Wednesday, December 17, 2008

ACT! 11 Google Plugin

Here is a link to the ACT! 11 Google Plug in. It allows you to have a tab in ACT! that shows the google map location based on the information in the address fields for the contact you are on.

Click here to download

The file is actually called a Contact Context Web Browser. Much easier to call it the Google plug in as that is it's most useful incarnation. However, it can be used for taking any field of data from with in ACT! and parsing (merge) it into a URL and then having the results come back into a tab.

An example of this is where we have a client that has a web based system for managing their orders. We have been able to display the clients orders from this system on each contact in ACT!. I should do a video of this so you can see what I mean. If someone requests it in the comments I'll do that for you.

One last point, there are some other templates in the Contact Context Browser. The only other one I use other than Google Maps is the Linked In one. Very handy for those that are Linked In!!

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