Susanne Steinegger

Susanne Steinegger said:

- When I create a trados project (post editing project) for a translator, there seems to be no option to "add" Qualitivity as a feature to the project in order to run in the background and recording time and changes. Does that mean that the translator must have installed this plugin, too and is it the translator who has to have the plugin running in the background while translating?

Yes, the translator needs to have this installed and is actually the only person who can provide you with the report.

Susanne Steinegger said:

- Is it the translator who has to create a Qualitivity report after he is done with the post editing or will I be able to create a report based on the post edited file to see how much time was spent and what changes have been made?

It's the translator.  All the data is based on what the translator is doing and this is stored locally on the translator machine.  So they have to willingly work the tool configured as you want it and then provide you with the log files and reports.

Susanne Steinegger said:

- Do I have to use the plugin TAUS DQF as an additional tool to Qualitivity?

No.  But you could use TAUS DQF to have information recorded by the translator as they work sent to the TAUS server where you can create the reports yourself.  However, this also means having the translator work with the TAUS DQF plugin installed since it sends data to TAUS as they work.

The only plugin we have that would allow you to do some sort of reporting without the need for the translator to install anything would be Post-Edit Compare.  This will get you some good comparative analysis but of course it won't include times because Studio doesn't record times in the project or SDLXLIFF and you'd need this from the translators machine.

Hi Paul, we have been testing Qualitivity and we have just one more question regarding the qualitivity report.

Are characters in the second red circle counted with or without spaces?

Many thanks for your reply.

Hi Paul, we have been testing Qualitivity and we have just one more question regarding the qualitivity report.

Are characters in the second red circle counted with or without spaces?

Many thanks for your reply.

Susanne Steinegger

Susanne Steinegger said:

Are characters in the second red circle counted with or without spaces?

Easy enough for you to test this with a small file.  That red circle is characters not including spaces.  The PEMp column in the details is characters including spaces.

Ok...but when I check PEMp column, I see the same amount of characters.

Can you share your test file and a screenshot of what you're looking at?

I have a problem uploading the image, although it worked just fine the other day. I sent you a message on skype with the file.

Susanne Steinegger

You can simply copy/paste images.  No need to upload them.

I looked at your screenshot and this isn't really helpful.  Why don't you create a small file that only contains a few (2 or 3 segments at the most) small sentences so that you can easily count everything and compare?

Hi Paul, copy/paste doesn't work either... 
Is there any chance we could look at this together via skype? It shouldn't take too long.

We are also testing this procedure with a smaller file now. We were just hoping to see a total of characters including spaces but the numbers are the same in the Translation Modifications and PEMp column.