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vendor competency vs price profile
Hi,
We have some vendors with multiple price profiles. This works great.
The problem is that the competencies are for all price profiles. So when one of the price profiles doesn't have a price for for a job type that is in the list of competenies the system doesn't find a rate. But it does show up in vendor selection rules.
Is the only solution to copy the missing rates to all the price profiles? That makes changing a price a very difficult task. Especially when the vendor requests a price change via the vendor portal.
Multiple PM's on a project
Hello,
I was wondering how everyone is handling this in classic projects.
I talked to our implementation specialist and he suggested to add a second PM as "Project Coordinator", but what if we have 3 or more PM's that need to follow up on the project?
What would be your best solution?
It would be nice to have the option to add as many PM's as you want to a project.
Solution to assign work to multiple users within an external SLV
Posting this under "Classic" but also affects "Smart".
We have the following common scenario: we work with SLVs where we assign multiple jobs, let's say "Translation" and "Editing", to two different translators on the SLV side. They need to work at the same time and we want to know who worked on each segment/translation, so we need to have two distinct users for them in memoQ. However, from XTRF, each vendor can have only one set of credentials that can be passed onto memoQ.
One solution we can think of would be to let each of the contact persons on the Vendor profile have their own set of credentials. After all, each contact person has a full profile and access to portal, so the concept of multiple persons within the vendor already exists. It would only make sense that they could also be assigned to tasks and jobs individually.
Thanks,
Jose
Vendor selection rules, in Smart Projects, does not contain enough filters
I am trying to set up a vendor selection rule in a smart project and am running into an issue. This particular account is multilingual and we use only MLVs for each language. Some of these MLV's languages overlap with the other MLVs. So the use of a particular category does not necessarily help to distinguish the languages. For instance, let's say ABC Corp offers ES-ES and PT-BR, while XYZ also offers those languages, but I want to use ABC for ES-ES, and XYZ for PT-BR, and since this is a smart project, I want this to be automated.
In a classic project I run into the same problem, but I circumvent the problem by adding a filter for Target as Native Language under Vendor. This filter is not available in a smart project. Can anyone offer advice on how this can be done in a smart project.
Thanks,
Jaime
A request for development has been placed on our Ideas forum: http://xtrf.userecho.com/topics/593-add-more-filters-in-smart-project-vendor-selection-rules/ - comment & upvote if you miss any specific filters.
Can we delete a smart quote that has not been sent to the customer? How can we do it?
Set automatic receivables (with established values) for a process template?
Hi,
Under classic projects workflow definitions, we are able to set specific receivables. This really comes in handy to set up, for example, minimum fees or just to ensure that the receivables cover all the steps in a workflow.
I see there are automatic receivables option with Smart Projects but it appears to be totally tied to CAT analysis/jobs involving word counts. I'm looking to have automatic receivables using the HOUR calculation unit.
Here is an example of how we want to use this:
-Open project, select "Interpreting" smart project process & select client
-Opened project has pre-filled receivable "Interpreting @ 2 hours x $X/hr" (rate pulled from client price list)
This saves a lot of time when opening frequent, single-process type projects with established pricing. Is there some configuration I'm missing? Or, can we expect to have this sort of functionality in Smart Projects in the future?
Hi All
I'm afraid that at the moment the only option available in the system are the receivables based on the cat analysis.
There is an idea for this kind of development :
And we have it in our plans as something to be added in the system, not in the nearest future thou.
Best regards,
Marek
*.ppt file extension and memoQ integration
Hi,
As memoQ users, we currently lack the possibility to upload PPT files in our projects with file extension*.ppt (*.pptx files work fine). The PPT file filter does exist in memoQ, so when importing them directly into memoQ, it works. But it doesn’t work through the integration. Quite annoying for projects where the client uploads his material through customer portal and where an automated process is expected to complete the project. I discussed this with Kilgray first, and it appears to be available in the memoQ API though.
thanks for sharing your thoughts
I got good news from Kilgray. In short, importing ppt files via memoQ API (used by XTRF integration) will be available in the next release of memoQ Server (version 8.3 I suppose). After upgrading memoQ Server it should work out of the box (no XTRF upgrade necessary).
Here you can read the full explanation from Kilgray:
As you have seen in the API documentation the support for doc, ppt and xls files was restricted, but this has changed in the meantime (doc and xls files would work already on your server). The ppt was an exception because we could not handle them without an installed copy of MS office.
The final technical difficulties were also overcome recently, and server side ppt import was enabled just during the last week.
Then next release will contain the modifications. A server upgrade will be required for them, of course.
We will update the API documentation as well, to reflect these changes.
I need to go back and update a lot of receivables from a lot of jobs. What's the fastest way of doing that?
A lot of receivables had the wrong quantity, so now I have to go back and change all the receivables. All the total agreed stay the same, so the invoices stay identical. What's the fastest way of doing these changes?
How to avoid creating XTRF Temporary TMs during memoQ-XTRF integration?
How do we turn off the option to automatically create temporary TMs in a memoQ project created through integration? We found that even if
when the "Add Default Translation Memory if needed" option is
unchecked, the temporary TM will still be
created in memoQ.
I have created Selection rules for Workflow Resources, and the TMs are selected correctly in XTRF, but in memoQ, the temporary TM is always created and added as the Working/Master TM.
Customer Feedback: IS there a way to change the design?
Hello:
I wask wondering if there is a way to change the Customer Feedback webpage design. Maybe through a template that I cannot find...
It is the one you can change the questions through:
Configuration -> Client and Vendors -> Client Settings -> Satisfaction Survey [TAB]
Thanks.
My best regards.
Juan.
Customer support service by UserEcho