New business rule added for first name assignment.
When using an Individual merge purge task both the first name and last name must be assigned.
When you try to Verify the project you will received the following message in Log window.
If you do not want to use the first name field and wish to use the surname only you must use a Household merge purge task instead.
Merge purge settings not persisted during copy and paste.
Pre Post Office allows the tasks, tables or fields to be copied within the project. But copying a merge purge task did not retain all the settings when the new task was created.
This has now been addressed.
Incorrect identification of rural postal codes.
Rural postal codes not identified when a table contained a mix of Canadian postal codes and US zip codes. Merge purging applies different algorithms to rural address comparisons. These customized algorithms were being skipped because of the mis-identification.
Corrected in this version.
Select more complete of two names during merge purge comparisons.
Previously when two records have the same priority the record with the more complete address was selected as the surviving record. Now we go one step further and take the name elements into consideration as well.
Here are three records for an individual at the same address. All these records have the same priority, but the more complete contact name, the first record, is selected over the other two.
Add the correct number of default address lines for a merge purge.
When adding merge purge tasks to a project only one address line was added by default. If you table had more that one address line you had to go to the Task Item Selector and add additional addresses.
Now when a table is added the number of task item address lines are automatically added to the task.
The Full Name Parsing task was capable of parsing multiple contact names in a single field that contained "&", "and" or even separated by slashes.
Example
Original input data: John or Mary Simpson
Extracting two full contact names yields:
Contact 1: John Simpson
Contact 2: Mary Simpson
Extracting name elements yields:
First Name 1: John
Last Name 1: Simpson
First Name 2: Mary
Last Name 2: Simpson
Street Parser not recognizing a few street elements.
The Street Parsing task was not recognizing certain street elements during a run. The processing was aborted with an error message of "item not found".
The Pre Post Office application is obfuscated. Part of obfuscation is to encrypt string literals so that there are not easily read. The obfuscator changed certain parts of the code in the Street Parser rendering it unusable. Obfuscation now skips this section of code in the application.
This has been resolved.
Notification alert added during minimize to system tray.
Pre Post Office can be minimized to the system tray will processing your project. When your run is completed or interrupted a new alert window will popup in the bottom right hand corner of your screen.
Log Messages window does not show last entry.
The last message was not visible when numerous messages have been posted. The window would have to be scrolled in order to view the latest entry.
Now the last entry is highlighted and brought into view.
Behavior changed.
