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The Aptify Outlook add-in feature provides the ability to create Persons and Contact Log records directly from Microsoft Outlook. You can create Persons and Contact Log for specific email and contact items manually, or automatically (depending on your configuration). This topic describes the different features available when using the Aptify Outlook Add-In.

The Aptify Outlook Add-In is in addition to the Microsoft Outlook integration that Aptify already includes for Contact Log creation from within Aptify. See Importing Emails from Microsoft Outlook for more details.

• Creating a Persons Record for Selected Contacts
• Automatically Create a Persons Record for Added or Updated Contacts   

• Creating a Contact Log for Selected Emails

• Automatically Create Contact Logs for Emails in a Specified Folder
• Automatically Create Contact Logs for All Outgoing Emails
• Disconnecting from the Aptify Database
• Opening a Contact in Aptify (for Outlook 2010 and earlier)

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Creating or Modifying a Persons Record for Selected Contacts

When you create a new or modify an existing contact in Outlook, you can create or modify a corresponding Persons record in Aptify. This feature is available via the Aptify drop-down menu under the Add-Ins tab on the Outlook Ribbon bar (or the Aptify menu from the Outlook right-click context menu for Outlook 2010 and 2007) when a Outlook contacts have been selected. To use this feature, select a Outlook email contacts and select the Create Aptify Person option. One of two things will occur:

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Automatically Create a Persons Record for Added or Updated Contacts

This feature can also be configured to automatically generate or update existing Persons records anytime a new contact is added or an existing contact is updated. This behavior is controlled with the ContactSync attribute found in the OutlookAddinConfig config file. If the ContactSync attribute is set to True, new or updated contacts that do not exist in Aptify are automatically created as Persons records or existing Persons records are updated if applicable. See Copying and Configuring the OutlookAddinConfiguration Config File for more information.

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Creating a Contact Log for Selected Emails

With the Aptify Outlook Add-In, you can create Contact Log records for mail items directly from Outlook. This feature is available via the Create Aptify Contact Log option from the Aptify drop-down on the Add-In tab on the Outlook Ribbon bar (and via the Outlook right-click context menu inOutlook 2007 and 2010 versions). Users can select any email to create a Contact log record for and the email will be creating as a Contact Log record in Aptify.

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• Compares each email address in the message against the email address of Persons in the system. If there is a match, the system adds a link to the Contact Logs record for that person and that person's Company (if one is specified).
• Compares the name of internal recipients (that is, recipients who have accounts on the organization's Microsoft Exchange server) against the First and Last Names of the Employees in the system. If there is a match, the system adds a link to the Contact Logs record for that employee and the employee's organization.
• Note that when performing the Persons match, Aptify only considers email addresses in the name@domain.com format. Outlook does not use this format internally for email messages sent to other employees whose addresses are on the same Microsoft Exchange server. Therefore, if an employee has both an Employees record and a Persons record, the system will link the employee's Employees record to Contact Log but it will not link the employee's Persons record to the Contact Log.

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Automatically Create Contact Logs for Emails in a Specified Folder

You can also configure the Aptify Outlook Add-In to automatically create Contact Log records for emails that arrive in a particular folder. This behavior is controlled with the ContactSync and FolderPath attributes found in the OutlookAddinConfig config file. See Copying and Configuring the OutlookAddinConfiguration Config File for more information. 

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Automatically Create Contact Logs for All Outgoing Emails

You can also configure the Aptify Outlook Add-In to automatically create Contact Logs records for all outgoing emails. This behavior is controlled with the CreateContactLogForSentItems attribute found in the OutlookAddinConfig config file. See Copying and Configuring the OutlookAddinConfiguration Config File for more information. If CreateContactLogForSentItems value is True, anytime an email is sent from the Outlook account on the computer in which the add-in is installed will generate an associated contact log.

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Disconnecting from the Aptify Database

When using the default configuration settings, users with valid user accounts in the Aptify database are automatically connected to Aptify when Microsoft Outlook is launched. However, there may be times when you don't want Contact Logs and Persons records created or modified in Aptify. In this case, you can disconnect from the Aptify database by navigating to the Add-Ins tab from the Outlook Ribbon bar and selecting the Disconnect option from the Aptify drop-down as show below. If you want to re-connect to the Aptify database during the same Outlook session, select the Connect option.

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Opening a Contact in Aptify (for Outlook 2010 and earlier)

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