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Importing and exporting contacts to and from Contact Manager

Contact Manager allows users to import/export contacts. It is often needed to copy or move contact records between applications. You can transfer (import) address book of your mail client to be used in Contact Manager. On the other hand you may export your contacts stored in Contact Manager into a file to be used in […]

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Choosing a publication theme to publish an online book

There is a number of publication themes included in Quick Pages, which are used in publishing online books. Each publication theme defines “look and feel” of your published book; i.e. its color, font, and elements layout. You can publish every new book with a different theme, or choose one theme to represent your publishing trend […]

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Uploading and viewing image files in Document Depot

In Document Depot you can upload and store all kinds of image files: photos, pictures, scanned versions of documents, etc.
For a convenient image file list display, Document Depot creates thumbnail for every uploaded image, a smaller version of its picture. Thumbnails are often used to organize photos in an album or large image files collections […]

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Scheduling your outgoing mail to be sent out at a predefined date

In the past few months we were publishing posts in our blog addressing elements of Mail Master functionality (see posts: “Creating mailing lists and sending bulk emails”, “Personalizing bulk email campaign”). Email scheduling is another important feature of mail management, included in Mail Master. Email scheduling allows users to defer sending their mail by a […]

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Using filters to display your issue list

Filtering in Issue Tracker lets you display your issue list in different presentations, which meet specific conditions. This feature is useful for lists with many items that cover wide specter of issue types: issues created and assigned to different users at different times, ranging from one day to one year ago, in progress and complete […]

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Using Recycle Bin to handle deleted files

Document Depot application includes a recycle bin feature, which works similar to the way Recycle Bin does in Windows on your computer: a file deleted by a user is not removed from the system but is instead moved to the “Recycle Bin” folder. Files contained in Recycle Bin can be deleted permanently or restored again.
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Tracking file history using version control function

Version control is one of the Document Depot tools that facilitate sharing files and managing documents collaboratively. In the blog from February 2, 2007 we described Checking Files In/Out feature and how it allows multiple users of the system modifying the same file simultaneously, without interfering with each other’s editing work.
In addition to Checking File […]

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Selecting Look & Feel: your preferred theme and layout for WebAsyst interface

WebAsyst offers you a choice of three themes and two main menu layouts, referred to as look & feel, which you can use to modify the look of your WebAsyst windows. Each theme represents combination of colors and shades and is named correspondingly:

Office – conventional white and gray colors that give your WebAsyst interface a […]

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Customizing sender’s name and email address in outgoing messages

We have recently published a blog post in “Ideas for use” category describing how you can send emails directly from Document Depot. In addition to this, Document Depot includes another email customization tool, which lets you specify name and email address to be used as a sender in outgoing messages.
A user can select his/her name […]

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Creating mailing lists and sending bulk emails

Though most email users associate bulk emailing with spam, sending out mail to multiple users is a common practice in many business and personal communications:

sharing personal news with family and friends
distributing newsletters
e-mail marketing campaign
sharing company information with colleagues

WebAsyst provides several ways to create mailing lists in Contact Manager and use them to send out bulk […]

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