OLC website Openlaw Document Handling Software
from Oxford Law and Computing

Navigation:  Reference > Control Panel >

Menus - The Control Panel Menus

Previous pageReturn to chapter overviewNext page

The Menu across the top of the Control Panel has the following four options

Click on the picture of a Menu to read more about it. There are more options on the Item Card Menus

Case Menu

The Case Menu contains options which relate to the whole Case rather than to a Selection from the Case.

 

Backup A means of making a copy of key files without leaving Openlaw

CompactA tool for reducing the size of databases and making indexes more efficient

Exclusive Use Allows a user to ensure that no-one else is logged in, required for the use of certain functions

Settings are aspects of the Case which, once set by a user or Administrator, become available either just to that user or to all users

Data Menu

The Data Menu has options which allow you to alter data in a way which potentially affects several Items at once.

Names The central repository of the lists of Individuals, Organisations and Stored Names.

Allocate Functions to add coding to blocks of Items in bulk instead of one Item at a time

Find and Replace Tools to find contents of fields and update them to something else.

Images The setup and control of Image Sets, their assignment to Selections, and other image related functions

Import and Export of text files into and out of Items

Text A tool to update the field used by the Allfields and Text Box Query

Query Menu

The Query Menu has several Query types which allow you to make Selections. The one you last picked becomes the default Query.

Help Menu

The Help Menu gives access to this Help file and to various Information Log Files created by different processes

 

See Also:

Item Card Menus