OAK!Merge 25.1.1 for Act! was released 7/16/23

Posted on July 26, 2023December 18, 2024 by oakadmin

OAK!Merge 25.1.1 for Act! was released 7/16/23 Release Notes Summary Enhancements included in OAK!Merge v 25 Supports Act! v24 and later. Does not have to be upgraded when Act is updated to a new version. Is 64 bit based code Supports larger addressable arrays for sorting and avoids out of memory errors on large merges and exports. Updated and tested with 64 bit Act v24 and v25 ( updated - also for Act v26) Does NOT work with 32 bit Act versions (...

Enhancements included in OAK!Merge for Act! Planned 24.1.2 – minor update- Beta test

Posted on June 21, 2022January 13, 2024 by oakadmin

UPDATE: 9/1/22 The 24.1.2 features have been updated and included in the full next version update: v25. v24.1.2 will not be put into general release. v25 will include these updates. v25 is expected put in Q1 of 0f 023 OAK!Merge 24.1.2 for Act! was released 6/21/22 for beta Release Notes Summary Enhancements tested in OAK!Merge for Act! 24.1.2 Supports installations of OAK!Merge on new servers where Act! has never been installed before. This solves an issue stopping the import of n...

Enhancements included in OAK!Merge for Act! 21.1.3 – minor update

Posted on July 31, 2019August 28, 2020 by oakadmin

OAK!Merge 21.1.3 for Act! v21 was released 7/31/19 Release Notes Summary Enhancements included in OAK!Merge for Act! 21.1.3 Fixed link for PDF manual on support/tools button called Help/ Manual (PDF) . In version 21.1.2, the link did not work. The manual is available in v21.1.2 via the support button on the menu item for Support Folders > Documentation

Use Case: How to restore history or notes from an Act! Backup

Posted on January 10, 2018March 14, 2018 by oakadmin

Is some history or notes missing from ACT! ??? Do you need to restore history from an old ACT! Backup? OAK!Merge for Act! Standard and above can do this. Don’t use ACT to ACT for history or notes merges. Do and EXPORT of ACT to CSV, then an IMPORT of CSV into ACT. This will extract it from the old database and import it into the newer one. You need to do a "Restore As" to restore the backup so you can open it in Act!. When you use OAK!Merge on a ACT database; you can export the ...

XLS Error while connecting to an import source or XLSX missing

Posted on November 2, 2017January 2, 2018 by oakadmin

XLS ERROR from OAK!Merge: Error while connecting to an import source. Unexpected error from external database driver(1). This Error is a new issue caused by a security update by Microsoft. Microsoft is blocking the use of XLS files. They were last used in 2003. The current format is XLSX files, and they work. We are writing a new OAK!Merge driver for XLS, XLSX, and XLSM which will be released in Jan 2018 for v20 of OAK!Merge. v19 and earlier will no longer support XLS files d...

OAK!Merge 18.2.1

Posted on March 14, 2016October 14, 2016 by oakadmin

Enhancements included in OAK!Merge 18.2.1 Supports Importing and Exporting Act! Essentials Cloud Activities and Groups. (Contacts were previously added in ver 18.1.1) User Interface (UI) enhancements such as new wording on the manual activation screens to add text for Step 1 and Step 2 Improved history imports of the task file from Salesforce in the OAK!Merge Enterprise Salesforce Data Migration kit. This package imports info from a Salesforce backup ZIP into Act! including Attach...

OAK!Merge 18.1.1

Posted on December 8, 2015October 14, 2016 by oakadmin

Enhancements included in OAK!Merge 18.1.1 Supports the new ACT v18: PRO, PREMIUM, and Web versions and Act! Essentials Cloud version First OAK!Merge version to support Importing and Exporting to the Act! Essentials cloud version including the Contacts and completed activities. Add new contacts, Delete, or update info in existing contacts. Add completed activities to existing contacts. Export all the contacts or completed activities. Delete History and Notes entries. Allows deleting...

OAK!MERGE 17.2.2 for ACT!

Posted on September 22, 2015October 14, 2016 by oakadmin

OAK!MERGE 17.2.2 for ACT! was released 9/22/15 Release Notes Summary OAK!Merge 17.2.2 is out and has one bug fix This release fixes a bug in History and Notes Exports if “RFT to TEXT” transformation is used. In OAK!Merge 17.1.2 and 17.2.0 the “RFT to TEXT” transformation is skipping data in some rows. Some plain text details do not get transformed. This resulted in a few contacts that had some plain text only info in the History details field, may have had some history details data n...

OAK!MERGE 17.2.0 for ACT!

Posted on July 12, 2015October 14, 2016 by oakadmin

OAK!MERGE 17.2.0 for ACT! was released 7/12/15 Release Notes Summary OAK!Merge 17.2 is out and has some new features including the following: Supports ACT 17.2 release as a free update to OAK!Merge 17 users. Any user running ACT 17.2 will this OAK!Merge 17.2 update or later. Added support to import files to the Documents TAB. You can now add attachments that are listed on the documents tab. These are attachments, not shortcuts or links. Added 3 Change Mode buttons on the “Select...

OAK!MERGE 17.1.2 for ACT!

Posted on February 8, 2015October 14, 2016 by oakadmin

Enhancements included in OAK!Merge 17.1.2 XML format is supported for both imports and exports. Imports must be a simple data set. An XML file for use as a source may have more than one table, but only one may be selected to be use during a merge. This is similar to picking which table or query to use in an ACCESS database or which worksheet in an Excel workbook. The XML format is an XML table. Filtered Exports now limit the export to the info linked to contacts in a group called OAKM...