Sometimes seeing your data through a visual format instead of a text format allows you and your case workers to better conceptualize the information. Douglas County Nebraska Juvenile Aessment Center (JAC), a current RiteTrack customer, has requested a visual interface be built for them when it comes to their relationship data.

The concept of relationships between people is a very old, but there are difficulties in showing those relationships in a software program that is both dynamic and easy to conceptualize.  Having the information in your system is only one step, making it easy to use by case workers is the next. Some solutions, including ours, utilize family trees. Family trees have been a good method for showing related individuals, but as they grow, they become difficult to see all the information at a glance. You end up scrolling back and forth to get the full picture.  

What our developers are doing is creating a completely customized, visual view of the current relationship data in Douglas County’s RiteTrack solution so that a case worker can see all the information at a glance. This is possible because our client is built in Silverlight, and Silverlight is designed for a rich end user experience. A case worker can use this screen to see all the relationships in an understandable and attractive format.

Unlike a family tree, the person you are working with is shown as the center so you can see who are directly related to them. As we continue to further develop the view, we will incorporate more visual information including kind of relationship and direction of relationship (offspring to sibling to parent). This kind of flexibility in the Silverlight platform is one of the main reasons our client is built in Silverlight. We can create completely customized, interactive screens for you as we are doing now for Douglas County NE JAC.

Please contact us if you have a problem you do not know how to solve and we’ll understand what you are going through and show you how we can provide a custom RiteTrack solution that works for you.