Release Notes
This list is not comprehensive and by no means covers every OPAS fix and new feature. It displays major enhancements to the program so clients can stay abreast of what is new and noteworthy. Please contact OPAS Technical Support if you have any questions.
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= OPAS Online
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| 9.22.086 | |
You can start our remote support and training tool from within OPAS. The System menu item has a new item: Support.  Within this sub-menu, the first item is Remote Access. Selecting this item will start the TeamViewer utility for remote support.More information about TeamViewer and its use can be found here. |
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OPAS ONLINE has several updates/improvement including download to your phone or personal calendar, document linking and more. Details are in this guide (PDF). | |
| 9.22.076 | |
 The CALENDAR area of OPAS has been redesigned and now looks and operates more like the calendar in Outlook. The OPAS Calendar now shows text in each box, allows drag-and-drop to move events, and you can use the Calendar for entering / building seasons as it offers all the functionality of the Artistic Planning area.
See Schedules and other calendar reports that you run from the Dates area can also be run from the New Calendar. Contact OPAS technical support to have Date-area reports adapted for the Calendar area. |
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Tool-tip in the Works area Performance History screen has been fixed | |
| 9.22.071 | |
When adding works to programs, there was an error when filtering by composer |
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 In the Service Attendance grid, you can opt to sort musicians by their default Address Group order. This option supercedes the standard Staff / Sub ordering and becomes the absolute sort order in the grid; musicians are ordered first by their primary order, and then alphabetically. |
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Background Data - there was an error in creating a new Season under certain circumstances and ordering seasons on the List screen by start or end date | |
| 9.22.070 | |
Double-clicking report names now runs the report (you do not need to click the "Run Report" button) |
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In the Service Attendance grid, there is more definition between orchestra sections. | |
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Data Exports now open to the last-used export format (Clipboard, text, Excel, etc.) and will export to your Windows Temporary directory if no file name is defined | |
| 9.22.069 | |
Venue Performance Histories in the Address Book are now properly shown |
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The Service Attendance area now features a sequential number in the first column. | |
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"Fixed Amount" percentages now display properly (they previously had an erroneous "$" ) | |
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Opening several program areas (Dates, Expenses, Services) from other locations no longer causes the "OK / Cancel" buttons to overlap the total fields. | |
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Double-clicking on the bottom border of a grid could cause the grid to disappear. | |
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 When selecting an Event Type in the Dates area, any default Start / End time associated with that Event type will NOT be applied if the activity already has a Start or End time. Previously, if an Event type did not have a start / end time associated with it, and you manually put a start/end time when building the activity, OPAS would overwrite your manual entry with the associated 'blank' times. |
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| 9.22.068 | |
In the Dates area, you can dictate the order in which Venues appear in the drop down.  For example, if you have 3 or 4 venues that you commonly use, but they do not convinently sort by name or city, you can assign each an Order Number/Letter. Then in the OPAS.INI file, modify the line "VenueComboOrder = " to read "ORDER_1/NAME1" - this way venues will appear first by their order number and then by name.
The relevant lines in the OPAS.INI file are in the [DATADISPLAY] section: VenueComboOrder = NAME1/NAME2/PLACE/CODE/ORDER_1/ORDER_2 Detailed instructions |
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When opening an activity record through the Artistic Planning area (that is, double-clicking an existing activity), the New, Copy and Delete functions found in the Dates area are now available. | |
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In the Service Attendance screen, clicking 'Set to Default' and assigning musicians by clicking a column heading will affect only the Main Instrument assignment for each musician. So if a musician plays instruments in two different sections, the assignment will give preference to his/her main instrument.
In the example shown here T. Miller is primarily the Timpanist but can also play in the percussion section. Assigning services via the "Set To Default" button will make the assignments to the Timpani, not Percussion section. |
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| 9.22.067 | |
Refresh the entire season in the Calendar by right-clicking on the season name: |
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In the Tours area, Group and Instrument management screens now prompt with 'save changes' messages, and improved screen refresh after changes have been made. | |
| 9.22.066 | |
You can set changes made to the Documents screen to be included or excluded when OPAS "Saves changes to activities in the Same Project and Season." This way you can link (or un-link) documents to multiple activities. in the same Project. This feature is controlled via a setting in the [SYSTEMSETTING] section of the OPAS.INI file:
SaveToRelatedDates_Include_Documents=YES |
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Data Exports now have Date andTime fields better formatted for XLS and XML exports | |
| 9.22.065 | |
An Orchestra column has been added to the Artistic Planning area |
| 9.22.064 | |
In the Service Attendance area, the pop-up (or tool tip) on each column heading will include the full program and maximum instrumentation required. |
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 The "Create Project From Template" function in the Dates and Artistic Planning areas now allows you to specify or isolate the Season for the Source (Template) Project. This means you can more easily copy any Project from any Season to any other Season. You can also choose to copy Checklist items and reminders. |
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| 9.22.061 | |
Export and Advanced Filter windows can be resized |
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The Copy Date functionality has been enhanced to include specific weekdays and specific time periods. | |
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The Load Data from Works function can now be run in the Dates area for an entire concert or set of concerts at once. | |
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New "Change Artist" function available in the Services area (contact Technical Support for details) | |
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The Find / Replace Text function has been expanded so it is now available in the Dates area of OPAS. | |
| In addtion, the function has been updated so that . . .
[1] It can ignore the text to be found so that it acts on ALL seclected records
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| 9.22.060 | |
Tool-tips on the Address Book | Performance History and Works | Performance History screens did not always show information; they now do. |
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In the Artistic Planning area, the order of activities within each day can be set to either Project then Start (group all activities of the same Project together) or Start Time then Project (order activities purely by Start Time): | |
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The Service Attendance grid now automatically reads in the Seat or Stand/Chair for each musician from that musician’s Address Book entry. This assignment is automatically made whenever the musician is set to ‘present’ for a composition: | |
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| 9.22.059 | |
Service Total Columns in the Service Attendance grid can show musician totals and overages based on customized individual rules that you provide |
| 9.22.057 | |
In the Artistic Planning area, double-clicking the Notes field now opens the larger Notes window instead of the activity. |
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The “Encore” indication for a work has added to the Program Grid in the Dates area. Click to set the work as an encore: | |
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| 9.22.056 | |
The sequence of Performance or Production Weeks (PW) can be customized based on any rules your organization requires. For example, Performance Weeks can stop incrementing during vacation or other time-off periods |
| 9.22.055 | |
Dragging and Dropping files to any Documents tab has been fixed/improved |
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Individuals in the Address Book who are Conductors can be assigned as soloists to any work on a program. They do not have to belong to the "Soloist" Address Group (as was previously the case), but they must play an instrument. | |
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A composition's Print Title has been added to the list view when adding works to a program: | |
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| 9.22.054 | |
After saving changes in the Dates area, when you return to the List screen, the cursor or active row should not jump up to the top row, but stay where you were. |
| 9.22.052 | |
Changes made in the Artistic Planning area should appear without having to refresh the screen |
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The width of the left border in each program area can be reset by clicking and dragging. |
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| 9.22.051 | |
The height of all grids can be re-sized or customized. OPAS remembers your settings and keeps grids at the height you prefer -- click here for details. |
| 9.22.050 | |
The AskOPAS search utility has been integrated with OPAS. For more information, click here. |
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Floating your mouse over a linked Master Address in the Address Book will display address and phone information: | |
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The background color for non-editable fields (fields that are auto-calculated by the software) can be customized under the System > Edit Preferences menu |
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Earlier Versions |
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In the Service Attendance area ... |
| -- The F10 key will refresh the screen as it does elsewhere in OPAS -- The DELETE key on your keyboard will delete any single cell (assignment) -- Pressing CTRL+s will save the screen as it does elsewhere in OPAS -- "Overlap" checks can be configured across different Date Levels |
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The List screen in the Address Book now shows the Contact Number, first Cell Phone number and first Email address for each entry | |
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When Importing / Exporting addresses between OPAS and Outlook, a new 'remember last setting' option will stop the prompts about how to handle duplicate records ( new / overwrite / update) | |
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In the Services area, "Save Changes to Related Services" recognizes a change of Artist | |
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Create Project From Template functionality enhanced in the Dates and Artistic Planning areas | |
Click on the date and float or hover your mouse there; the soloist or repertoire (whichever is appropriate) will 'pop up' 
