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E-Mails can be send fast and direct as plain text or HTML formatted via your personal Internet e-mail account (SMTP), fully independent from other mail clients (such as Microsoft Outlook). Each e-mail sent is automatically archived in all relevant dossiers of persons and projects (the activity of the e-mail is linked with the relevant persons and projects).

Efficient options and filters, which include the full-text search of entire documents, person and project data, ensure that all required information can be found easily at any time.

Complex listings for the agenda can be generated with various options (Prime Time, Time System, A4, A5, A6).

Export functions are available to create individual listings and analysis of your data (e.g. in Microsoft Excel).

Import functions are available to import e.g. existing address data from any database or table (e.g. Microsoft Excel).

Database functions include connecting, compacting, encoding and decoding the database, as well as creating archives copies of the database to store historical data separately and to create additional storage capacity in the productive database.

Administration and Security Functions to manage all user codes, passwords, access-rights and installations are readily integrated in the OPAL system. OPAL offers dynamic record-level access rights for the object types activity (document), person (address) and project.

The integrated Help-System includes the Welcome Wizard, the Welcome Information, the presentation OPAL Introduction, control tips, situation related and general help functions. In the menu 'Help' the OPAL Users Manual is available as PDF file and there is an additional menu function to open your own customised OPAL help file.

The design and the technologies applied for OPAL, ensure that your existing OPAL database is automatically adjusted to new versions of OPAL as soon as you install and run a new version of OPAL. Each new version of OPAL will perform all necessary changes to your existing OPAL database definition automatically and retain your existing data. OPAL is build with proven and tested technology (e.g. Microsoft Access, Microsoft Jet Database Engine, VBA, API, CDO, MAPI, TAPI) as well as a consequent modular respectively object oriented software design. New technologies are adopted after being evaluated and tested to ensure continuation and improvement of the quality, functionality and user-friendliness realised in OPAL so far.