News and Product Updates

January 14, 2008 -- Version 3.1.3, Software Version 3.0.9

New features:
• Contact Group Add/Removal Logging
  Lyrek now logs when Contacts are added to or removed from Contact Groups.

August 24, 2007 -- Version 3.1.2, Software Version 3.0.9

New features:
• Merge Contacts - Set Active Address
  When merging duplicate contacts, users may now select an active address (Company, Local/Hotel, Home, Other)
• Search by Contact Group
  Users can now limit Event Contacts View and Event Contacts Seating lists by Contact Group.
• Merge Contacts - Create Local/Hotel
  Users may now create a new Local/Hotel address when merging duplicate contacts.
• Search Duplicate Companies
  Users can now search for duplicate companies from the Contact Advanced Search page.
• Search Duplicate Locals/Hotels
  Users can now search for duplicate locals/hotels from the Contact Advanced Search page.

August 18, 2007 -- Version 3.1.1, Software Version 3.0.9

New features:
• Media Type / Department Condense
  Lyrek now automatically strips duplicate Media Types (Classifications) and Departments and re-assigns Null data to "None" prior to Import, Import Overwrite Contacts and AJAX Import system.
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• Lists Management
  Administrators may now merge or rename Media Types (Classifications) and Departments with the new Lists Management Tool.
• Import Overwrite Contacts Updates
  Imported Contacts with blank columns now overwrite existing data to prevent address conflation.

August 1, 2007 -- Version 3.1, Software Version 3.0.9

New features:
• Lyrek Supervised Import
  Users may now supervise import of contacts to discern overwrite, delete, add, and pending options through a breakthrough AJAX Import system. The new import system is configured to work with the Lyrek Enhanced User Logging.
• Update Information (RSVP Confirmation)
  Event Invitees may now update all four (4) addresses in the systme when they receive an event invitation, and select which address is to be active. General Company and Local/Hotel Information is uneditable.
• Rename Contact Groups
  Lyrek now enables users to rename contact groups, in addition to previous duplicate, merge and delete functions. All renamed contact groups are logged.

January 27, 2007 -- Version 3.0.29, Software Version 3.0.9

New features:
• Faster Server
  Lyrek has been migrated to a faster server with 2x1GB DDR2 533 FB DIMM + 2x146GB SAS Drives and SAS RAID.
• Expanded User Logging
  Lyrek now logs users' edits to contact pages, updates to auto-activate functionality and deletion of orphan companies and local/hotels
• New Contact Logging
  Lyrek now logs individual contact RSVP confirmations and time-stamps their actions and response.
• Orphan Local/Hotels and Magazines
  Orphan Companies functionality has been expanded to encompass local/hotels and magazines.

December 15, 2006 -- Version 3.0.28, Software Version 3.0.9

New features:
• Required Field Preferences
  Administrators may add to the default fields required for imports (Default: Contact First Name, Contact Last Name) to ensure batch and manual imports contain data for required fields.
• Required Fields on Import Types
  All import types now require the above fields, established by Administrators in the preferences section.
• Required Fields on Manual Contact Add
  Lyrek will not let users save manually added contacts unless they contain data for the pre-established Required Fields. Users will be prompted to enter data for required fields upon editing contacts that were created before the required fields were established.
• Required Fields on Batch Import
  Lyrek will not allow users to import batch contacts with missing data in required fields. Import will be successful for records containing valid data. Records failing the required data check are saved to a CSV for users to edit and re-import.

October 4, 2006 -- Version 3.0.27, Software Version 3.0.9

New features:
• Contact Search - Lyrek Suggest
  Based on Google Suggest technology, Lyrek searches the database for partial keywords of First Name, Last Name and Company to quickly find results.
• Add Contact - Lyrek Suggest
  Lyrek searches contact databases realtime while users manually enter contact information to avoid duplicate contacts.
• Country Search
  Options to select a country from the Lyrek advanced contact search drop-down to better refine search results.

August 23, 2006 -- Version 3.0.26, Software Version 3.0.9

New feature:
• Auto-Activate Addresses
  New database maintenance tool combs through existing records and compares each contact's active address against existing data. If contacts don't have companies assigned, autoactivate assigns home, local/hotel or other addresses as active, whichever is the first non-blank address information presented. If no active address is assigned, company is first scanned to find address information, then the other address types, in order, and active is set to the first non-blank address type presented.

August 09, 2006 -- Version 3.0.25, Software Version 3.0.9

New features:
• Company Keyword Search
  Users can now search for companies that "begin with" or "include" keywords.
• Local/Hotel Keyword Search
  Users can now search for local/hotels that "begin with" or "include" keywords.
• Overwrite Import Permissions
  Updated permissions to Contact Import so that only Administrators have the option to overwrite existing companies/contacts (bypass Duplicate Management).

July 13, 2006 -- Version 3.0.24, Software Version 3.0.9

New features:
• Potential Duplicate Search
  Administrators can now sweep the database for potential duplicates in the System Maintenance section.
• Merge Duplicates
  Find Duplicates functionality equipped with multi-merge option, to quickly merge multiple pending contacts with their duplicates within the system.
• Local Email Address
  Database contacts now have a Local Email Address to assist in mail routing for follow-ups close to event time.
• Assistant Email Address
  Assistant Email Address added to database and automatically carbon-copied (cc'd) on all correspondence with contacts.

April 22, 2006 -- Version 3.0.23, Software Version 3.0.9

New features:
• Overwrite Contacts
  Administrators now have the option to bypass the duplicate manager when importing data. Upon activation, all potential duplicate contacts will automatically be overwritten.
• Overwrite Companies
  Administrators now have the option to bypass the duplicate manager when importing data. Upon activation, all potential duplicate companies will automatically be overwritten.
• Active Address Import
  Administrators may auto-select the order of addresses to be set as the Active Address upon importing new data.

January 30, 2006 -- Version 3.0.22, Software Version 3.0.9

New features:
• Advanced Event Print Options
  Users may now select from a variety of options to print labels for events: printed, not printed, all, status "yes" and all status changes.
• Custom Email Addresses
  Users may now enter custom email addresses (or keep default: "mailer@") for event follow-ups and mass-mailings.
• Follow-up Event Details
  Users may now select if they want the Event Details visible for follow-up emails (default: visible).