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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 sent email is automatically archived in all
relevant dossiers (linked with activity).
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 (Prime Time, Time
System, A4, A5, A6) can be generated with various options.
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. MS 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 8.0 with Microsoft Jet Database 3.0
or
Microsoft Access 16.0 with Microsoft Jet Database 12.0, VBA, API, CDO, MAPI,
TAPI, etc.) 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.