Release Notes
This page lists the changes in each software update for ContactsLaw.
Updates typically affect multiple system components. Notes which relate specifically to the Desktop App are marked separately.
Latest Version (Build 251013)
This version does not affect the Desktop App.
- Calendar
- [Fix] Conflict detection for all-day events (MySQL only).
- [Change] Removed unread status for holidays and resource reservations.
- Documents
- [Fix] Smart Tags are now ignored when validating Word documents.
- [Fix] Changes to emails were lost after sending when checked out to Outlook.
- [Fix] Incorrect character set for generated emails (issues with non-ASCII characters).
- [Fix] Entry points not triggered when sending documents electronically.
- [Change] Template comments.
- [Change] Email headers for identifying subscriptions and matters are now added automatically.
- [Change] Folder can now be pre-filled when generating documents.
- [Change] Square brackets no longer required for matter reference detection.
- [Change] Improved metadata handling for emails.
- [Change] Improvements when converting Markdown documents to HTML.
- [New] Mailbox rules.
- Workflow
- [Change] Process comments.
- [New] Rules can now send existing documents electronically.
- Other
- [Change] REST API now supports HTTP/2 by default, and can opt-in to use HTTP/3.
- [New] Custom event types.
- [New] Custom related documents for businesses and members.
Previous Version (Build 250926)
- Accounting
- [Fix] Filtering accounts in the transaction editor (Desktop App).
- [New] Copy command on transaction context menu (Desktop App).
- [New] Transaction importer (Desktop App).
- Calendar
- [Fix] Microsoft 365 2-way sync could fail if items were deleted from Outlook.
- Contacts
- [Fix] Saving changes to correspondence when some addresses are inherited (Desktop App).
- [Fix] Cataloguing information did not always update after changing the template during document creation (Desktop App).
- Documents
- [Fix] Listing templates with a particular file format produced incorrect results.
- [Fix] Exporting templates that depend on other templates (fragments).
- [Fix] Templates with mismatched BEGIN and END markers could cause document generation to fail (errors are supposed to appear as comments in the final document).
- [Fix] Opening documents via the DMS App when the filename contains non-ASCII characters.
- [Fix] Word templates where content markers are placed inside Content Controls.
- [Change] Inserting tables and other block-level elements into Word documents no longer leaves behind a blank line.
- [Change] Parties on documents can now be initially populated with parties on a matter.
- [Change] Document assets can now be mapped to fields containing document hyperlinks.
- [New] Previews for SVG files.
- Workflow
- [Fix] Deleting forms.
- [Change] Entry points on processes can no longer trigger other entry points for the same process.
- [Change] Forms can now be associated with checklist items on matters.
- [New] Condition type for checklist items.
- [New] Automatic clean-up of rule logs.
- Other
- [Fix] Encrypted data could become unreadable due to mismatch between servers.
- [Fix] Validation prompts intended to abort the current operation still displayed subsequent prompts (Desktop App).
- [Fix] Windows could be shifted off-screen when applying user preferences (Desktop App).
- [Fix] Dropdowns in grid cells not updating (Desktop App).
- [Fix] International Direct Dialling (IDD) prefix now removed from caller ID (Desktop App).
- [Fix] Access codes and IDD prefix now added to outgoing calls (Desktop App).
- [Fix] Telephone number formatting for US, CA, UK, NZ and ZA.
- [Fix] Hyperlink fields now display as links on summary views (Desktop App).
- [Change] Ribbon groups now automatically collapse if the window is too narrow (Desktop App).
- [New] Option to disable spell-checking in Markdown editors (Desktop App).
- [New] Check size of cache and manually clear data (Desktop App).