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vtiger CRM 4.2 Patch 2
Sep 15, 2005
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We are pleased to announce the consolidated patch for vtiger CRM 4.2. This release includes many code contributions from vtiger community and bug fixes!

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I. Code Contributions by vtiger Community
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Thanks to Bela, Fredy, JLee, MikeCrowe, and Sholmi for their valuable contributions to the vtiger CRM development. 

Following contributions were made at vtiger Discussions under "vtiger CRM - Code Contributions" forum:

1. T2025  - 2 bugs - JLee (Same as P8180 in vtiger Discussions " Little typo in function get_lead_feild_options")

2. T2324  - Modification to the Aqua theme - Bela (Note: We have included the fix for all the themes except blue theme)  

3. T2406  - Description spanned over all columns - Fredy

4. T2431  - Search by TicketId field in HelpDesk - Fredy

5. T2524  - Scrollable related lists - Fredy

6. P9578  - Import/Export Products - JLee

7. T2196  - Fix for World Clock Bug - JLee

8. T2139  - Bug in: EditView.html - Shlomi
 
9. T2000  - Add "Assigned To" as a choice when Importing - MikeCrowe

10. T1585 - Improved Calendar - Fredy
  
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II. New Features
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1. Import/Export Products

2. Scrollable List View for related Lists

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III. Bug Fixes
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A. http://bugs.vtiger.com
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S.No ID    Subject
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1.   67  - Inventory Mgmt Related List

2.   70  - Activities - Quick Create

3.   81  - Price Book - Select Product list price

4.   82  - Inventory Mgmt Related List Issue

5.   96  - Alignment is not proper for Total and sub total

6.  108  - Without entering any value in global search if we click on search then the n an empty page is displayed

7.  113  - Security UI not good enough

8.  114  - Better icons for the inv mgmt modules

9. 428 - User Signature Issue

10. 125  - UI for New Product creation not proper

11. 129  - Advanced search requires some fields (SF.Net ID: 

12. 131  - Sorting Name in Leads

13. 143  - Product related list in Activity can be removed

14. 149  - New Ticket Creation - Group empty

15. 160  - Modified time and created time are 0 in Add Business Card

16.  406 - Clock is dislocated after delete a record

17.  407 - HelpDesk quick create- title not saved

18.  408 - Activities CustomView contact not displayed

19. 409 - After mass delete FAQ control goes to HelpDesk

20. 410 - Footer alignment changed

21. 411 - New Event Creation

22. 405 - FAQ quick create

23. 412 - Security - Activity delete

24. 413 - Security - Default Organization for Activities

25. 414 - Field positioning Sales/Support Start dates

26. 415 - Inventory�Related�List

27. 416 - Inventory�RL

28. 417 - Inventory�RL - Activity History missing

29. 418 - Ticket - Create

30. 419 - Email�-�Edit�View

31. 420 - Availability of user

32. 421 - Adding Products to Price book Validations

33. 422 - New Activity Creation - Group empty

34. 424 - History in Potential, PO, SO and Invoice

35. 425 - After delete tickets it displays empty list

36. 426 - Invoice Display in Home Page

37.  86 - File Size validation for the product image

38.  78 - Adding pricebook to products

39.  81 - IE 6 Pricebook Validations
 
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B. vtiger Discussions - Bug Tracker
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S.No ID        Subject
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40.  T1707   - Customer Portal language bug

41.  T2080   - Email doesn't work

42.  P8047   - Change Status Not Updating Modify Date

43.  P8004   - BUG modules/HelpDesk/Save.php

44.  P8301   - Additional Info to Helpdesk-Issue

45.  P8449   - Calendar icon missing at HelpDesk

46.  P8306   - Missing values in Cumulative Statistics

47.  T1802   - Still not possible to delete a contact - account relation

48.  T1398   - Issues in Contacts 

49.  T1694   - Email Editor Add Link doesn't work

50.  T1742   - Bug when assigning product from 2nd page to potential

51.  T2025   - 2 bugs

52.  T2313   - New Task Bug

53.  P8170   - Quotes popup trouble

54.  P8098   - Vendor pick list not working in Purchase order

55.  T1862   - Customize Quote Template

56.  P8159   - New Calendar Bug

57.  T2038   - Please fix these Bugs in 4.2

58.  T1696   - Accounts Website url fix

59.  T2003   - Pricebook bug 

60.  P8293   - Double entries in 'Default Organization Sharing Access'

61.  T2512   - Home upcoming activities

62.  P8030   - Meetings not held must not be shown in upcoming activities


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vtiger CRM 4.2 Patch 1
Aug 10, 2005

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New Feature:

Reports can be exported in Excel Format.

Bug Fixes:

1. Forum Post ID 6550: Can not add new product

2. SF ID1159916: settings-Company details 

3. SF ID1160084: Task - End Date 

4. SF ID1161317: date accept 0 value 

5. SF ID1161326: Lead Conversion 

6. Forum Topic ID 2038: Please fix these Bugs in 4.2

7. Internal: Make QuickActivityRegister have enddate(duedate)

8. Forum Topic ID 1696: Calendar bug fix for non-admin user

9. Forum Topic ID 1648: Converting a lead 

10. SF ID 1161344: probability is not validate if we give greater value 

11. Forum Topic ID 2223: Editing Company information

12. Interna: Calendar in Quick create in events

13. Forum Topic ID 1803: chips impossible to add more activity (task/event)

14. Forum Post ID 6733: Missing required field in New Event shortcut

15. Internal: Lead Conversion form validation

16. Forum Topic ID 2038:Please fix these Bugs in 4.2

17. SF ID 1161223: Export to PDF

18. Forum Topic ID 1693:Bad PDF output

19. Forum Topic ID 2012:Report Customization iNot working in IE

20. Forum Topic ID 1823: Translation Issue 2

21. Forum Topic ID 2038: Please fix these Bugs in 4.2

22. Internal: Invoice Qty & inventory issues in 4.2 GA

23. Forum Topic ID 1717: bug report in new sales order and PDF invoice on
online demo

24. Internal: Inventory Mgmt

25. Internal: Detail View Ui for Products Relateion in inventory is imporper 

26. Internal: SO - Popup Account - table issue 

27. Internal: Notes - Cancel/ back 

28. Internal: No of Employees Field not validated 

29. Internal: Filling with Todays date 

30. Internal: Security - Default Organization for Activities 

31. Internal: Security - Activity delete 

32. Internal: Inventory Mgmt Logging 

33. Internal: URL and URL name 

34. Internal: Feild level access for task

35. Forum Topic ID 1823: Custom Date field not working?

36. Internal: Support for Text Area Custom Field

37. Forum Topic ID 1643: Any user can change onw role for admin role? 

38. Internal: Class not set in inventory product UI

39. Forum Topic ID 2258: Nasty security bug in latest 4.2!

40. Code Contribution: Indexing code by Microwe integrated

41. Internal: Title doesn't show up

42. Forum Topic ID 1997: Fixing bugs.

43. Forum Topic ID 822:Translation-Issue

44. Forum Topic ID 1768: Contact address pulled from Acccount

45. Forum Topic ID 1753: VtigerCRM 4.0 Character causing troubles

46. 1161351: Inventory Mgmt Related List 

47. 1161347: Inventory Related List 

48. 1161415:Contacts - Related Lists - Deleting Products

49. 1161406: Assigned ToUser in Leads can be Assigned to User

50. Forum Topic ID 2092: Product Popup in New Quotes

51. Forum Topic ID 1980: Account Pop Http 404 when pickup a account in New
Sales Order

52. Forum Topic ID 2003: Pricebook bug

53. 1161337: Price Book Product Select

54. Forum Topic ID 2088: Address Information Won't Export

55. Forum Topic ID 1582: Importing Checkbox Values when importing leads

56. 1161356:Email - quick create date and time sent date not validated

57. 1160290: Potentials incorrectly pulls up deleted notes in related

58. Internal: Form Validation for Add Business Card

59. Internal: Single, double quotes problem in ticket comments and FAQ
comments

60. Forum Topic ID 1612: Misbehaviour on validation of number fields


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vtiger CRM 4.2 GA
July 18, 2005

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We are pleased to announce the latest version of vtiger CRM. This release includes many new features and few bug fixes!

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A. New Features
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  * Activity Management

  * Manage recurring events (daily/weekly/monthly/yearly)

  * Group/Shared calendar to plan meetings with vtiger CRM users without time conflicts

  * UI enhancements related to overdue tasks in Activities list view 

2. Lead Management

 * Capture leads directly from your Web site to vtiger CRM

 * Customize Online Lead Form as per your Web site requirements

 * Create mailing lists and execute E-mail marketing campaigns

 * Add multiple products to the leads

 * Customize list of the leads as per users' requirements

 * Create fully customizable lead reports

 * Lead conversion mapping for all the custom fields

3. Account & Contact Management

 * Generate quotes, sales orders, and invoices directly from the accounts and contacts 

 * Track history of all the products purchased by customers

4. Products Management

 * Create Price Books and associate products with Price Books

 * Procure products from the selected Vendors list

 * Associate Trouble Tickets and Knowledge Base articles with products

 * Ability to upload product images for easy identification

5. Sales Quotes

 * Track outstanding quotes from the quotes list view

 * Add Line Items to the quotes and update sub-total, taxes, adjustments, and grand total amounts

 * Select different prices for the same product as per customer segment

 * Create printer-friendly Sales Quotes and deliver to the prospect customers through in-built E-mail service

 * Create Sales Order or Invoice with a single click from the Sales Quote

 * Avoid duplicate work by dynamically displaying the Billing and Shipping addresses of the prospect

 * Display quotes related to accounts under the related list

 * Customize Sales Quote fields as per your organization requirements

 * Set up your company information to display your company address while creating PDF documents

6. Order Management

 * Streamline organization-wide procurement and fulfillment processes by integrated Order Management with CRM

 * Track outstanding orders from the Orders List View

 *  Procure products from the available Vendors/Manufacturers/Resellers list in vtiger CRM

 * Manage up-to-date stock position by seamless integration between order fulfillment and available stock in your warehouse

 * Customize Purchase Order (PO) and Sales Order (SO) fields as per your organization requirements

 * Avoid duplicate work by dynamically displaying the Billing and Shipping addresses of the prospect while creating orders

 * Add Line Items to the Orders and update sub-total, taxes, adjustments, and grand total amounts automatically

 * Create printer-friendly Order (PO/SO) and deliver to the Vendors/Customers through in-built E-mail service

 * Once the Sales Order is confirmed create Invoice from Sales Order with a single click

 * Periodically notify the stock position to the concerned parties in your organization so that stock is always available to fulfill the outstanding orders

7. Invoices

 * Track outstanding invoices from the Invoices list view

 * Create printer-friendly Invoices and deliver to the customers through in-built E-mail service

 * Customize Invoice fields as per your organization requirements

 * Add Line Items to the Invoice and update sub-total, taxes, adjustments, and grand total amounts automatically

 * Customize Invoice fields as per your organization requirements

 * Avoid duplicate work by dynamically displaying the Billing and Shipping addresses of the customer while creating invoices

 * Associate invoices with the General Ledger account for hassle free book keeping 


8. Help Desk

 * Manage product-wise Knowledge Base articles/FAQ

 * Associate Articles with trouble tickets and products

 * Provide public access to the Knowledge Base only after approval

 * Update Articles/FAQ in vtiger CRM as based customer suggestions & comments

9. E-mail Integration

 * Configure incoming E-mail servers on per user basis. Each user can retrieve his own E-mails 

 * Fetch E-mail messages through POP and IMAP services

 * Setup multiple incoming E-mail servers 

 * Seamless integration between incoming E-mail messages and the corresponding contacts in vtiger CRM with a single click

 * Fetch incoming E-mail messages as RSS feed in RSS module

 * Send E-mail notification to the users when records are assigned to them or there is a deadline coming up

 * Ready-to use E-mail templates

 * Populate vtiger CRM user related fields in E-mail templates

 * Export E-mail messages into CSV file

 * Fetch inbound E-mails and associate to the contacts or create E-mails directly into vtiger CRM

 * Send mass E-mails to the contacts and other users

10. Other Features

 * Lead conversion feature within module access scope

 * Generate quotes and sales orders, from the potentials

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B. Bug Fixes
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1. FORUM:1545 - Quotes, orders - working or not ? 

2. FORUM:1560 - Can not change user password & problem with ordering system

3. FORUM:5512 - In custom fields calendar, when a calendar field in created, the calendar drop down does not appear

4. FORUM:5553 - Contact with apostrophe ' in name cannot own a ticket

5. FORUM:5795 - If you change the name of admin passwords are lost !!!

6. FORUM:5810 - In contacts module Brithdate shown as 0000-00-00

7. FORUM:4501 - Error message while associating user to a group

8. FORUM:4550 - Issue related to custom drop-down list order

9. FORUM:4039- Issue with duplicating a contact

10. FORUM:4073 - Normal user with no access to the settings is anyway able to change the profile of a role.

11. FORUM:1409 - Report Export to PDF

12. FORUM:1818 - Outlook Sync applies makes Calendar appointments 2020

13. FORUM:606 File Missing: testemailtemplateusage.php 

14. FORUM:1294 - Problem with e-mail templates

15. FORUM:1050 - Subject of emails not imported - Need confirmation

16. FORUM:1276 - Converting Leads and assigning to user

17. FORUM:1270 - Bug in e-mail module

18. ORUM:1742 - Bug when assigning product from 2nd page to potential

19. FORUM:1772 - Bug: wrong date format when converting leads

20. FORUM:1559 - Tasks not working in Leads

21. FORUM: 5247 - Account search doesn't work

22. FORUM:5096 - Phone search

23. FORUM:5715 - Currency Support

24. FORUM:5795 - Roles and Passwords

25. SF1102842 - CSV import, problem with �,�,�

26. SF1097215 - Mass Delete in Accounts, Contacts and Opportunities

27. SF1025603 - Phone in Task

28. SF1093989 - picklists - I18N

29. SF1090963 - wrong header caption in activities, history

30. SF1090711 - Duplicate entries in language translation

31. SF1095038 - Import Leads - No Mapping Fields

32. SF1093132 - Lead Import Fails - v3.2

33. SF1094944 - The leads dropdown list does not update

34. SF1090715 - Error on importing contacts from cvs file

35. SF1073179 - Importing .xls files but missing one of the column header

36. SF1073159 - Importing Problem

37. SF1087482 - user not deleted

38. SF1094950 - New E-mail - Error Message

39. SF1090721 - Meeting Contact - Unable to remove

40. SF 1090717 - New Note: Field Name missing

41. SF 1230595 - Custom Calendar in Tickets not working

42. SF 1221170 - Sort Notes 

43. SF 1221036 - Orders 

44. SF 1214401 - Contact birthday translation 

45. SF 1214396 - Task start date and Calendar date scrambled 

46. SF 1218633 - Phone Search not working 

47. SF 1231325 - Error with open tickets link on home page

48. Create users without associating to any of the groups

49. Non-editable user name

50. Mandatory fields checks while configuring currency fields

51. Mandatory fields checks while configuring database backup server

52. The currency symbol which is set in Currency configuration, it is not reflected in dashboard graphs.

53. Field accessibility support not provided for Potential fields


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C. Known Issues
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1. FORUM:1816 - Outlook Plugin error in Outlook

2. FORUM:1818 - Outlook Sync applies makes Calendar appointments 2020

3. FORUM:1293 - Leads have disappeared - We turned off Leads for all users in the Sales profile. Now we have turned them back on in Settings and they still don't appear. When have restarted the server to completely restart all services just in case but that didn't fix it. Any ideas?

4. FORUM:1752 - Bug: Decimals lost in custom currency fields in products

5. FORUM:1831- Import Error CSV Leads (File size more than 2MB cannot be imported)

6. PDF report overlaps if the number of columns are more than the paper size and last few columns are hidden

7. While creating a new event from Ticket related list, ticket name is not displayed under Activity page

8. In Products related Price Book if edit link will point to Price Book edit view instead of Edit product list price

9. If an event is assigned to Group then in the users list the group members name is displayed

10. If an event is assigned to a team, if the team name is empty then also the event is being saved

11. In Lead Conversion, the type of custom field is not taken into consideration

12. If any of the events associated with recurring event is closed, all the related recurring events are also closed 

13. In Reports, The Date fields in "Filter Options" will not be retained after clicking the 'Apply Filter' button

14. When a New Sales Order, Purchase Order, Invoice and Quotes are created from a Product Detail View, Account Name and Potential Name will not be populated.

15. In a Product Detail View if 'Add to Price Book' hyperlink is clicked and if no Price Book is present in the list, and if 'Add to Product' is selected, vtiger Home page will be displayed. 

16. While generating reports the fields selected in 'Columns to Total' will not be displayed.

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D. Limitations
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1. Security is not implemented for Reports and Dashboards.

2. GIF images are not supported while generating PDF documents such as Quotes,Orders and Invoice.


NOTE: For more details about vtiger CRM 4.2 Release Notes, Please refer to the following URL:

http://www.vtiger.com/wiki/index.php/Vtiger_CRM_4_2_Release_Notes
 
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vtiger CRM 4.2 Alpha
May 31, 2005

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We are pleased to announce the latest version of vtiger CRM. This release includes many new features and few bug fixes!

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Note: vtiger CRM 4.2 Alpha is only for testing and can not be used for production purpose.

Please post Bugs at the following URL:

vtiger Discussions: http://www.vtiger.com/discussions/viewforum.php?f=12

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New Features

1. Quotes module
2. Order Management module (Purchase Orders & Sales Orders)
3. Invoices module
4. Price Books 
5. Vendor/Suppliers Management
6. Customizable Reports
7. Customizable List Views
8. Customer Self-service Portal
9. RSS module
10. Event Reminders
11. Configurable Email Notifications
12. Incoming Email Support

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vtiger CRM 4.0.1
April 29, 2005

We are pleased to announce the latest version of vtiger CRM. This release
includes some of the new features and numerous bug fixes!

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New Features
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1) Default Organisation Fields - Fields that are not needed can be made hidden across the organisation. 
2) Multiple Date format support.
3) Currency Support.
4) Customer Portal Beta Release - as an add on.

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Bug Fixes
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1) When time like '1:00' is given as input in new event, instead of '01:00',
an expection will be thrown in the calendar
2) Php warning fixes - contributed by joduba.
3) 'Sales Stage' column empty in Potentials table for Contacts and Accounts
Detail view.
4) Calendar icons not working in homepage in my pipline chart.
5) Delete confirmation for notes and attachments in all modules Related list.
6) Select Contact from Popup after navigation throws exception.
7) Duplicate entry in Notes listview, when created from Ticket Module.
8 Added 'Contact' in HelpDesk List View.
9) Issue in Description Update across modules when saved during edition.
10) Problem in Notes Update, when no attachment is given.
11) When a Custom field contains space, export query fails.
12) Intialising 'log_sql' variable in config.php - php warning fix
13) Show tickets in Detailview / Related listof contacts.
14) In Help Desk search 'Status' & 'Priority' given as combo.
15) Note Title should not be unique.
16) Problem in importing more than 1000 records.
17) In Email template big text is not supported
18 Paragraph support in email template
19) Amount size entry should be increased in Potentials (increase the digits)
20) Duplicate Email template entry when editing a template.
21) Notes and Attachment title/description display in related list
22) When selected a username in the popup window after search from
Activity/Email Detail View an exception is thrown.
23) After email export, the body field in document is empty.
24) Problem in HelpDesk Search based on Created Date.
25) When assigned, Contact Salutation type in email template, and used in
select email template, salutation type is empty.
26) Sorted by 'Contact' in Ticket List View.
27) Title field not validated when creating a new ticket
28) My Account' link in login page throws exception
29) Usename/creator will shown in all events in Calendar
30) In Account Advance Search 'State' field empty after giving a value to
search.
31) In Home Page my groups all the group entities are displayed
32) In Home Page My Activities, the Activity Link is not working.
33) The Group Name link is the User Detail View not working.
34) Email fiele length in accounts table modified from 30 to 100
35) Check Box custom field Search not working
36) Product search fields are interchaged between Basic and Advanced.
commision rate & Qty/Unit -- Moved from Basic to Advanced. Manufacturer &
category -- Moved from Advanced to Basic
37) Improper Link issue in Popup after search.
38) In Home Page My Tickets - Related to Contacts link are not working.
39) Unwanted includes in Calendar Removed
40) Sorting of Potentials in Home Page(Amount in Descending order)
41) Login History - improper login/logout time
42) Email Form Validation
43) Pipleline total not getting updated.
44) In Email List View displaying of Contact Issue.
45) Enabling Status for Call and Meetings.
46) Removing Notes, Products from Default Organisation Sharing.
47) Populating modified time during entity creation.
48) Edit and Duplicate of Attachments not working.
49) Displaying of Closed Ticket in Home Page.
50) Deleted entities are getting listed in Tracker.
51) Enabling History tabs in Leads, Contacts, Accounts and Potentials for
Activity History.


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vtiger CRM 4
March 29, 2005

We are pleased to announce the latest version of vtiger CRM. This release includes several new features and numerous bug fixes!

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New Features
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A. General

1. Database layer is redesigned for a better data integrity

2. Multiple database support for MySQL.
3. Microsoft Office Plug-in to create mail merge templates in Microsoft Word and create on-the-fly documents with customer specific data in vtiger CRM

4. Mozilla Thunderbird Plug-in to add E-mail messages and addresses from Thunderbird to vtiger CRM

5. E-mail notifications to vtiger CRM users as well as customers instantly as well as periodically

6. Search enabled for all the fields (including custom fields) in various modules

7. Database migration from version 3.2 to version 4

8. Accessories, such as World Clock and Calculator

B. Lead Management

1. Filter leads list in Leads home page based on lead status

2. Change leads owner in bulk

3. Export Leads into Spreadsheet programs

C. Account Management

1. Filter accounts list in Accounts home page based on type of the account

2. Delete accounts in bulk

3. Change accounts owner in bulk

D. Contact Management

1. Delete contacts in bulk

2. Change contacts owner in bulk

3. Create mail merge documents for contacts   

E. Opportunity Management

1. Notification of Big deals to the specific users/non users

2. Filter opportunities list in Opportunities home page based on the sales stage

3. Delete opportunities in bulk

F. Help desk

1. Automatically generate ticket ID while creating trouble tickets

2. Filter trouble tickets list in Help desk home page based on the priority of the ticket

3. Add/Modify custom fields in Help desk

G. Products

1. Enhanced the standard fields based on users feedback

2. Add/Modify custom fields in Products

H. Activity Management

1. All the activities (Tasks, Calls, and Meetings) can be managed in a Activities module 

2. Calendar user interface is enhanced, with a small calendar in Home page

3. Synchronize calendar records with Microsoft Outlook  

I. Studio:

1. Add custom fields in Helpdesk and Products modules

2. Modify the custom pick list values in all the modules

3. Custom objects for URL and boolean types

4. Enhanced user interface for product customization 
	
J. Communication Templates:

1. Mail Merge Templates to create on-the-fly Microsoft Word documents based on customer data

2. Canned E-mail Notifications through Linux Cron Job/Window Scheduler:

K. Security Management

1. Manage Profiles and associate to the roles

2. Module level access control list for profiles

3. Field level access control list for profiles

4. Organization level record sharing model

5. User management from Settings module

L. System Administration

1. Outgoing Email server configuration

2. Database backup server configuration

We have also provided the following features requested in Sourceforge.net and vtiger Discussions:

SourceForge

1. 1157343: Custom fields for tickets

2. 1108850:  Mozilla Thunderbird (Non-MS Outlook) Plugin

3. 1069886: PostgreSQL Support

4. 1050500: HelpDesk or Trouble ticketing


vtiger Discussions

1. RC1 - Leads : Sorting Lead List - by eberled

2. Database management (database backup) - by eberled and ITPM

3. Enable/Disable Import/Export features according to the user's profile - by bwoo and fredy

4. Small Calendar in Home page

5. Department instead of Account in Contact list - by joduba

6. Delete contacts in bulk - by david and Bez

7. Delete users - by Jim

8. ACL on data - Stefano

9. Groups and user level security - by Jay McDonald

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Important Notes
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* We have tested vtiger CRM 4 in MySQL database software. Though we didn't tested in other database software, we feel it should work.

* Opportunities module is renamed as Potentials

* Tasks, Calls and, Meetings modules are phased out (Activities module take care of all the tasks and events related features)
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Bug Fixes
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We have fixed the following issues reported in Sourceforge.net and vtiger Discussions:

SourceForge.net
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1. 1087474: suggestion

2. 1169597: Tab Order in data entry is inconvenient

3. 1158945: Cancel button behavior 2

4. 1158943: Cancel button behavior

5. 1161346: RC1 - Custom field Date not working

6. 1157577: Account View -- Contact Name

7. 1158932: RC1- Need "Select Product" on Potentials

8. 1158934: RC1 - Need select multiple products on Activities

9. 1158934:  RC1 - Need select multiple products on Activities - Richie Please check it is promised in sf.net

10. 1160628: Deleted tickets are still visible in the account overview

11. 1160522: minor issues in RC 1

12. 1157581: BusinessCard.php

13. 1158473: double $contact_id definition in modules/Calendar/UserCalend

14. 1157587: website character needs to be longer

15. 1157583: redirection limit for url exceeded
16. 1156560: Single quotation mark not handled when creating new note

17. 1069310: Time out during contact import

18. 1156463: Outlook Plug-in Error: wrong encryption string

19. 1111432: Meetings get duplicated views after editing

20. 1152457: V3.2 Log-In Recognition

21. 1151958: Leads "Change Status" button doesn't work

22. 1151793: Editing lead errors

23. 1145907: exporting xls to leads -

24. 1087484: user deleted problem

25. 1122448: export of opportunities

26. 1122446: upload file size hardwired

27. 1119621: PHP Error when cancelling editing of a ticket

28. 1116923: Custom contacts import fails if no last name specified

29. 1116919: CVS Import bombs when data contain single quote

30. 1032651: New Attachment - Error message


vtiger Discussions
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1. Displaying the corresponding lead in Meeting/Call/Task modules

2. Activity - missing confirmation on deleting activities - by fredy

3. RC1 - Potentials "Only my items" not working - by eberled

4. RC1 - Potentials sorting tables returns an error - by eberled

5. RC1 Helpdesk - 'Assigned to' vs. 'Group' - by eberled

6. RC1 - Helpdesk: Changing a ticket doesn't work - by eberled

7. RC1- Homepage / Helpdesk : all tickets are listed - by eberled

8. RC1 - Helpdesk : Account and Contact Name - by eberled

9. RC1- Settings: Communication Templates - by eberled

10. Unable to tab - by 829

11. Email to Contacts and Mass Mail - by Jay