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Monitoring Translation Workflow Progress

WorldServer tracks translatable word counts and percentage completion of translation work in projects and tasks. These metrics are available and regularly updated for every task going through the system.

On the task level, you can watch the progress of each task. On the project level, you can monitor the progress of the project as a whole, which is an aggregation of all the progress of active or completed member tasks. To view the aggregated progress of all the tasks in a project, you can go to the Assignments > Projects page and display columns for any or all of the following:
  • % Translated
  • % Reviewed
  • Total Words
  • Untranslated Words
  • Translated Words
  • Translated Word Details (In Progress, Pending Review, Reviewed)

Figure 1. Projects List view with Translation Progress columns enabled

When you click on a % Translated, % Reviewed, or a word count value for a project, or go to the Assignments > Projects > Task List for Project: <project name> page and click View translation progress..., the Translation Progress for Project <project name> page displays.

Figure 2. Page showing the Translation Progress of a project

This page focuses on progress information for the project, and offers, in addition to the information available on the Project List page, the choice of viewing statistics for segments as well as for words. You can keep the display simple, and display only the percentages of review status (Reviewed, Pending Review, or In Progress) for translated words or segments.

The color-coded progress bar shows the percentages of reviewed, pending review, in-progress, and untranslated words or segments. You can choose to also show word and segment counts, full asset paths, and the total amount of translated words or segments (which is a sum of reviewed, pending review, and in-progress).

To view the progress of individual tasks in a project, go to the Assignments > Projects > Task List for Project: <project name> page, and click the % Translated, % Reviewed or a word value for the task. The following pop-up displays:

Figure 3. Page showing the Translation Progress for a task

This Translation Progress for Task #N screen displays, with a color-coded progress bar showing the percentages of reviewed, pending review, in-progress, and untranslated words or segments for this task. You can show the word and segment counts by checking the Counts checkbox. Next to the Reviewed, Pending Review, and In Progress number is the segment review status icon for that segment.

When Are the Word and Segment Counts Updated?

Every time an asset is saved in WorldServer (either from the WorldServer Browser Workbench, a Save automatic action, from importing translation kits, or from SDK custom code), the word and segment count statistics are updated to show the current up-to-date translatable and reviewable word and segment counts for all tasks and projects. For offline translators, these statistics are updated when translations are uploaded to WorldServer. Translators can upload their work from desktop translation tools back to WorldServer as frequently as they like; whenever they do so, these statistics are updated. For translators who are doing their work online, the progress of their work is tracked in real time.