05-24-2018

Project Management

• We have included the ability to 'cancel' documents and targets:
  • The 'cancel' action is ideal for permanently stopping the workflow on a document or target for which work has already commenced.
  • This is preferable to deleting the document or target, as cancelling a document or target still preserves a history of the already-completed work, thus allowing Vendors to invoice for partially completed work.
  • When cancelling a document or target, the TMS will automatically put all incomplete phases into either a 'Skipped' or 'Cancelled' status.
    • The 'Cancelled' status is used for phases which have already been started, whereas the 'Skipped' status is used for phases which have not yet been started.
      
      
      
      
    • Callbacks are automatically sent to alert integrations of the status changes.
• Project Managers can now 'skip' a phase with progress greater than 0% if the progress is exclusively the result of TM leverage (i.e. no actual human work has been performed on the phase).
• 'Prioritization by Client' has been added as a select-able 'late reason' when completing a task that is past due.
• The 'Delete Document' action is now a background job, providing a much better user experience when deleting documents in bulk.

Intelligent Workflows

• Clients using Intelligent Workflows will note that phases which have been configured to 'auto-skip' if past due, will now instead be 'auto-cancelled' if work had already commenced on that phase, thus allowing for automatic calculation of the partially completed work in the Cost and Invoice reports.
• Phases that have been 'auto-cancelled' via an Intelligent Workflow rule will display differently than those which are cancelled due to cancelling a document or target.

Vendor Management

• Cost and Invoice reports now auto-calculate costs for partially completed phases that were cancelled.
• The following columns were added to the Cost and Invoice reports:
  • Status - the status of the phase (e.g. Completed, Late, Cancelled, Skipped).
  • Percent Complete - the progress percentage of the phase (e.g. 85%).
  • Rate Chart - the name of the rate chart used to calculate costs for the phase.

Task Management

• Tasks that are in the 'Waiting' status are now viewable on the Task List:
  • This allows linguists to see the work they have coming up and properly plan for it.
  • Linguists are not able to work on these tasks until they move to the 'Ready' status, but they can claim the tasks using the 'Check Out' feature (if enabled by the workflow).
• Both 'Skipped' and 'Cancelled' tasks now appear on the Task List:
  • Linguists are not able to work on these tasks, but their inclusion on the Task List serves as a notification that the task has been revoked.
  • If a linguist happens to be working on the task when it is revoked, they will be notified via an in-app alert.
• Tasks on which there has been no human work now properly remain in the 'Ready' status until actual human work is performed:
  • Prior to this release, locked 100% matches would cause a phase to display as 'In Progress' ahead of actual human work being performed on the phase. This was due to the phase's progress being greater than 0%, as a result of the locked 100% matches.
  • Starting with this release, project managers and linguists can now properly distinguish between phases/tasks on which actual human work has commenced vs. phases/tasks whose only progress is a result of TM leverage.

Workbench

• The Workbench has been updated to automatically alert users whenever a task they're working on has been 'cancelled' and prevents any further work from occurring on the task.
• Resolved a bug that prevented saving a segment in which tags were added to the target text that did not exist in the source text.
• The 'Tasks' tab in the Workbench has been redesigned to include more information about the task, including:
  • Start Date
  • Due Date
  • Status
  • Progress %

API

• New APIs:
  • PATCH /phase/{id} - allows for adding, modifying or deleting the due date on a phase.
  • POST /document/{id}/cancel - allows for cancelling a document.
  • POST /document/{id}/translation/{locale}/cancel - allows for cancelling a target.
• Updated APIs:
  • GET /task - now returns tasks with a Waiting, Skipped or Cancelled status. Previously this API call only returned tasks that were in one of the "active" statuses (Ready, In Progress, At Risk, Past Due).
  • GET /task/{id} - now returns the Waiting, Skipped and Cancelled statuses.
  • GET /document/{id}/cost - fixed a bug that resulted in a 204 (No Content) error.
  • GET /document/{id}/cost/{locale} - fixed a bug that resulted in a 204 (No Content) error.
  • PATCH /document/{id} - now requires a 'due reason' when modifying a pre-existing document due date via API.
  • PATCH /document/{id}/translation/{locale} - now requires a 'due reason' when modifying a pre-existing target due date via API.