Questions?

Has anyone used an API connector, or another solution, to enter payables more quickly? Our PMs spend a lot of time entering payables for projects with multiple languages and jobs, even for jobs where the rate is saved and autopopulates. Same thing goes for receivables. Would be curious about solutions others have found.

Hello everybody:

normally, when I create a custom column, I always find a method that suits my needs. But I am just trying to use a method where some parameters need to be passed to it. In this case, In the Vendor selection view, that shows the price profiles, I would like to get the Rates belonging yo it.
The thing is that the method that I found and could be useful for that is:

As you can see, this method accepts the Source and target language, etc.. I have the feeling that those are members that I can only get from the filters where the custom column is programmed. But that's the thing, I don't know how to get their values.

I normally program the custom columns in Groovy and in this case, the Class Name is: Price Profile.

Thanks in advance for reading and answering.

My best regards.

Hi everyone,

Our organisation currently consists of multiple companies under one holding, and we're in the process of merging some of these companies (currently existing as branches in XTRF). We have many clients who are each assigned to one of those branches. So we have a couple of branches that we wish to phase out, and a ''target branch'' into which those other branches are to be merged. Linking a client to a new branch is easy enough via multiple change, but this creates administrative issues, particularly when it comes to project history. For example, upon changing the client's branch, the projects that were completed in the past are now falsely attributed to this ''new'' branch.

Does the XTRF team have a recommended ''best practice'' for this type of merger?

Does anyone else have any experience with this? It would be great if you could share some insight into how you tackled this.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Lorenzo

Hi all,

Due to compliance requirements we are looking for a solution to block source file downloads (in XTRF)  for vendors working on projects created through the integration. Has anyone found a workaround for this? XTRF Support confirmed this can't be manipulated from the integration settings.

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone did try the SSO feature on XTRF 9.0 with Microsoft Azure, how was the experience and does the user has to input the password if his device is Azure AD joined when using Microsoft Edge Chromium? 

Moreover, can this feature be activated for only one user in order to test it before enforce it to all users?

Thank you,

Tarek

I have been searching for detailed info on how to use Vendor Selection Selection settings but it seems the articles here are old and use a previous version of the dialog. Can you point me a current version guide?

Hello:

I would really appreciate to know the way you add the payables as we don't seem to find a way to properly set them.

Our workflow is as follow:

Lets imagine we have a 1 step workflow, only translation.

- We need to select a vendor for the job.
- Add a payable in order to calculate the money we have to way to the vendor (now the job has been directly accepted).
- We go to the finance tab in order to see if the project suits the company's margin.
- Then change the job to open.
- Send a request to the vendor to see if the vendor would accept de job.

Issues we might find:

- We always have to rollback the job status to open.
- We need to select the vendor twice (when calculating the vendor's payable) and when sending the job request.
- When we add the vendor for the request, we need to make sure we selected the proper price profile. The PM has more probabilities to make a mistake in this step.
- If we have set a specific percentages in the CAT Payable, once the vendor accepts the job, those percentages are lost.
- If we set the payable to a total of zero (because for us is mandatory for the linguist to be able to see the CAT Analysis), that means that we have to calculate the payable once again after the vendor has accepted the offer.

So how do you do it in regards to this process? 
We have heard that XTRF users normally just pick up the linguist based on their price profile (in the vendor's search box when selecting the vendor); but we need to take in consideration that percentages are important, and we base most of our payables in CAT payables and not in weighted wordcounts.

Really appreciate your help.

My best regards.

I was wondering if any companies out there do invoicing by task.  We thought this could be a good idea for larger projects where we'd like to send an invoice for what has been completed so far, but we noticed that tasks only change their status to "closed" once the entire project is closed.  Are there any workarounds for this?  Would it be possible for tasks to be closed once they're "ready"?

Hello,

is anyone working with Wordbee?

Are their TM log analysis compatible with XTRF?

Laura

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know if it's possible for XTRF to block a quote not to be sent to the client unless it's approved by someone else? I am looking to find a way of forcing quotes above an X amount to be approved by someone else before they can be sent to the customer.  So XTRF should look at the amount and put a block until the quote is reviewed by someone else. I can't find anything in the configuration. The section "Send Quote for Review" inside the Documents Tab leaves the choice to the PM. I need to force it above a certain amount. Anyone ideas?