With Version 5 you will be able to track, report and manage any information related to your business or organization -- be it about people, projects, images, equipment or facilities.

Version 5 introduces fundamental innovations to database software and adds a huge number of new capabilities that will appeal to users of all skill levels.

For End Users

You will find Alpha Five Version 5 is designed to provide you with enormous power and flexibility in manipulating and reporting on data, without requiring that you acquire programming skills. The built in Field Rules, visual Report Writer, fully integrated e-mail, backup, integration with MS Office, security and data manipulation tools make Version 5 a true breakthrough in delivering power in "kid gloves." One of the customers of Version 5 summed it up by stating, "Version 5 is a superb product--you don't have to know how to use it--just let Alpha Five know what you want to accomplish, sit back and relax and watch Alpha Five Version 5 do the rest for you."

For Developers

Think about it in terms of a real example. Time taken to complete a custom application with a tool such as MS Access/Visual Basic--100 hours. Time taken to complete the same application with Alpha Five--20 hours.

The major advances in Xbasic along with the introduction of Xdialog (a high-level way of quickly building dialog boxes), the new multi-pane, color-coded Script Editor, the introduction of completely customizable menus and toolbars, an integrated debugger, the addition of function auto-complete logic and a smart Function Finder all work together to ensure that Version 5 will legitimately be the tool of choice for programmers and consultants who demand a database application building tool that will allow them to produce professional class applications in a fraction of the time taken with competing products.

Action Scripting, while designed to add next-generation ease-of-use to Alpha Five Version 5, also serves as an extremely attractive option for developers, in that it automatically writes completely editable, highly-structured and fully-commented Xbasic code with the ability to switch from the menu system of Action Scripting to the Xbasic Code Editor.

Additionally OLE automation and support for Active X controls provide for totally extensible applications.

In short, Alpha Five is the first database designed to appeal to both end users and developers without compromising ease-of-use or power.

Key Improvements for End Users:

• Action Scripting has been added, which automates over 200 different actions! The Script Genie represents an extremely significant addition to Alpha Five. It allows you to create highly customized, fully-automated applications in an entirely menu and prompt-driven fashion. No knowledge of Xbasic, Alpha Five's programming language, is required to use the Script Genie.
• Alpha Five now has powerful, fully-integrated e-mail capabilities. The e-mail capabilities can take advantage of either the users' existing e-mail client, or the built-in Alpha Five e-mail client. Users can now send and receive e-mail directly within Alpha Five, as well as e-mail reports and merge data from tables into e-mail messages.
• Improved ease-of-use and flexibility with many new Genies.
• A Quick Export to MS Excel has been added.
• Automated mail merge with MS Word is included.
• Version 5 includes a robust security framework including passwords for individual users and groups along with permissions and table encryption.
• An integrated backup and restore capability has been added which also allows you to take �snapshots� of your database at various points in time. You can now zip tables, sets and entire databases from within Alpha Five and even e-mail them.
• Reports can now be saved in Acrobat PDF, Rich Text, HTML or plain text formats.
• An Audit Trail feature is now included, which keeps track of changes made to a record and when the changes were made.
• Spell Check has been added throughout the program.
• Searching, Filtering and Querying have undergone major enhancements resulting in easier and more powerful ways to locate data.
• Forms can now have Smart Fields that, when you click on them, opens a pop-up a calculator, a calendar, your e-mail client or your web browser.
• The help system has undergone major improvements making Alpha Five easier to use.
• Network optimization has been enhanced.
• And much more.

Key improvements for developers:

• There have been dramatic improvements in the development environment including an Xdialog Genie, a vastly enhanced, multi-pane Script Editor with auto-complete logic, color coding, auto-complete expressions, bubble help and many other features.
• The capability to view the underlying XBasic code generated by Action Scripting with the ability to switch from Action Scripting to the Code Editor has been added.
• Version 5 incorporates Xdialog, a superset of Xbasic that allows you to create model and modeless dialog boxes.
• Hundreds of new methods, properties and functions have been added.
• Add-ins provide the ability to add new features to Alpha Five.
• There is now an Integrated Help Editor for creating application help.
• The Xbasic debugger is now built directly into Alpha Five and executes considerably faster.
• Profiling is now available to analyze how much time each line in a script is taking to execute.
• OLE Automation and Active X support has been added to give Alpha Five virtually unlimited levels of extensibility.
• Major improvements have been made to the Expression Builder, including auto-complete technology to help with syntax. Other improvements include: customized fonts, color-coding, expression libraries, better navigation, bubble help, displaying of sample values and more.
• Intelligent Function Finder to locate functions easily.
• And much more.

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