Abacus Consulting, LLC

Open Beta! When adding a Time Matters® or Billing Matters™ contact that is an organization, do you copy the organization name manually to the last name field to speed up searching in lists? Org Helper© automates this process, and also provides hotkey access to the Org button on the Time Matters contact form.

About the Org Helper  Author

Org Helper was written, and is maintained by Kevin Bross, Time Matters CIC (Certified Independant Consultant) of Abacus Consulting, LLC based in Butler, New Jersey.

Requirements

Time Matters 8.0 SR1C, SR2 or SR2A Enterprise or Professional
Time Matters 9.0 Enterprise or Professional
Windows XP SR2 or Windows Vista

Features

• Provides Hotkey access to toggle the "Full Name/Org" button on the Time Matters contact form using CTRL-ALT-O
• If the "Full Name/Org" button is set to "Org", the contents of the "Org" field will be automatically transferred to the "Last Name" field
• Supports multi-location organizations using the pipe "|" symbol
• Allows a prefix, such as "." to be added in the Last Name field 
• Can be disabled temporarily from the tray icon
• Can be configured to start with Windows

Usage Notes

Disable Delimiter 

For most Time Matters users, it is common to have a single organization with multiple locations. Org Helper allows permits this scenario by allowing the use of the pipe character "|" as a separator in the last name field. Org Helper will always try to maintain parity between the Org field and the Last Name field, unless the Pipe character is used to append a location in the Last Name field. For example, typing "Abacus Consulting" in the Org Name field, will cause "Abacus Consulting" to be copied to the Last Name field. Appending " | New York" to "Abacus Consulting" in the Last Name field will disable the copy process allowing multiple locations to exist, such as:

Abacus Consulting | New York
Abacus Consulting | New Jersey
Abacus Consulting | Connecticut

Prefix

Some users place a prefix, such as "." in the last name field to distinguish Orgs from regular contacts, and to control sort order.  The default prefix is blank, however should you wish to add a prefix, edit the defaults.ini file (typically located in c:\Program Files\Org Helper) and specify the prefix in the 'Prefix' key as follows:

Prefix=.

Note: Be sure not to add any extra spaces before or after the prefix. 

Time Matters 8 SR2/SR2A Compatibility

By default, Org Helper is compatible with Time Matters 8 SR1C.  If you are using SR2 or above, make sure you edit the 'SR' key in the defaults.ini file (typically located in c:\Program Files\Org Helper) as follows:

SR=2 

Known Limitations

None at this time.

Support

Support for this product is available in the Abacus Consulting, LLC Support Forums only. Please be patient with requests, as we are generally busy on active projects so we cannot assure an immediate response. Fee based telephone support is available. Please contact us by telephone or email for more information. REQUESTS FOR SUPPORT SENT VIA EMAIL WILL RECEIVE AN AUTOMATED REPLY DIRECTING THEM TO THE SUPPORT FORUMS.

Bug Reports

Please report any bugs in the Abacus Consulting, LLC Support Forums. Use the correct forum for your utility, and be sure to include meaningful information in both the subject of your post, as well as the body. The subject should read as follows: Bug: Short description of the bug. The body of your message should include your Operating System (ie: Windows XP Professional), as well as your version and edition of Time Matters (ie: Time Matters 8 SR1B Enterprise) as well as any other relevant information that may help us to reproduce the bug.

Changes and New Features - Org Helper 8

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8 v1.0.0 Beta 4 - September 22, 2007

• Changed beta expiration date to March 1, 2008 

8 v1.0.0 Beta 3 - August 16, 2007

• Added support for Time Matters 8 SR2
• Added an option to allow a prefix in the last name field

8 v1.0.0 Beta 2 - June 28, 2007

• Changed beta expiration date to November 1, 2007
  

8 v1.0.0 Beta 1 - May 15, 2007

Initial Release

Changes and New Features - Org Helper 9

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9 v1.0.0 Beta 3 - June 20, 2008

• Fixed a compatibility issues where Org Helper would not run on some systems

9 v1.0.0 Beta 2 - June 20, 2008

• Changed beta expiration date to December 1, 2008

9 v1.0.0 Beta 1 - May 15, 2007 

• Initial Release 

Planned Features

The following are the highest priority proposed changes as the current date (not necessarily in exact priority order). Feel free to suggest enhancements to any of them, new items for the list, and/or what priority you feel these items should have relative to each other. Please make all suggestions in the Abacus Consulting, LLC Forum.

• Allow the the use to specify the organization location delimiter (currently a pipe "|") to be any character.
• Allow the user to specify the "Org" button toggle hotkey.

How much does it cost?

This open beta is currently free of charge during the beta period as long as the terms of the EULA are met. Abacus Consulting reserves the right to charge for future versions of this software utility.

Where can I get it?

The Org Helper 8 utility (for Time Matters 8) is available for download here:

* PLEASE NOTE - ORG HELPER FOR TIME MATTERS 8 HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED *

The Org Helper utility (for Time Matters 9) is available for download here:

Org Helper 9v1.0.0 Beta 3

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Beta Expiration

The current beta will expire on 12/1/2008