Idea Delivered

I think we have delivered this before in a CU. Basically the order no longer matters. It used to, but not anymore since SR2 for Studio 2015. Internally, we tracked this as LG-7045 and after the fix, our QA department said the following: "Sorting the files after Name, Words, Status, Progress, Size and Usage does not affect the Report results. All reports have the same content." Would this satisfy this requirement (i.e. you can order as you like and will always get consistent results), or am I missing something?

Choose file order for Analyze Files batch task

A client may need the translations in a project with multiple documents and cross-file repetitions to be delivered in a specified order. The ability to specify this file order for the Analyze Files batch task would provide us with accurate analysis results based on the order the translator will have to translate the files in. The end result is of course the same if all the documents will be translated by one and the same translator, but this would help us in setting separate deadlines and creating separate purchase orders.

Lieven Lannoo

  • I also would like to see this--I was able to use the work-around of adding "1_, 2_, 3_, etc." to the front of the file names to have them analyzed in the correct order, but it would have been nicer to leave the file names intact on the front-end and be able to move the files up or down the list to the order of the client's choosing. It might also help with the amount of time spent quoting if the client were looking for the most cost-effective order of production.

  • Adding to this, I think a sequential/cascading analysis of the files in a project would definitely be helpful. We recently had a situation where a client analyzed a set of files together and then assigned the files to different linguists, with the resulting problem that a linguist got a PO that indicated that 50% of her file were reps, except that wasn't really the case, as they weren't internal reps but rather cross-file reps with files she didn't work on and had no access to.

  • I meant "Doc B first, followed by Doc A and Doc C." of course...

  • Hi Daniel,

    If I'm not mistaken, the files are now always in alphabetical order in the analysis report. So it does indeed not matter whether the files are sorted by name, status, etc. in the Files view.

    However, we may sometimes need results that are not consistent. For example, a client may send Doc A, Doc B and Doc C and ask to have Doc B delivered first. It would then be useful to be able to manually specify the file order for the analysis task, i.e. Doc C first, followed by Doc A and Doc B. This would provide us with more accurate analysis results (in the case of cross-file repetitions) when planning and managing the separate tasks.

    Regards, Lieven