Status: Main Release - 2.3 Releasedate: 19.12.2006 (12/19/2006) Update eligibility: Valid Update Subscription
Changes within the application
CTI Data Connector application- a missed call is signalled with a red icon - left mouse click on the icon opens missed calls list
- right mouse click - directly select call history with missed calls
- right mouse click - quick dialling - directly open screen for quick (speed) dialling
- right mouse click - help - invokes online or offline help
- left mouse click on phone icon - transfer call during an active call
- button transfer call in CTI Data Connector main application to transfer a call - including support of blind transfer
- the window to type in a phone note and activity is only available if this functionality is supported. Otherwise the CTI Data Connector logo is displayed
- new icon for Desktop Notification (formerly fade in window)
- if a call is redirected then the Desktop Notification is refreshed with the new number
- the Desktop Notification is now displayed without having the Focus
- new Splash Screen logo
- works with Windows Vista
Complete new Help System
- Welcome Screen - which makes a quick start easy and offers FAQs and How TOs
- Invoke help: right mouse click on the icon, help
- Option to select either online help or offline help
- FAQ and How To chapter
- Option to print the help as a complete tutorial
Configuration Wizard
- TAPI Configuration
- Profider Postfix - add a character at the postfix at the end of a phone number for outgoing calls
- Prefix for internal numbers
- Truncate incoming phone number at a character - allows to handle phone numbers in the format 0734273830@myprovider.com.
- Special treatment of 'fake numbers' which are send from the PBX in front of a number with outgoing calls
- Send logfile directly using the default E-mail system
- Development API
- Option to always write XML file to exchange caller data with an application (Always write xml file)
- Option to define character set for XML file to support data exchange in languages with non UTF-8 character like Greec (XML character set)
- Option to define, if a change of the phone number during a call, should be signaled or not in the calls.xml file (signal change in phone number)
- Wait to to transfer a call can be configured (Timout during initializing a call transfer)
- Hotkey - configurable time to wait for clipboard content in case other applications (e.g. Office clipboard) bloack the clipboard
- The transparency of the Desktop Notification window can be configured
- Option to terminate the connection for an Access database to allow a backup or compression
- The application which is used to dial with an Hyperlink can be configured
- How to configure dialing rules for US / Canada is described in the online help
Outlook
- Caller identification and phone book works with Outlook 2007
TAPI driver workarounds
- If a number is first not delivered but a few events later, then this is situation is handled like a new call. The workaround will help in some situations when the number is dialled on the phone set
- Cisco TAPI driver creates an additional event at the end of the call. This event is now ignored.
Caller identification
- Option to use the number which was called (Called ID) for caller identification
- Option to use the name stored in a PBX directory or local phone for caller identification if supported by the TAPI driver (Display CallerID identified by PBX)
- Correct a phone number which has the long distance call number after the country code - 0049070054885342 is corrected to 004970054885342
Administration
- The administrator can configure a PC, extract these configuration options and distribute the configuration for all PCs - Distribute Client Setup
Salesforce Edition
- Caller identification via MS-SQL server is supported to offer fast caller ID with more then 40.000-50.000 phone numbers
Product Activation
- Complete new easy to go interface for product activation. Instead of using a file an Activation Key can be used
- Version can be installed multiple times on the same machine
Bugfix
- Outlook: Subfolders are used for caller identification only when selected
Installation
- The network installation now allows to finish without specifying a dial to digit for external calls
CTI Data Connector - Integration Development Kit
- Option to always write cdccalls.xml file independent with status if Fade-In windows was clicked (Always write XML file) - <FadeInWasClicked>
- Option to define character set for XML file to support data exchange in languages with non UTF-8 character like Greec (XML character set)
- Option to define, if the phone number changes during a call, this should be signaled or not in the calls.xml file (signal change in phone number) - <IsNumberChangedEvent>
- Field <CallerIDInternational> in cdccalls.xml file to additional deliver the phone number in the international format
- The CTI tables cdccti and cdchelp can be renamed - use <CDCCTITable> and <CDCCTIHELPTable> in cdc.xml definition file
- The option SaveCallOnlyOnce and SaveJobOnlyOnce can now be configured on the user level in the configuration wizard. The definition is done now in <Setup> instead of <Main> within cdc.xml
- Terminal Server support if a phone set is directly connected to the PC and the application runs on the Terminal server. Requires special SDK.
ActiveX SDK
- New Function SetCustomField to pass a custom field for each call. This field is then passed in the cdccalls.xml and cdcjobs.xml
- New Function BlindTransfer to redirect a call without notifying the desired party


