Ahh yes, back to the Malaysian Dreamgirls. Progress on this has been quite disappointing actually, partly because there are so many bloody holidays in December and I’ve personally been quite intoxicated this month.

However the more technical setback was the fact that the Dreamgirls team kept changing their audition form fields. And on top of that, they wanted some really custom fields like Height, Weight, vital stats and etc. So what did we do? We gave them custom fields! Wooohoooo!

So basically we told them, if you decide to change the form again, just change the custom fields. The custom field feature was not too hard to do since we’ve already done it for the Listing module. They have pretty similar stuff, for instance you can create various contact templates that have a list of different custom fields.

In other words, you could have a contact template for your vendors, another one for your customers, another one for your employees, another one for the hot Facebook chicks you’ve been stalking when you can’t sleep at night (oh wait, that’s just me I think). Anyway you get the idea.

Just started to work on the long awaited Import Contact feature. And true to our “lets try to do this differently” mantra, we let you import from vcards, Outlook and even your Yahoo, Gmail and MySpace addressbook. Awesome Blossom feature again!

After this we’ll add Importing from CSV & Excel file.

So at the moment there are a few ways to get contacts into your Contact list:

- Click Add Contact and add them individually (pain in the arse if you had more than 50 contacts)
- Use the Import Contacts feature mentioned above.
- Click on the Reports tab and convert your mobile Leads to contacts with just one click.
- Create a publicly accessible online form for your contacts to key in their details themselves. A much asked for feature by our beta testers.
- Think of a contact in your head and it magically gets saved in your ezypzy contact list (we so wished we could do that for you ).

Managed to improve the Contact List search function a bit this week by adding in the Live Search feature, where the server gets search results as the user types in his/her search request.

So for instance, here’s the contact list:

And as I type in “sh” in to the name search box, the server immediately displays contacts with “sh” in their names right below.

Is that cool or what! But after the search result is displayed, the cursor seems to stop focusing on search box, and the user has to click in the box again and continue typing. BLEH! Will fix that later.