This page gives an overview of the key elements in the Translation User Interface. Use the links to learn more about each UI element.
1. Status Bar / Document Navigation
This section allows users to change the status of a job and navigate through them.
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Jobs list | |
Current job status | |
Document navigation (when working with multiple documents or in a ressource) |
2. General Preferences and Editor Design
In this section, users can customize their workspace, editor behavior and shortcuts.
3. Main Menu
The Main Menu is a quick access point to the main features of the Translation Editor.
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Document | Access to the project library, import and export options for offline work and the delivery of files. |
Actions | Access to Batch Actions and bulk updates on language and segment level. |
QA Checks | Access to any QA-ralated activities, like running a full QA, a quick QA or deleting QA results. |
Preview | Allows access to preview the source and target documents, as well as to the Beebox Live Preview. |
View | Contains customization options for the editor workspace. |
4. Quick Task Bar
The Quick Task Bar contains frequently used actions.
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Saving / Autosave settings | |
The refresh action reloads the editor grid without saving. | |
If enabled, non-displayable characters are displayed in the editor grid. | |
Opens the Find & Replace panel. | |
Shows the change history of a segment as well as undo and redo options. |
5. Power Search
With the Power Search users can quickly filter the segments based on numerous searching categories.
6. Page Navigation
The Page Navigation enables users to go through the pages in the editor grid and specify how many segments are shown per page.
7. Widget Area
Widgets are modules that support translators in their work. They show translation memory hits, comments, the revision history of a segment and many more metainformation. Depending on their preferences, users can hide all of them or see up to two widgets at the same time.
8. Editor Grid
The editor grid is where source and target text segments are displayed to the translator. It is the central working space for all stakeholders in the linguistic process. The grid additionally gives access to the Statistics page and the Column Manager.
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Access to the document statistics. | |
Access to several options to customize your columns. |
9. Sidebar
In the sidebar users can easily navigate to other parts of Wordbee Translator.
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Link to the Wordbee Translator Home Page | |
Link to Job Dashboard | |
Link to the User’s MT Hive Requests | |
Link to MT Hive’s Quick Translate Feature | |
Link to External Resources Yellow: External Dictionaries |
10. Smart Tools
Status bar and Job/document navigation
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Jobs list | |
Job status | |
Document navigation (when working from 2. Documents or from a resource) |
General preferences and editor design settings
Colors, Themes and layout organisation.
Main menu
General features can be reached at the top bar
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Access to project files, import/export options and set document as deliverable | |
| Access to QA Checks, profiles and QA results |
Preview Tab | |
Access to predefined layouts for each job type and other display options |
Quick task bar
General features about the work done in the grid
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Power search bar
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This bar is linked to the behavior of other features available within the Editor workspace (8)
Page navigation bar
General page navigation and segment display per page
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The Widgets area
The Widgets are modules which can be shown/hidden. You can have up to two at a time!
Editor workspace
Segment editing and global work overview
Grid space | ||||
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8.1 The Editor GridWhere the document and it(s) translations are presented
In the top left and right corners of this space you have two icons, useful for management purposes:
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Actions at segment level | ||||||||
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8.2. The Editor segmentsMany of the actions you can trigger for your full document or filtered selection, can also be done individually per segment
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The Sidebar
Your link to your Wordbee Translator Platform, external resources and support.
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| Link to Wordbee Translator Platform (Home page) | |
Link to Wordbee Translator Platform (Job dashboard) | ||
Wordbee Translation Editor | ||
Links to help: Docu and Zendesk | ||
Links to external resources (dic, Global Search) | ||
External dictionaries | ||
The Smart Tools bar
Features that can be switched on and off while you work in the grid area
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Autopropagation of translations | |
Autocomplete from memories | |
Smart Assistant for live checks while you type | |
Spellchecker against selected diccionary |