available GAL fields (applicable for USERS only). Exchange must be running in non-cached mode else field will be blank.
4 Misc internal component updates
5 Updated OS internal version recognition for error reporting to include Microsoft Vista

 

Build 1.1.502 - released 2007.1.16

1 Corrected Eval caption to reflect new 100 contact export limit
2 Corrected GAL "Contacts Only" and "Users Only" modes

 

Build 1.1.501 - released 2007.1.3

1 Increased eval export limit to 100 contacts

 

Build 1.1.5 - released 2006.11.19

1 Corrected issue caused by Message Class names containing single quote marks which would cause Outlook to return an error.

 

Build 1.1.4 - released 2006.10.18

1 Updated contact folder selection process which resulted in an "Error 91" when selecting Exchange based contact folder operating in "non-cached" mode in very isolated cases for reasons unknown.  Not an issue for the majority of Exch configurations operating in either cached or non-cached mode.

 

Build 1.1.3 - released 2006.09.24

1 Corrects issue when contact record encountered containing EX address type and no EX email address present.
2 Fixed error when exporting PDL using XLS as output data source

 

Build 1.1.2 - released 2006.09.05

1 Corrected specific scenarios where correct custom fields not selected when multiple forms used with the same folder (occured in build 1.1.0) and which caused SetMapiTable error
2 Updated error reporting sub-system

 

Build 1.1.1 - released 2006.08.10

1 Corrected an setup issue that cause a startup error for some configurations
2 Incorporated start-up status screen into main product window

 

Build 1.1.0 - released 2006.08.10

1 Internal updates for multi-domain Exchange environments correcting various issues related to improper reporting of Owner IDs and folder permissions
2 Full folder scan replaced with individual folder selection significantly improving program initialization process
3 When MS Exch Proxy Address field is selected for export, 3 additional fields are automatically added to the output file for SMTPProxies, X400Proxies and NotesProxies. Each of these fields contains all the addresses for the given address type in a comma delimited format
4 GAL export options expanded to include <All>, <Contacts Only> and <Users Only> ***MS Exchange Addresslists for <All Contacts> or <All Contacts> (custom names for these lists is supported)
5 Global Distribution Groups (GDG) requires the MS Exchange <All Groups> Addresslist to exist (customized name for this addresslist is supported)
6 User-defined fields for contact folders not using a default form now determined from "All User-defined fields in Folder" list instead of from first contact created in folder
7 Text fields > 64K will be truncated to 65,000 characters on export

 

Build 1.0.2E2 - released 2006.06.14

1 Replaced corrupted install package on website causing eratic behaviour when program run - no program changes in this update. If original package worked - no need to download this release.

 

Build 1.0.2E - released 2006.06.07

1 Corrected issue related to Exch UserNames returned in "multi-domain" environments.
2 Added processing to handle situation where Public Folder permissions are not being correctly returned by the current Mapi session.

 

Build 1.0.2D - released 2006.06.04

1 Added additional handling for Exch environments running in various combinations of  Connected/Disconnected - Cached/NonCached  - Online/Offline
2 Updated issue of "Blank Exch User Name" when in cached mode
3 Corrected issue for multiple exports to same XLS file

 

Build 1.0.2 - released 2005.05.31

1 Corrected issues related to custom field names with illegal field name characters
2 Message displayed when Outlook Object Model used to export data resulting from inclusion of of mapped fields that encountered MAPI errors
3 Improved error handling for user-defined fields not contained in all contacts using standard contact form. Missing fields will be recorded in the DataErrorLog
4 CDO is no longer required
5 Revised and enhanced processing for Exch folders re: security and online/offline states
6 Addin updated so that <CommandBar> state persists between Outlook sessions

 

Build 1.0.1 - released 2005.05.01 (FORMAL release)

   

 

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