New Nonprofit Starter pack released today - Contact merge, mass delete Contacts via API

[Steve Andersen]

I have released new versions of the Contacts & Organizations package as well as the Recurring Donations Package.

Contacts & Organizations v 1.64

• release notes (http://wiki.developerforce.com/index.php/Nonprofit_Starter_Pack_Contacts_And_Organizations_Release_Notes)
• install link (http://foundation.force.com/packages/contactsandorganizations)
  

Recurring Donations v 1.18

• release notes (http://wiki.developerforce.com/index.php/Nonprofit_Starter_Pack_Recurring_Donations_Release_Notes)
• install link (http://foundation.force.com/packages/recurringdonations)
  

There are a couple major improvements in this release that many folks have been anticipating

Contacts & Organizations now has an interface for merging Contacts in the one-to-one model. There is a custom tab called Contact Merge that allows you to search for duplicate contacts and then merge up to 3 at a time. This is currently winner take all behavior—the non-winning Contacts will be deleted.

Contacts & Organizations now fully supports deleting Contacts in the one-to-one model via the API. This will clean up the process of mass deleting Contacts. One-to-one Accounts will be deleted automatically unless they have Opportunities associated with them.

Recurring Donations has some fixes to make it compatible with this new Contacts & Organizations package.

If you choose to upgrade these packages, remember your upgrading best practices ( http://wiki.developerforce.com/index.php/Nonprofit_Starter_Pack_Upgrade_Best_Practices).

Please post to the User Discussion list if you have issues: http://groups.google.com/group/nonprofit-starter-pack-users

Thanks,

Steve