There may be times that you wish to manage linguist permissions or Workbench behavior on a project level. To enable this we have added a section of Linguist permissions on the project settings.
Certain settings will affect more than users with the "community member" (or linguist) role but are still included in this section because the use case for the setting is specifically meant to aid linguists in the localization process.
To adjust linguist permissions on a project level:
- Open Projects from the sidebar menu and choose the Project you want adjust linguist permissions for.
- Open the Settings tab for that project.
- Select Edit on the Linguist Options section.
- Make the desired changes. Choose Save.
Below is a brief description of the settings you can enable from the Linguist Options section:
Allow Document Upload by linguists
At times, your community may want to enable certain users to upload documents without having the other permissions the project manager role includes. For these cases you can allow community members who are assigned to a project and have a matching language pair set up in their user profile upload files. This setting is only available on the project if you enable it on the Community Settings as well.
Allow linguists to edit tracked time
Linguists can track the time they spend on a task using the Track Time tool in the Workbench. Occasionally linguists may make a mistake while tracking time (leaving the time tracker running when they aren't working on their task) and they may want to adjust the time they spent on the task. If you would like to allow them to adjust the time they have spent on a task within the Workbench or from the Time Spent column in the task list, you can set this setting to true. If you would like to make sure that linguists have to speak to a project manager before time is adjusted, then set this to false. In which case a project manager will have to make the change on behalf of a linguist.
If you allow linguists to change the time they spent on a task, they still cannot adjust the time spent after they have marked a task complete.
Require linguists to review upon opening the Workbench:
Reference materials and document notes are an essential part of the localization process. Linguists should carefully review these resources before beginning the translation process. It can be difficult for Project Managers to ensure linguists do review these materials before beginning translation, so we have created a setting that will show a modal when opening the Workbench that displays whichever resources that were selected in the project setting and are actually available on the task. (i.e. If the setting is enabled to show reference materials, but there aren't any reference materials, then the modal will not appear.)
Even though this setting is under Linguist Options, it will apply to any user who opens the Workbench and other requisites are met.
