With Dash v11 and Designer v8 discounted 25% in September as our two products of the month, many people using prior versions are asking about the benefits of upgrading (learn more about this month's promo HERE). The following is a breakdown of the new features added with the latest version of each of these products:

Dash v11 (released in May 2023)

• Rewritten from VB to C#. Faster and better memory management.
• Dash data can now be viewed separately from Act, allowing for simultaneous Dash and Act! access.
• No longer uses the problematic OLEDB Views, instead uses the standard SQL tables
• Email a single dash report directly from that panel.
• Activities/Contacts that were broken by Act several versions ago, now work correctly
• Query Builder - The opportunity Status field can now be queried.
• Field selection in Query Builder now has Double Arrows, allowing users to move all fields from all entities at once.
• Query Builder now has dropdowns for open and close parenthesis.
• Printing to Excel now supports XLSX format, rather than just CSV format.
• Query Builder - Add, Delete, and COPY buttons, for easier query building in less time.
• User Interface is modernized across most views.

Designer v8 (released in April 2023)

• Rewritten from VB to C#. Faster and better memory management.
• Improved speed and performance
  • updated UI changes
  • added support for picture fields in detail view
  • made back-end changes to better support older tables that had spaces in the display name, etc.

Support Policy for Add-ons
It's also worth noting that we only support the latest versions of our perpetually licensed software. If you're using older, unsupported versions of Designer or Dash, we will not respond to bug reports that are likely fixed in the latest supported versions. Also, the latest versions are guaranteed to be compatible with all current versions of Act! Premium desktop. 

Upgrade Assurance
While we strongly suggest all customers confirm the version compatibility of any Act! add-on prior to purchase, if you upgrade your Act! within 90 days of purchasing a perpetually licensed Keystroke add-on and that add-on is not compatible with the new version of Act!, we will replace the licensing with a compatible version (if available) at no cost. Please note that the old add-on license will be disabled when a new one is provided.