About projects, project groups, and tasks

A few definitions and images that might help you understand the difference between projects, project groups, and tasks.

To begin with, an asset is a unit of information that you are translating or working with, such as a text document:A screen shot of an asset in WorldServer.
A project group is a representation of an entire translation job, from one source locale to one or more target locales:A screen shot that shows a project group with multiple projects in WorldServer.

Project groups usually contain multiple projects—one for each target locale. A project represents the work associated with translating all the assets in the project group into one target locale. Each project consists of tasks running through a specific workflow.

A task corresponds to a single asset in a single project for a single target locale; a locale is a combination of a language and a country or region where it is used. For example, French as spoken in Canada, Spanish as spoken in Mexico, or Italian as spoken in Italy:A screen shot of a task in WorldServer.