Creating and managing projects
As a project manager, you can control projects throughout their entire life cycle—from the moment you create them to the moment you complete or cancel them.
- Searching for projects
You can find projects more quickly by applying one or more search criteria. You can then save your configured criteria as search filters and reuse them whenever you need. - Configuring table columns
You can decide which information you want to be displayed in the tables on the Projects and Tasks pages. You can also rearrange columns (on both pages) or pin them (only on the Projects page). - Creating projects
To create projects, you need to be a member of at least one client and that client needs to have at least one associated project type. You can create projects both on the WorldServer 11 interface and on the Classic interface. On the WorldServer 11 interface, you can also create new projects based on existing ones. - Viewing information about projects
When you view information about a project or about a project group, you can track the progress of the translation and find out details such as the client who requested the translation or the scoping mode that was used to estimate the cost of the translation. - Viewing information about project groups and locales on the WorldServer 11 interface
This information relates to the tasks in a project or in a project group, as well as to the estimated translation cost of that project or project group, based on the applied scoping configuration and cost model. - Modifying project settings
By default, all the projects in a project group use the same settings—the settings configured for their corresponding project type. However, you might want a project to use a different translation memory or a different quality model than the ones configured in the project type. Starting with WorldServer 11.3, you can modify the translation memory (TM), the terminology database (TD), the quality model, and the Studio QA Checker profile used by any project directly from the Projects page. - Adding files to existing project groups
Add new translatable files to an existing project group; their corresponding tasks will be created automatically and you will be able to assign them in no time. - Removing files from existing project groups
When you remove a file from an existing project group, its corresponding tasks are also removed. You can remove files from the entire project group (= they should no longer be translated at all) or from specific projects within the project group (= they should no longer be translated into the target locales corresponding to those projects). If you remove all the files from a particular project or project group, the entire project or project group is deleted. - Adding target locales to existing project groups
Keep your project groups up-to-date with the latest customer requirements by adding target locales and selecting which files should be translated into those locales. - Removing target locales from existing project groups
When you remove a target locale from a project group, the project and all the tasks corresponding to that locale are also removed automatically. If a project group contains a single project and you decide to remove its target locale, the entire project group is deleted. - Modifying the name and description of existing project groups
Help linguists find project groups more easily by updating their name and description. - Changing project attributes
Each project in the system has various attributes. System attributes are the attributes that you configure by default when you create a project (such as the due date or the client), whereas custom attributes are the ones that your administrator configures by going to Management > Administration > Customization. You can change the attributes of any active project. - Downloading project assets
If you want to store translated assets offline after your team completes each project, you can download all the assets in a task or in a project as a .zip archive. This archive contains only the folders and the assets for which you have the appropriate permissions. - Scoping folders or assets
Use scoping to determine how many words there are in a particular folder or asset and how much the translation will cost, based on selected scoping configurations, target locales, TM, machine translation configuration (if uploaded and configured), and the cost model associated with the project's scoping configuration. - Canceling projects
If your company no longer needs to work on a project or if someone created a project by mistake, you can cancel that project, so that the Projects Cleaner can delete it from WorldServer at its next scheduled execution.