Contents
Overview
Requirements
Installation
Quick Start
Operation
Images Tab
Mail Merge Tab
Setup Tab
How To...
FAQ
Troubleshooting
Contact
PhotoACT is an ACT 2000 add-on that allows you to associate and display one or more Photos or Pictures with each contact in the ACT! Contacts database.
The source of these pictures can come from:
- Files from your hard drive
- Digital Cameras
- Scanners
- The Clipboard
- Other Windows Applications (Drag-n-Drop)
PhotoACT
All other minimum requirements are usually satisfied by virtue of having ACT! installed and running.
1. Download the PASETUP.EXE
file.
2. If ACT! is running, close it before proceeding.
3. Once downloaded, run PASETUP.exe
4. Follow the Installation prompts. If prompted to restart
your system, please do so.
5. Launch ACT!, Select Contacts and select the PhotoACT Tab
The best way to gain a quick appreciation for the capabilities of PhotoACT is to open the sample database (PhotoACT.DBF) provided with your installation.
There should be an icon for this database in the PhotoACT Folder which, when double-clicked, will force ACT! to open this database.
Alternatively, you can select the database directly from "C:\Program Files\PhotoACT\PhotoACT.dbf"
Once the database is open, select the "Contacts" View. You should now see the PhotoACT Tab in the bottom half of the contact record. Select this Tab to see the images associated with the current contact.
The PhotoACT interface is represented as a Tab in the ACT! Contact View.
Within the PhotoACT Tab, there are three sub-Tabs: 1) Images, 2) Mail Merge, and 3)Setup
The default Images Tab displays thumbnail versions of each picture associated with the current contact.
The Mail Merge Tab controls settings used for performing mail merge operations with MS Word using the ACT! contact information and the photos associated with the contact.
The Setup Tab is used to configure PhotoACT.
As each contact is displayed, PhotoACT searches the contact's record for any images associated with it. If found, each image is displayed as a thumbnail in sequential order.
Primarily, the images displayed are representations of files attached to the Notes/History section of the contact's record.
Additionally, PhotoACT can search the contents of specific fields for references to images also. The fields looked at in this case are specified in the Mail Merge Tab. These "PhotoACT Fields" serve two purposes: 1. They act as placeholders for images in merge templates. 2. They can contain filenames of images to be displayed along with the other attached files.
For example:
If the User 1 field contained the data "C:\My Photos\apicture.jpg", PhotoACT will display the apicture.jpg file in the Images Tab
Email attachments and Faxes can now also be displayed. This is also achieved via respective entries in the Notes/History. When PhotoACT encounters an email entry, it searches the corresponding email data for any attached files. If found, they are displayed with the other images. Similarly, WinFax log entries are used to locate the source fax file and display thumbnails of each page in the fax - if this option is selected.
To report problems or for additional support, please email your questions to support@PhotoACT.net
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