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Our primary focus with the release of Perspective Version 3.2 was on improving its ability to be used around the world. Whether dealing with a single site in Quebec, Canada where the primary language is French or a company headquartered in the United States with operations in Mexico and China where the users’ primary language is split between English, Spanish and Chinese, we wanted to ensure that Perspective could be set up to accommodate each and every user, including those that don’t know any English. This meant everything; not just data entry fields, but also system messages, help files and the titles at the top of each data entry form.
As a result, with Perspective V.3.2, you can now configure up to 21 languages (up from 5 in V.3.1) to be used in a single Perspective database, meaning that all field labels, form labels, button labels and user messages can be set up for each of those languages. Spell check dictionaries can be added and help links can be redirected to custom help guides for each language, giving each user a consistent experience. The development team took the approach, “If we can see a word in English, it must be configurable.”
While the focus for this release was on supporting multiple languages throughout Perspective, we also managed to squeeze in a few client-requested items as well.
For example… many clients use the File Number as a primary ID for incident records and the Employee Number as the easiest way to search for a specific person. Therefore, we’ve made those numbers as easy to search for as the Incident Number or the person’s name, including when using autocomplete to link a person. This should help speed up data entry and the ability to quickly locate records you need.
We also decided to make the Quick Find tool, a very popular feature in Perspective Premium for the last few releases, available in Perspective Standard. Quick Find is great way to find specific references in the large amounts of textual information entered into summaries, notes, narratives and even attachments.
With Version 3.2’s focus on complete multilingual functionality, this required a complete review of the entire application, allowing our developers to dig deep into parts of Perspective they often don’t get a chance to review. As a result, our team was able to hunt down and resolve more bugs in this release than we have ever done before. This ranges from challenges with using Windows Authentication across multiple domains to making performance improvements on large drop-down lists.
With Perspective V.3.2, there’s something for every client, from a single site standard install to a truly global enterprise-scale deployment. If you have Perspective SaaS or Managed Hosting, you’re already using Version 3.2. If you have an on-premise deployment, the download is ready and waiting.
For more information on the latest release of Perspective, request a copy of our ‘What’s New in Perspective Version 3.2’ flyer.
—Ryan Thiessen, Director, Product Management
