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Release Log for Pocket Informant for Windows Mobile: 8.0

• Inquiry(3742): Changed our default First Day to Sunday instead of Monday. This is always changeable in settings, but for default we decided to change to US Centric since 60%+ users are in the US.
• Feature(1291): Now supports Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone and Windows Mobile 6 Standard
• Feature(1318): Rebranded to Pocket Informant 8
• Feature(1444): Pocket Informant's default View Picker now is a a specially designed Sheet that provides fast access to a large number of views or twin views
• Feature(1445): New Options Dialog
• Feature(2611): Added Context menu item in main right Soft Key menu (WM5/6)
• Feature(1464): Moved Pocket Informant to use the registry for faster startup. Added Import/Export features to Settings.
• Feature(1469): Added auto-delete for CeLabelEdit and CDateEntry classes for easier usage in code, smaller code, and fewer memory leaks
• Feature(1526): On devices with a rocker/scroll wheels, the wheel is now supported properly for better navigation
• Feature(1668): Pocket Informant font sizes are now uniformly real point sizes and not a variety of point sizes and pixel heights
• Feature(1754): Automatic Search when typing now limited only to Search and Contacts Views to allow for hotkeys in other views
• Feature(4206): Added option for only DPAD press to open item on Today screen
• Feature(2215): Space bar works like return key to activate rows such as Category Picker
• Feature(2248): Improved internal resource string loading performance
• Feature(2698): Added Franklin Covey Goals
• Feature(2699): Added Franklin Covey Compass/Roles
• Feature(2778): Category Groups no longer have a total limit based on characters but now is limited by Registry space
• Feature(5196): Improved default Task Sort Order in Calendar View
• Feature(2818): Updated tGetFile to 5.0
• Feature(4928): Today Plugin can be disabled if "\disable_webis_plugin.txt" exists
• Feature(3563): AV, TV, NV, SV, CV now auto-select the first line
• Feature(4211): Views Picker now offers Custom View picker on the Right Soft Key
• Feature(3895): Month View now has a FilmStrip mode, on by default on Smartphone
• Feature(3850): Some defaults for First Week options now are set by Regional Prefs.
• Feature(3889): SMS sending now is far more flexible and available in the Contacts Summary/Preview
• Feature(4429): Up/Down Gestures implemented during Touch Mode allows for changing views quickly; Left/Right used for different features such as moving between months in Month View or Day View
• Feature(3388): Added ability to assign ringtones via context menu and assign them to multiple selections
• Feature(3764): Optimized database access in CContactsThread a bit more
• Feature(3459): Added Task Project/Daily Notes navigatiable from menus
• Feature(1218): Today plugin now supports font size and appointment day options
• Feature(4723): Notes and Subjects can now have Contact Links in the format of [] which in the Summary dialog can open when clicked on.
• Feature(1748): Month View now shows anchored detail on the right when in landscape mode
• Feature(2155): Added option for only showing native contacts for AKU3/WM6
• Feature(4860): Pocket Informant can now use FlexMail native accounts for sending meeting requests via
• Feature(2569): Left Soft Key can now show Custom Views
• Feature(2697): Added Franklin Covey Mission/Focus Statements
• Feature(2900): Smooth scrolling and finger touch scrolling now supported
• Feature(3467): Added Reply Command to Appointments with a meeting organizer which lets you reply via email
• Feature(6065): Added the ability for Journal to automatically come up when an incoming phone call occurs (to turn on, go into the Auto-Journal Settings)
• Feature(3561): Left/Right DPAD in Tasks View Daily Mode now moves between days
• Feature(3599): If Franklin Covey feature is turned off, then PI Task parsing of priorities is turned off as well.
• Feature(3672): Improved some performance of Month View
• Feature(3685): Added Edit Categories in PIM Category Picker
• Feature(6000): Redesigned the Call Log with new icons, new stats, and only last 10 items on the list
• Feature(5996): Pocket Informant now supports using "p" for pauses in dialing
• Feature(129): Reworked Time Picker on Pocket PC for finger friendly usage
• Feature(180): Journal Editor now uses new Editor class
• Feature(240): You can now add icons to multiple tasks and contacts at once
• Feature(247): When using the new View picker sheet, the tabs are no longer shown for better screen usage
• Feature(264): Use the PI Date Picker in Alarm Notes dialog
• Feature(281): Appointments can now be set by duration in the Appointment Editor
• Feature(296): When creating an appointment for a contact, that contact is now also added as an attendee
• Feature(314): Task Templates can now be applied to multiple selected items
• Feature(320): When creating Appts or Tasks from a Contact, the new appt or task now gets the categories from that contact instead of the current filter
• Feature(1417): Phone numbers now get parsed in the Calendar subject
• Feature(1447): Contacts, Tasks, and Appointment Editors are now redesigned for full one handed use and a consistent UI for both Smartphone and Pocket PC
• Feature(1449): Added "Roles" based User Interface settings
• Feature(2208): When you complete a task with the taskbar, it now selects the next task
• Feature(4168): You can now drag a child task in a project to the project status line to bring it as a direct child of the project
• Bug(1226): Fixed a bug where slightly corrupted MyText.bin files can cause PI to crash when used. Also fixed in Rev 5.
• Bug(1446): All Editors have now been moved to our new WebISEditor control.
• Bug(1530): Added option to turn off Third Party Context menu support - which could cause crashes in Contacts
• Bug(2136): Datenoptionen changed to Datumsoptionen in German Menus
• Bug(2168): Today plugin now properly shows special task parameters
• Bug(4210): Fixed an issue with category color editing and it not displaying properly at times
• Bug(6102): Fixed an issue with the soft launch of Pocket Informant 8 where editing a recurring appointment in All mode would not save tracking fields properly
• Bug(4389): Improved how we assign and remove category icons and pictures
• Bug(4522): Tap/hold on All Day events in the Day View that are not in Compact mode now work
• Bug(5177): Better 2/6/12 month calendar drawing code
• Bug(1510): Fixed an issue with Search View not searching the body of PWI Note files
• Bug(4703): Fixed potential crash with large category names over 256 characters in length
• Bug(1248): Fixed a MyText selection bug with blank named MyText
• Bug(1313): Fixed an issue where Branch Series broke
• Bug(1574): Fixed a bug where tasks in the Today plugin get offset by 4/8 pixels for each line
• Bug(2031): Fixed issue with \r for smart macro line breaks
• Bug(2195): Fixed a bug where you could not delete locations
• Bug(2487): Fixed Crash when adding multiple categories to a category group
• Bug(2508): Pocket Informant now supports Service Codes within a contact's phone number for dialing purposes.
• Bug(2512): Break Series now works properly
• Bug(3424): Attendees with no contact on the device, but with email addresses now have clickable links for email
• Bug(4481): If Action button is pressed and there is a selection in the Day View we now create a new appointment.
• Bug(4625): Improved Dialing logic for Phone Edition
• Bug(3966): Internally hiding non-Native Contacts now works better
• Bug(1230): Contacts Preview Window no longer shows Call log info
• Bug(1883): PI now checks to see if FlexMail is the default SMS app or not before it uses it for SMS
• Bug(275): When marking a regenerating task, we now move journals of that task to the marked task