Is it possible to add new fields, or change the types of existing fields (e.g. change “Office Phone” to “Home Fax”)?
No, because not all fields are created equal. Some are special-purpose fields – for instance, there are fields which are supposed to hold telephone numbers. For these fields Phonedeck activates the “Dial” feature. For other fields there may be other “special” features, such as “Send email” or “Launch URL”, etc. Other fields are supposed to simply hold plain text – e.g. the address fields. Now, if you change the label that describes the “City” fields and call it “Alternate Phone”, you can store a number in it, but Phonedeck will not recognize the field as one for which the Dial function should be enabled. I intended Phonedeck to be a usable, but still a fairly simple application. Big organizers such as MS Outlook or Time And Chaos allow you to create new fields and set their data types; I did not build this ability into Phonedeck mainly because the complexity it introduces would require more time that I can spend on a freeware app. For the same reason you cannot ADD new fields. It would