Wordfast Anywhere Project Manager tool Manual

Introduction

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Terms of use

Overview

A WFA project is defined as a collection of files (DOCx, PDF, XLSx, PPTx, etc.) to be translated, in various language pairs. To do so, files are assigned to linguists who can play various roles, e.g. translator, proofreader, QA.

Prerequisites that make project creation simpler:

• Files must be added before project creation using any of WFA's upload procedures. Note it is possible to add or delete files after project creation, for each language pair.
• TMs and glossaries must be set up under TMs & Glossaries > Setup prior to project creation. You, as a PM, can share your TM with linguists (this is the recommended option: linguists get all matches, exact or fuzzy, and can access Concordance search), or by extracting a project-specific TM to share with them (more limited choices), or by pretranslating files for them, in which case, they get the one single best match for every segment, if applicable, and cannot perform Concordance searches.
• Linguists will be assigned roles (translation, proofreading, QA) during project creation. Linguists must have a WFA account and are known by their login (email address), preferably with a language pair compatible with their assignment.

You, the Project Manager (PM) remains in control of resources: files to be translated, TMs, terminology (glossaries).

Those resources are only shared for the duration of the project, and can be revoked by the PM at any time.

The PM assigns linguists to roles (translator, proofreader, QA) in order to process files until the files are ready for delivery to the client.

The PM has an overview of progress at every level, and can set deadlines.

The PM can issue offers for jobs or roles to WFA users (accounts) who have opted to receive job offers.

Terms of use

Personal data, Project management details, Files, TMs, Glossaries and, generally speaking, all data, are considered privileged information and remain confidential. Wordfast Anywhere will never share or disclose privileged information. We have been in translation technology for over 20 years, as translators ourselves, we take confidentiality seriously and will continue to do so. We do not monetize your data.

Note that the scores and comments that a PM records on a linguist's performance also remain strictly confidential, and are available only to the PM.

Wordfast Anywhere only facilitates the organization of translation projects.

Wordfast Anywhere does not engage in financial deals of any sort with users of the Project Management facility, or with Wordfast Anywhere's users in general.

Wordfast Anywhere has no responsibility in the conduct or outcome of translation projects and/or the interaction of PMs and linguists, or the contents of files.

Please consult our Code of Conduct to be observed when using Wordfast Anywhere's Project Manager.

Best practices

Best practices to use Project manager.

Login in to Wordfast Anywhere xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

To be logged as xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx you just have to use your account email and password and mark the checkbox Log in as Project Manager.

If you do not mark the checkbox, you will log in as any other user and no xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx features will be available.

User Interface

Once you are connected to WFA as xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, the workspace appears.

This should look similar to the following screenshot (depending on the browser, operating system or device used to access WFA):

Top Menu

Project Tab

Some of this buttons will be available when more than one file is selected from the list.

Some of this buttons will NOT be available when a document is opened.

This tab has the tools concerning a project.

This are the basic buttons:

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• File:Newpm.png: Use it to create a New project.
• File:Openpm.png: Open the selected project from the list.
• File:Closepm.png: Close an opened project.
• File:Removepm.png: Delete the selected project. Only available when no project is opened. Use Close on this tab to close an opened project.
• File:Managelingu.png: Use it to Manage the team of linguists.

Panels

Project List Panel

This panel shows the list of projects.

Use Workspace (root project) to open the Document Panel to see the list of documents as in the standard WFA log in.

Project content Panel

This panel shows the content of the project.

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