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title: "12.0 Release Notes"
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# 12.0 Release Notes

Vcore (tm) Release 12.0 April 2017

## **Dictation & Topics**

- **New Surgery Topic:** Surgery has been added to our list of dictation topics.  (B-13091)
- **Fix for Word Markers Not Working for Some Dictations that Include Substitutions:** With this fix, the issue of word markers not working for some dictations that include substitutions (see **[New Features 11.2.01](/docs/120-release-notes#)**) has been corrected. The dictations that were causing the problem included substitutions and also ended in "new paragraph". Word markers should now work correctly in these cases. (D-10030)
- **Fix for** **"****c****avovarus****"** **Not Being Recognized:** With this fix, the word "cavovarus" should return correctly for dictations in the General Medicine topic. (D-10134)
- **Fix for "lung" Not Being Recognized:** With this fix, the word "lung" should return correctly for dictations in the General Medicine topic. (D-10125)
- **Fix for "Bayer Aspirin" Not Being Recognized:** With this fix, the term "Bayer Aspirin" should return correctly for dictations in the General Medicine topic. (D-10113)
- **Fix for "Signed" Returning as "Sign":** With this fix, the issue of the dictation of the word "Signed" (as in, "<tt>Signed Joe Smith</tt>") returning as "Sign" ("<tt>Sign Joe Smith</tt>") in the General Medicine topic has been corrected. (D-10050)
- **Fix for "q.6 h" returning as "q.6 8 H":** With this fix, the issue of the dictation of "q.6 h" returning as "q.6 8 H" in the General Medicine topic has been corrected. (D-10173)
- **Fix for "for" Returning as "4":** With this fix, the issue of the dictation of the word "for" (as in, "<samp><tt>Will draw blood for&nbsp;bilirubin level</tt></samp>") returning as "4" ("Will draw blood 4 bilirubin level") in the General Medicine topic has been corrected. (D-09877)
- **Fix for Sentence Not Starting with Capital Letter:** With this fix, the issue of a sentence not starting with a capital letter if the previous sentence ended with a quotation mark has been fixed. (D-10056)

## **SayIt**

- **New Behavioral Health Topic:** Behavioral Health has been added to our list of dictation topics. (B-13327)
- **Pin Your Popup Menu:** A new pin icon in the top left corner of the Popup menu allows you to pin your Popup shortcut menu to your screen. (B-13448)
- **Increased Password Security Using Salt:** New and updated passwords are now saved in our database more securely using a cryptographically-strong random value (a.k.a. "salt") to adhere to Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)  guidelines. Users will not notice any changes. (B-12277)
- **New SayIt Message for Fast Dictation Users:** Because Fast Dictation jobs are not queued, the system will now limit the number of Fast Dictation jobs per user so that one person does not consume all available resources. A new error message ("You have reached the allowed number of active dictations. Please wait and try again.") will display when a Fast Dictation user has submitted a series of dictations and is consuming the maximum number of active dictation jobs that the dictation servers can process at one time. (B-13335)
- **Client-Side Shortcut Recognition and Hands Free Dictation/Shortcuts (ALPHA TEST):** A new automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine will allow voice shortcuts to be processed directly on the user's computer, and it will also allow hands free dictation and voice shortcuts using keywords. These features will be (alpha) tested during this release with a limited set of users. (B-13436)
- **Fix for HTML Sub-Shortcuts Opening Off Screen:** With this fix, the issue of HTML sub-shortcuts (launched from another shortcut) opening off the monitor screen has been fixed. All HTML shortcuts - including sub-shortcuts - now open in the center of the screen. (D-10087)
- **Fix for HTML Automations Not Working When Environment Variable Contains Apostrophe:** With this fix, the issue of HTML Automation shortcuts no longer running if a SayIt environment variable contains an apostrophe has been fixed. SayIt environment variables include: SayIt user's first name, first name initial, last name, last name initial, username, employee ID, last dictation text, and last dictation audio filename and path. (D-10123)
- **Fix for HTML Automations Not Pasting into SayIt:** With this fix, the issue of HTML Automation output text not pasting into the SayIt window has been fixed. (D-10036)
- **Fix for Persistent HTML Automations Not Re-Opening on Paste:** HTML Automation shortcuts with the "Close Shortcut Window When Done" setting disabled (unchecked) are supposed to re-open after the Paste button is clicked. When SayIt was in focus however, the clicking the Paste button made the shortcut close and never re-open. In 12.0 this issue has been corrected. (D-10062)
- **Fix for Enter Key Closing HTML Shortcuts:** With this fix, the issue of an HTML shortcut window closing when the Enter key was clicked if the cursor was in a text field (which includes Text Box, Phone, Number, and Email fields) has been corrected. These shortcut windows will no longer close when this occurs. Existing HTML shortcuts must be opened in Shortcut Designer and re-saved to get the correction. (D-10055)
- **Fix for Persistent Shortcuts with Action Buttons Not Persisting:** With this fix, the issue of HTML shortcuts that were supposed to stay open (i.e. the "Close Shortcut Window When Done" option in Shortcut Designer is NOT selected) were instead closing after pressing an Action Button on the shortcut to run another shortcut. This issue was occurring for groups that have a Trigger that runs upon placing text. It has now been fixed.  (D-10088)

## **SayIt Administrator**

- **Fast Dictation Enabled by Default for New Users:** New SayIt user accounts will now have the Fast Dictation setting enabled by default. Optionally, the setting can be disabled on the Accounts page to configure users to access. Existing accounts will keep their existing settings. (B-13434)
- **New External ID Pulled from SayIt:** SayIt can now pull an identifying field from an application on your computer (like an EMR or CRM) and label a dictation with that identifier using a trigger automation. This label can be used to search for or sort recordings for a particular patient or customer, for example. (B-13221)
- **Fix for Error Generating User Profile when Processing User Vocabulary:** The issue that was occurring in which the system encountered an error trying to generate a user profile while processing account level vocabulary and sentence modeling has been corrected. (D-10003)
- **Fix for Sentence Models "Find Unknown Words" Defect**: The "Find Unknown Words on Selected Documents" tool on the Sentence Models page was returning words that were already in the topic or vocabulary. This issue has been fixed in 12.0. (D-10001)
- **Fix for Wrong Accounts Listed when Copying Shortcuts:** An issue was occurring in which the wrong list of accounts was showing up when trying to copy shortcuts from a user in one group to a user in another group. This issue has been corrected. (D-10065)
- **Fix for Incorrect Account Access Appearing on Exported Data:** Accounts listed in exported data (on the spreadsheet created by clicking the Export All link on the Accounts page) were appearing with access to dictation and matching (a.k.a. shortcuts) even if the account only had access to matching. This issue has been corrected and exported data on the spreadsheet now correctly lists account access. (D-10090)
- **SYSTEM LEVEL: Sold To Information on Add/Edit Tenant Page:** There is a new section (Sold To Information) on the Add/Edit Tenant page at the System level in which to enter billing information that is linked to the Zuora subscription management platform. This information is required, whether creating a new tenant or editing an existing one. (B-13198)
- **SYSTEM LEVEL: Evaluation Checkbox on Add Tenant Page:** The Evaluation checkbox, which configures the default access type (evaluation or not) for all user accounts added to the tenant organization, is now visible on the Add Tenant page at the System level. It was previously only visible when *editing* a tenant at the System level. (completed with B-13198)

##### Removed from SayIt Administrator:

- **The Processing Style configuration has been removed** from the Dictation Settings tab on the Organizations Add/Edit Group page. This setting allowed administrators to select either "Batch" or "Real-Time" as the dictation processing style for the group.  The SayIt voice client will now always submit dictation processing in real-time. API clients and the SayIt Accuracy Toolkit can still submit recordings in batch or real-time. (B-13210)
- **The ability to search for a Topic has been removed** from the Find an Item page (at the System level in SayIt Administrator). This functionality is not needed since the system no longer includes custom topics for individual tenants. The Item Type drop-down menu on this page now only lists Shortcut, Substitution, and Vocabulary. (B-13277)
- **The Wait Time report has been retired** from the Reports page since it was not being used. (B-13058)
- **The Audio Meter Close Delay setting has been removed.** This setting, on the Organizations page Group Shortcut Settings tab, allowed administrators to configure the length of time that the audio meter displayed no match ("No shortcut matched what you said") or no input ("No sound came from your microphone") error messages. The default was 0.5 seconds and the setting to change this amount of time was not being used. Therefore the setting has been removed, and the 0.5 second delay will be maintained for all groups going forward. (B-13318)
- **Show Deleted Checkbox Removed from Change Location Window:** The "Show Deleted" checkbox has been removed from the Change Location window as it was not being used. System Administrators will no longer be able to view deleted tenants in SayIt Administrator. (B-13319)

## **Shortcut Designer**

- **Text Box Now Has Copy Button Option:** The Text Box component now has the option to have a copy button next to it instead of trailing text.  The copy button will put the value that the shortcut user enters into the text box into the user's clipboard so that it can be pasted into other applications. (B-13262)
- **Conditional Shortcut Components (Visible When):** You now have the ability to show or hide shortcut components based on responses selected by the user on drop down, radio button, or checkbox components. The SayIt user only sees the additional components that correspond to certain responses. Components that have conditional visibility rules assigned to them appear in blue in the shortcut design area. (B-13253 & B-13438)
- **Conditional Output Text (Paste When):** You now have the ability to only paste certain text from HTML shortcuts when specific responses are selected by the user on drop down, radio button, or checkbox components. A new Paste When tab is available on Output Separator and Placeholder components. (B-13260)
- **Non-Labeled Items in Output Layout Area Now Have Labels:** When you add a component over to the shortcut layout area, most components will automatically add three boxes to the output layout area: the component label, the component value (entered by the user), and the component trailing text. If there was no default text added to the label, value, or trailing text when configuring the component, these would appear as blank or empty boxes in the output layout area. In 12.0, all boxes in the output layout area are labeled with the text "(label)", "(value)", and/or "(trail)".  If there *is* label text, a default value, or trailing text configured for the component, you will see that text in the output layout box just as you did before. (B-13404)
- **Delete a Shortcut:** You can now delete a shortcut from the Shortcut Designer. (B-13258)
- **Number Component Now Includes Currency:** A new setting available in the Properties window for the Number component allows you to add a US dollar sign before a number field in an HTML shortcut. The dollar sign is also included in the output text. (B-13389)
- **Automatic Width Adjustment of HTML Components:** A new setting available on the Options tab for HTML Automation shortcuts allows you to configure text fields, text areas, and action buttons to automatically adjust in width when the shortcut is resized by the user in SayIt. (B-13257)
- ****Bulleted and Numbered Lists:**** The Text component for HTML Automation shortcuts now includes the option to include bulleted or numbered lists. (B-13254)
- **Paste Button Component Improvements:** The Paste Button component for HTML shortcuts now includes a "Copy" button and a "Clear" button in addition to a "Cancel" button. You can hide up to three of these buttons on the shortcut if you don't want to use them.  (B-13261 & B-13451)
- **Star Icons in Shortcuts List View:** Shortcut star icons now appear on the shortcuts list view when you log in to Shortcut Designer.  (B-13321)
- **More Environment Variables:** More environment variables have been added to the list for the Placeholder component. Now select from multiple date and time components in addition to the SayIt variables that were already available. (B-13255)
- ****Environment Variables Available in More Components:**** A Placeholder Field menu has been added to the Heading, Text, and Action Button components which allows you to add environment variables to text in those components. (B-13255)
- **Improved Unsaved Changes Dialog:** The message that appears in Shortcut Designer when you attempt to leave an HTML shortcut without saving your changes has been improved to reduce confusion. The message, which used to ask, "Are you sure?  You have unsaved changes. Are you sure you want to close this?" now asks, "Close with changes? Without saving your changes will be lost." (B-13374)
- **Fix for Changing Text Color:** Changing font color for text in the Text component was only working when the component was positioned near the top of the shortcut (with the webpage scroll bar all the way to the top). When scrolling down to edit lower Text components below this point, the color picker will not open or would open above the user's view within the webpage. This has been fixed in 12.0, but works best with the Chrome browser. (D-10095)

## **Microphones**

- **SpeechMike 3700 Touch Now Supported:** This microphone has been tested and approved for use with SayIt on Windows. Philips does not yet support use of this device with macOS Sierra (10.12), and we found that recognition accuracy is poor on that operating system. (B-13330)

## **Wireless Microphone App**

- **iOS Forward & Back Buttons Always Enabled:** The Forward (>>) and Back (<<) arrow buttons on the Wireless Microphone App for iOS are now enabled for use in Insert Template shortcut form fields and in web browser form fields even if Select and Say is not enabled by the user in SayIt OR for the group in SayIt Administrator.  (B-13220)
- **iOS Checkmark Button Enabled for All Insert Template Shortcuts:** The checkmark button on the iOS Wireless Microphone App, which pastes text from the Select and Say window into the system of record, is now enabled anytime an Insert Template shortcut is used even if Select and Say is not enabled by the user in SayIt OR for the group in SayIt Administrator. (B-13220)
- **Fix for Duplication of Shortcuts in Folders in iOS App:** Shortcuts that are inside folders were appearing twice in the shortcut list on the Wireless Microphone app for iOS devices. This issue has been corrected in 12.0. (D-10010)

##### Removed from Wireless Microphone App:

- **Voice Profile Setup Removed from iOS App:** The Voice Profile feature (which was only available in the iOS version the app) has been removed from the Options screen. This feature allowed users to record profile samples on their iOS device. This feature was only needed for accounts using the Standard dictation engine, which was retired in the 11.2 release. (B-13022)

## **SayIt API**

- **Audio Stats API Call Always Returns in XML Format:** API calls were intermittently returning audio stats in non-XML format. This has been fixed and API calls will now always return stats in XML. (D-10135)

## SayIt Accuracy Toolkit

- **The SayIt Accuracy Toolkit has been retired** and removed from the product. Likewise, the SayIt Accuracy Toolkit documentation has been removed from this site. (B-13452)