07-2011

New Features

• Dashboard Improvements
  • Common name-value pairs (specifically: part of speech, gender, classification, format/informal, notes, context, and example in a sentence) are now prominently displayed to translators in the translation workbenches if included in the glossary as pre-defined metadata
  • Support for uploading terminology (i.e. glossaries) as Excel files
  • Ability to configure public/private settings for glossary sharing
  • Improved XML parser (used for importing XML documents) to more closely follow the XML specification
  • Community option to disable the "Translate Now" button
  • Ability to use the locale code for the source entity when exporting TM vaults
  • Option to set a community preference for which workbench translators use
  • Language support for Chuukese, Pampangan and Pohnpeian
• Chat Improvements
  • Team experts now appear in blue in chat rooms
  • Community option to auto-add all users to a community chat room
  • Users can now customize their chat room display ID
  • Chat rooms now show a list of users in the room and the name and language pair of the document they are currently working on
  • Last 20 lines of chat are remembered when reopening a chat window on login
• Workbench Improvements (New & Classic)
  • The addition of the "Next" button advances translators to the next most important segment in a document in the following order:
    • Un-translated segments,
    • Unapproved segments (with the least amount of votes if in a community phase)
    • Unreviewed segments (if in a review phase)
  • This "next most important" segment logic is also used when launching the workbench or when submitting or voting for a translation
  • The "Lock Segments" project setting can be enabled to prevent community translators from modifying segment translations that have already been approved by the community
  • Translators can now customize their workbench hot keys, hot key settings are shared between both workbenches
  • If enabled by project manager, translators download PDF views of the source and target content from within the workbench
• Classic Workbench Improvements
  • TM options set by the user are now restored on subsequent use of the workbench

New APIs

• addPreference - create a new client preference. If the preference already exists, it will edit an existing preference if a value is sent
• editPreference - edit a client preference
• getCommunityPreference - get a community preference. See the appendix for a list of types, keys, and potential values
• getPreference - get a client preference
• listJobs - list jobs for the current user in the currently logged in community. Results are limited to 1000 jobs
• listLanguageSkills - list all language skills for the active user
• listTeamMembers - lists team members. Must be the team owner to see this list
• listTeams - lists the teams you are currently a part of
• listUserStats - list user statistics
• removePreference - delete a client preference
• uploadXLSToGlossary - upload a XLS file into a glossary

Bug Fixes

• Special characters, such as the right single quote, are correctly saved in the New Workbench
• Applying formatting tags to a document no longer causes an error message about someone else translating that segment
• Non-Latin characters are imported correctly when use the Paste Text method on new projects
• Java Properties files that have URL-escaped characters in keys are imported successfully
• Improved the performance of the New User Wizard in Google Chrome
• URL protocol is now auto-inserted when creating a new project if you forget to enter one
• Chat rooms correctly indicate when a user is logged into your community
• Saving profile information on the New User Wizard does not display duplicate fields
• The Translator report no longer throws errors about how the numbers are formatted