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  1. Associating a Document with a Case or Matter in Orion

    Orion provides a full case management system that is fully integrated with the financial system. This allows for actions in Case Management to generate fee

  2. Printing Reports from Contacts View

    Highlight/select the Contacts you want to show on the report. Click on Reports, and select Summary or Detail.

  3. Customizing Queries and Defined Views

    Orion is a robust Contact Relational Manager. It provides many features to assist you in viewing and gathering

  4. Keeping Track of Judges

    Orion is a contact relational manager. This means you can relate parties to one another, as well as to specific Matters.

  5. Creating Work Groups in Calendar Manager

    Orion’s Calendar Manager includes many easy, helpful tools to improve efficiency at your firm. One of these tools is the ability

  6. Change Phone Number on Company Contact Record

    Orion has an edit program that works as follows:
    If the contact was originally input into the system using the

  7. Using the Filter Tab on Events Report to Create a Report for Appointments

    Click on the Advanced Events Icon, then on Reports. Choose Event Report.

  8. Private Appointments and Confidential Matters

    Orion allows for marking of various Info Types/Contact records as private. The Info Type Client is special. Once a contact record becomes

  9. Using Event Class – Auto Populate Appointments With Descriptions

    In Orion it is simple to set up a new Event Class. Go to File Maintenance. Choose Tools, Manage Codes and

  10. Personalizing Calendar Manager

    Orion’s Calendar Manager includes many easy, helpful tools to customize your experience. This way your calendar can work exactly

  11. Address Changes Between Companies and People Related to the Company

    Changes can be made quickly to Contacts with Orion’s software. If the employees have been related to the company by Primary

  12. Adding a Task or Appointment for a Matter in Orion Practice Management

    From the Matters view highlight the Matter. Click on the Events Tab in the lower panel.

  13. Adding Fields to Contacts Grid

    Simply go to the Contacts Grid, and right click and choose Select Fields. Drag and drop the fields

  14. How to Set Up a Case Relationship in Orion

    You will do this from the Orion Administration program. Note that you must have proper security rights to access Orion Administration

  15. Creating Holiday Card Mailing Lists

    It’s almost the end of October, and the holidays will be here before we know it. Are you prepared to gather the necessary

  16. My Quick Doc Clip is Missing

    Click on the Contacts icon in your task bar. Highlight/select a Contact. Right click,

  17. How to file an Email on Case or Matter in Orion

    Orion’s Practice Management System allows for filing of a number of different types of documents, PDFs, emails, or notes.

  18. Docketing Dates – Use of Orion’s Critical Date Feature

    The Orion Practice Management System provides a robust calendar/docketing system that may be tailored to the firm’s needs.

  19. Removing an attendee from a Task or Appointment

    Just bring up the appointment in question and click on the Invite Attendees button. The Users that were invited will be on the right

  20. Duplicate Contact Records

    Orion does not allow you to “merge” two Contact records. You will have to determine which one is the incorrect one and delete it

  21. Contacts Summary Report Printing Off Page

    The Summary Report in Contacts (as with all Grid Summary Reports throughout the system) is printing exactly what you have displayed on the screen.

  22. Advanced Event Viewer Report Printing Off Page

    The Grid Summary Report in Advanced Event Viewer (as with all Grid Summary Reports throughout the system) is printing exactly

  23. Printing Event Report from the Calendar Manager

    If your firm is licensed for and using the Practice Management part of Orion, you may print your Event Report by clicking on the

  24. Views in Advanced Event Manager

    There are 5 views in the advanced event viewer that are hard coded and cannot be edited. Names and the queries for

  25. Create a Recurring Appointment or Task

    The majority of the time, recurring appointments and tasks are not synced from Outlook to Orion so if you want them to show up in

  26. Automatically Populate Subject Line of Emails

    Setting the default subject line for email is set at the Matter level. The field is located on the Additional Tab and any emails sent

  27. How to Set Up A User for Exchange Sync in Orion

    You will need to go to the Orion user list, so either go to File Maintenance Manager or go to the Admin program. Once there

  28. How to tell if an Outlook Contact has come from Orion

    Go into Outlook and press on the Contacts button. You can open each Contact individually and see the category of each Contact.

  29. Accepting an invite in Outlook that you don’t want to go into Orion’s calendar

    Note: Most firms are set to not sync appointments marked as private. If you have questions on that please contact Orion support.

  30. How to relate Contacts to Companies and Matters

    Note: These are general guidelines. A lot of firms have customized info when dealing with relating Contacts so some of the verbiage

  31. Advanced Event Viewer – Changing Client Matter Relationship for Multiple Appointments or Tasks

    To change settings for multiple Tasks or Appointments, you will need to open the Advanced Events viewer from your left tool bar

  32. Disable Reminders in Outlook 2010

    In Outlook 2010 go to File then Options. Once there go to Advanced on the left. Uncheck the Show reminders box.

  33. Maintaining Drop Down Values in Fields on Custom Tabs

    This will tell you how to maintain the values in the fields like the example.

  34. Exchange Sync doesn’t seem to be working for a particular user

    Go to File Maintenance > Tools > Manage Users and double click on the particular User. Under the General Tab, make sure

  35. Using the Document Library – Where to Initiate From

    When trying to create forms it is important to realize where you are running to get the correct merged data. If you are getting address

  36. Not Able to see Appointment in Calendar Manager

    Check to see if the Appointment has been marked completed. Most likely the User who is unable to view it has the calendar set not

  37. Global Edit Feature on Contacts

    Orion provides a global Edit Wizard for firms using Orion’s Practice Management System that allows for edits of both standard and custom fields

  38. Can Orion Dial the Phone for Me?

    Yes, Orion has an add on feature that will allow you to dial the phone direct from your Orion Desktop Contacts screen. Simply highlight the Contact

  39. Exchange Sync Error – The Request Failed. The Remote Server Returned an Error: (401) Unauthorized

    The network login has been changed for the account that is set up. Open the sync config editor, exhange tab.

  40. Calendar not updating

    The Calendar Manager by default is not set to refresh automatically. You can either hit refresh at the top of the calendar or change

  41. Email Journal Add-In Won’t Install

    If you have Worldox document management the add-in will detect that and disable itself. Below is an example of it being successfully installed.

  42. Error – Call was Rejected by Callee when Using Document Library

    This was caused by too many instances of Word being open. Check to see if there are other user sessions open

  43. Calendar – Printing out One Day’s Events

    The Print Calendar function in Orion prints what you “see” on the screen. If you are having trouble seeing your entire day on the screen, try the following:  Try scrolling down a bit using the scroll bar next to the calendar to display all of the relevant Appointments on screen. You may simply need to …

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  44. Nothing Displaying on SmartInspect Debug Module When Trying to Look at Sync Activity

    Open up Orion Exchange Sync Config. Leave the SmartInspect program open. Click the edit button. Uncheck Enabled

  45. Question on Journals

    If you are set up as a Practice Management user and have the journal tab showing under matters or contacts, you may highlight a contact,

  46. Find Client By Phone Number

    If you go to File Maintenance Manager or Contacts Grid, right click, and choose Select Grid Fields, you can drag the Primary field

  47. Creating a New Contact That I Don’t Want in Sync List

    No, if you are creating a new Contact that is a person, it will be included in the persons sync list by default. If you are adding a company

  48. Turn Off Exchange Sync for One User

    Please contact us for details on this feature.

  49. Prospective Clients – Tracking

    Orion allows for setting up of additional info types such as Prospective Client. This is accessed under the Orion Administration program under

  50. Entering Contacts – Error Checking

    Orion will give you a pop window to alert you to the fact that you may be entering a duplicate Contact. You may choose to go ahead

  51. Is there any way we can show the Location of a Matter in the Matters View (PM)

    You have the ability to show the Location Code in the Matters View. To provide access to that field in the Matters View

  52. Adding Client Opened Date to the Contacts View

    You have the ability to show the Client Opened Date in the Contacts View. To provide access to that field in the Contacts View

  53. Adding Closed Date to Matters View

    You have the ability to show the Matter Closed Date in the Matters View. To provide access to that field in the Matters View

  54. Adding Originating Attorney to Contacts View

    You have the ability to show the Client Originating Attorney in the Contacts View. To provide access to that field in the Contacts View

  55. Adding Matter Type (Type of Law) to Matters View

    You have the ability to show the Matter Type (Type of Law) in the Matters View. To provide access to that field in the Matters View

  56. Error using MS Word. Make sure MS Word is installed and running correctly

    This is because Word is configured to open in Reading Mode. Reading mode does not allow for merging of data. To solve this,

  57. Disable Event Reminders

    Step 1. Launch Orion Desktop. Step 2. Select File.

  58. Missing “Include in Sync” button when adding contacts in Orion

    Please contact us for details on sync issues.

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