With ProFID becoming more and more widely used as part of its expansion to many EU countries, it's essential for users — especially when onboarding — to have a reference documentation that is up to date and on which they can rely. We are proud to announce a major change to ProFID's reference documentation.
A brief history
Before we dive into it, let's briefly recap how the documentation evolved since it first launched.
- Originally, back in 2017, it was a Word file in French, shared to users but not available on the website. At this time, there were only a few users in Switzerland initiated to the system so this was manageable.
- Around mid-2019, as the system gained momentum and started to onboard more users in a multi-lingual Switzerland and abroad, the documentation got translated to English.
- In december of 2020, the documentation was made available to users directly from the website by displaying an embedded PDF file. Anyone with an account could now have access to this precious knowledge database!
Today we are hitting a new milestone. The documentation has been migrated to fully take advantage of the web, unlocking useful functionalities and providing a better user experience. We also filled gaps that existed in the previous documentation.
New features of the revamped documentation
New guides
ProFID has evolved quite a bit since the original redaction of the documentation. As a consequence, some of the features of ProFID were not documented at all. In this new version, we filled the gaps:
Documents
Now, in ProFID documents can not only be added but also edited and deleted. Thus, these features, which are indispensable for good user experience have been properly explained and documented.
Images
Documentation about images has also been reworked and improved. Working with and deleting of scanned images have been explained and illustrated. A new feature of adding extra images (images that do not require scanning) and working with them has been documented too. Extra images will allow improve ProFID database by making it more detailed.
Series
To the already existing documentation about series creation, we also added illustrated explanation about series merging and deletion.
Administrator's rights
In order to avoid confusion, we decided that it is worth mentioning the difference between user's capabilities and documented them. Now there is a special section dedicated to administration of ProFID and its extended features such as setting up the system for the first time or user management.
Added depth
Our new documentation explains certain aspects more thoroughly and in details. Moreover, multiple aspects of the documentation have new step-by-step solutions that will, hopefully, lead the user to a better understanding of concepts and their applications.
Better structure
The documentation is now divided into different major sections which are also sub-divided on separate pages explaining each aspect of working with ProFID. It enables to navigate and search the docs more efficiently.
Search feature
The new site includes a search bar that allows to navigate to the appropriate documentation page based on search terms.
Try it out!
You can access the User guide and the Videos from the top menu bar. The Updates page is also available from there and it will be updated when new features other changes are deployed to ProFID.
Feedback
We hope that those changes are to your liking. If you wish to comment or provide feedback on the new documentation, feel free to contact us at support+profid@zakodium.com.
As part of this change, we are also removing the French translation of the documentation. From now on, the documentation is now only available in English. With a constantly evolving tool, maintaining a documentation in multiple languages is challenging and requires a lot of effort, so it was decided to prioritize the development of new features over the internationalization of the documentation.