The Spring launch of Act! Growth Suite ushered in many new exciting commercial bundlings to help customers grow their business with better value. However, it also introduced Act! 21.1, a new service pack to the version released in November of 2018, and it contains many exciting new features, upgrades, and compatibilities.

The following is a quick bullet point summary: 

New features/compatibility

• Windows Server 2019 certification
• Office 2019 Certification
• Office Integration support for Chrome – Provides support for all Office integration functionality to Chrome users
• Office integration installer clean-up – Removes unrequired services and files following our v20.1 changes (removes redemption.dll, HistoryQueue, and Act! Outlook Service)
• Act! Insight Marketing view – Display a performance summary of sent campaigns, and also opportunities created from campaigns.
• AMA Asset tracking – New asset tracking module to measure engagement and performance of PDF and YouTube marketing assets.
• AMA campaign calendar – New calendar view giving a daily, weekly or monthly view of sent and planned campaigns.
• AMA HTML editing – this feature is now available to Complete tier customers
• Allow sync sets for web created remotes – Provides full sync set functionality and advanced creation options to web client users.
• New ‘System Manager’ user role – Provides access to various database admin functions through a new console. No access to database records or customization features.
• Active directory support – Adds support for login authentication and user management via Active Directory
• Proxy licensing – Adds support for licensing via a proxy server, so licensing calls can be centralized.
• New licensing UI – Update the activation wizard UI to fit with Act! UI, resolve usability issues and defects, and allow full localization
• Getting Started wizard – Accessible from the Welcome Page, this allows direct data migrations from key competitor products (Zoho, Salesforce, Dynamic, Pipedrive) as well as common file types. 

To view a video library of all these new features, click HERE.

Other feature improvements

• Custom Tables enhancements
  • On the Assign dialog, add filter and keyword search options to help locate the required record (build 1.55.0)
  • Creating a layout via web should prompt that the layout needs to be saved to the server, otherwise changes are lost. (build 1.55.0)
  • Allow mail merge to reference ‘My Record’ fields, as per the standard Act! mail merge feature (build 1.55.0)
  • On creating a new table, automatically add the default fields as the default columns to display (build 1.55.0)
  • Trying to use Edit Field or Field Security on a system field does nothing. This should provide an information dialog. (build 1.55.0)
  • Provide an additional mail merge option which lists the custom table records on a contract (e.g. for sending a list of support tickets) (build 1.55.2)
  • Change Progress field to function as a slider in the web client (build 1.55.2)
  • When opening Manage Custom Tables whilst on table's main list view, pre-select that specific table from the list. (build 1.55.2)
    
    
• APFW navbar improvement – Provides a scrollbar should the available navbar options run off screen
• Branding updates - Premium Plus branding no longer appears when Custom Tables is enabled. Act! Premium in-product logo now just appears as ‘Act!’
• AMA demo data – Adds sample campaign data to the 2019 demo database
• APC – Enforce email address for new Act! users – Forces new or edited users (on APC only) to have an email address as their user name. This provides early support for a future Act! development which will link Act! to tools for the customer to manage their subscription or cloud account.
• Remove APFW startup view prompt – This caused support calls and issues with pop-up blockers so has been removed.

Swiftpage is expected to release this new upgrade on Thursday, May 2nd for North American customers, with localized versions for French Canadians and Germans expected out later in May.

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