New Features - 11-1 Build 2

Welcome to Collect! Version 11.1 Build 2. This latest version has many new features and functionality. There are also many optimizations and enhancements to existing features.

Record Event History

You can now cause Collect! to save a contact record for any type of contact when scheduling a contact plan. This is useful for storing changes, such as Status, exactly like a Phone or Letter contact. This gives you a Completed Date for reporting purposes. You can also turn this switch OFF if you do not want to create a contact when the event is executed. For instance, you could run a Letter event to print a letter and not create the Letter contact on the account. Please see Help topic Event for more information.

Misc Tab

On the Debtor form, the Misc form allows you to store additional information and switches for your accounts. This is an area where you can set flags as needed or store additional information on the account. There are several user-defined Number, Date, Time and Switch fields. You can use a control file to set the labels on this form as required. Please see Help topic Misc for details.

Find By Street Hot Key

You can now bring up the Find By Street screen with a new hot key, CTRL+F11.

Please refer to Help topic Find By Street for details.

Open Attachment Folder

You can now view the contents of the Attachment folder for an account without opening attachments. This allows you to quickly open any file attached to a Debtor through the Attachment File fields.

Please see Help topic Attachment for more information.

Display Notes Automatically

Switch this ON in the Operator Detail if you want the Notes tab to always be selected when moving onto a Debtor form. When this switch is OFF, the last highlighted tab is displayed when moving to another debtor.

Please refer to Help Topic Operator Detail for more information.

Disable Account Matching

Switch this ON in the Operator Detail to disable account matching for this particular operator. This will override the global account matching settings. This lets you use account matching on your system, yet allows certain operators to be able to navigate debtors without Collect! performing the account matching functions. Typically, system administrators and junior collectors would have this switch turned ON, while data entry operators would have this switch turned OFF. Turning this switch ON disables account matching only for this operator.

Please refer to Help Topic Operator Detail for more information.

Prompt Before Grouping Accounts

Switch this ON in the Operator Detail if you want Collect! to prompt before grouping accounts. When entering or modifying fields on the Debtor form, this prompt lets the user choose between grouping or not grouping the account to other matching accounts that Collect! finds in your system.

Please refer to Help Topic Operator Detail for more information.

Batch Letter Options - Max Letters

A new Max Letters field in the Batch Letters Options form enables you to limit the number of letters actually printed. If unspecified, ALL letters in the Date Range are processed, otherwise only the number specified will be processed. You can mark the contacts as Done to finish the printing process. Print any remaining outstanding letters in a new batch, if needed.

Please refer to Help Topic Batch Letter Options for more information.

Customize Splash Screen

Place your own splash.bmp in the CV11\bin folder to override the default Collect! splash screen. The horse logo overlay will not be rendered if you successfully load the splash.bmp file. The "Collect!" logo in the bottom right will always be rendered.

Please refer to Help Topic Customize Splash Screen for more information.

Trusted Hosts By IP Range

You can now select a range of IP Addresses to use with Trusted Hosts, limiting Web Host access to only the Addresses listed.

Please refer to Help Topic Trusted Hosts for more information.

Import Field Options

Two new check boxes in the Import Field Options enhance the parsing capabilities of Collect!'s Import module.

Strip Non-numerics removes non-numerics from the incoming data for the field.

Strip Spaces Removes spaces from the incoming data for this field.

Please refer to Help Topic Import Field Options for more information.

Optimizations

Enhancements were made to Financials, Report Writer, Display, Web Host, Contact Plans, Import/Export, Credit Bureau Reporting, Security, Database Change Logging, NCOA Updates, Scheduler and the CV11 Server.

Upgrading To This Build

Please refer to Introduction To Collect! Version 11 for details about upgrading your existing Collect! system to take advantage of the features and optimizations in this latest release.