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  • Allow Backup of individual Server TMs

    Burckhardt Rueffer
    • Planned For Future Release
    • 4 Comments
    We sometimes find ourselves in a situation where we have made changes to a server TM and discover that the changes were not good. With file-based TMs, we always create a simple backup copy of the TM and if things go wrong we just delete the faulty one...

  • "Send user details" option when creating a new user

    David Valdivia Vera
    • Under Review
    • 0 Comments
    When creating new users maybe the longest step is about copypasting all the data fields into a proper email and making such message read nice in terms of formatting and so. I I'm wondering if a dedicated button could be added to the user creation wizard...

  • Forced password change

    Jacek Mikrut
    • Not Planned
    • 0 Comments
    Give admins an option to force users to change their GS user account password every X days. Jack

  • Make Field Templates exportable

    Burckhardt Rueffer
    • Not Considering
    • 4 Comments
    When managing a large number of TMs, including file-based ones, we find that it is difficult to maintain the same field names and values across language pairs or across customer-specific TMs. In order to be consistent and to create templates "from scratch...

  • Project notifications for "watchers"

    Andreas Ljungström
    • Not Planned
    • 2 Comments
    It would be really useful if you could set a project "watcher" user in the planning of a project. This user(s) is notified about a phase change or about the completion of a project. There is a strong use case for at least the last option, namely "notify...

  • Editor services should be stopped automatically when Online Editor is not used

    Takeyoshi Nakayama
    • Not Planned
    • 0 Comments
    "SDL Editor Service" and "SDL Editor Service Router" services should be stopped when Online Editor is not used. SDL Editor Service uses 2GB of memory and SDL Editor Service Router uses 500MB of memory. If you are hosting GroupShare on any of the cloud...

  • Be more open about defects

    Burckhardt Rueffer
    • Idea Delivered
    • 1 Comment
    Just putting this out there to vent. The last couple of days we spent importing TMX files into our server TMs. We encountered strange problems with Asian languages, tried for many hours to fix the issue and when we were pretty sure that it was not something...

  • Improve creation of projects from GroupShare Web client

    Michel Farhi-Chevillard
    • Idea Delivered
    • 0 Comments
    Today, to create a project from GroupShare, you have to load your project template to the GroupShare server and create your project. I've noticed two major issues with this: If your Studio project template has language pairs with more than one source...

  • Create low-cost Online Editor version for review only

    Burckhardt Rueffer
    • Idea Delivered
    • 1 Comment
    We often need to have our translations reviewed by client reviewers. Currently, we create Bilingual Review packages and reimport the reviewed files when we getthem back. With the release of Online Editor we plan to have some of the work done through...

  • Allow additional Project Manager roles to be assigned to a GS project

    Burckhardt Rueffer
    • Idea Delivered
    • 2 Comments
    Situation 1 Inhouse PM1 sets up a project and assigns all roles (Preparation, Translation, Review and Finalization) to respective users. Inhouse PM1 goes on vacation or for other reasons is not able to work on the project. Current solution:...