Vertical Trados Team workflow layout to be replaced

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Hi there, 
 I have seen that the vertical Trados Team workflow layout is about to be replaced by a different layout. 
 Is there any possibility to keep the vertical version? We work very well with it and would love to stick with it. 
 TIA!

Luis Lopes · Answer

Hi Elena, thank you for your feedback. We're keen to understand which parts are more user friendly in the old view, so we can optimize them with our UX team. 
 We've had significant feedback that the vertical workflow view was very cumbersome to use as it displayed less information, not making use of full screen estate of monitors that are more widescreen than vertical, which resulted in lack of clarity and endless scrolling. 
 Additionally, we have plans to evolve the product in the future including more functionality in this view, and the vertical layout would not allow us to easily extend the functionality of this view in the future. So it is also a move to set us up towards future capabilities. 
 As to why we don't maintain both: It essentially boils down to doubling the development. Every time we would add functionality or make changes, we would have to do it twice for something that solves the same use case. As such, we decided to retire it, after an adjustment period, so that we can rather use our development capacity to work on further improving the product further in other areas. 
 I know this is a big change to a main screen that we have been used to now for a few years, all I would ask is give it a chance and get familiar with it, and hopefully over time you will grow to appreciate it

Luis Lopes · Answer

Hi Ralf, this was released last Monday. The announcement for Team was only posted yesterday unfortunately, which is why it was a surprise: Trados Team - 24.11.1 Release We are working on improving this process, so we get announcements out at the same time for all product offerings. We are likely to leave the old view for around 3 months, to have sufficient time to adjust and give feedback on further improvements. It's very rare for us to redesign a view as extensively as this one, but it's something we had on our plans to do for a long while based on feedback, so hopefully it won't happen too often going forward. Thanks, Luis

Luis Lopes · Answer

Thanks all for the feedback, it's very helpful. We'll work on improving this view based on the feedback. Keep it coming if you have more feedback.

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Vertical Trados Team workflow layout to be replaced

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