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Payment terms with end of month...
One of our payment terms is 45 days end of month. This means that the calculation is first of all based on 45 days after invoice date, then we go to the end the related month. For instance, for an invoice issued on January 20th, the due date is 31st of March.
When we choose end of month and 45 days in the XTRF parameters for payment terms, for an invoice issued on January 20th, the calculated due date us 15th of March, since XTRF goes to the end of month first, then add 45 days...
How to do?
You are right.
XTRF first goes to the end of the month, then adds x days.
I'm afraid there isn't any other way per available settings.
How can I change the quote language?
Hallo,
I want to send a quote in Italian, but the quote always is in English. How can I change that?
Thanks
Elisabetta
Hi,
You need to activate the Italian quote template in settings -> Document Templates. You can also set it to default.
How can I add files to closed project?
I want to add an offline deliverable to a closed project, but I can't see an option to do that anywhere.
Hi NadiA
To add files to a closed project you need to change the project status. In XTRF project becomes closed automatically when all process steps are in the Ready od Canceled status.
the simplest way to reopen the project is to change the status of one of the steps (for example the last step in the process) back to start, add the files add then change the step status to Ready.
You can do similar if the step is canceled, you can change it to Opened and then back to Canceled again.
best regards,
Marek
How can I edit payables in a closed project?
I am trying to edit the payables of a provider, in a project which has already been closed (payables were not entered at the moment of creating it). It doesn't allow any change.
How to add a past project from 2018 by not affecting the project code row of 2019?
Hi,
I want to add some missing projects from 2018 for more accurate statistical reports but when I add a new project, it is listed with the code starting with 2019. I want it to be listed as 2018. Although I select the starting and ending dates of the project as 2018, this affects the project row of 2019. Is it possible to change the automatically created project codes?
Also, when we delete a project, its code disappears. I mean, if I delete the project coded 2019/52 and I want to create another project with the same code, I cannot do that. The new project I create is coded as 2019/53. Can someone also help me about these issues?
Thanks in advance.
Burcu Demirörs
The "Project Code" can be modified in Configuration/Templates/Numbering Schemes. If you create a project in 2019, the project ID will also have 2019 no matter how you change the dates in the project itself. In essence the ID never can be changed after the project has been created. This is a Good Thing.
The latter part in the ID comes from a running counter, so you just cannot create two projects with the same number.
Just asking: Why do you want to create reports depending on the project ID? Why not just use the dates in the project in the first place?
What is the difference between a task and a job?
I haven't been able to figure it out, and the XTRF Knowledge base hasn't been very helpful. Thank you!
Hi Marcela,
The easiest way to explain the difference would be that a task is one whole workflow and a job is one part of a workflow (e.g. translation job, review job ...). So jobs are parts of a workflow and a task is the whole workflow.
Kind regards,
Peter
How should we register 'pre-invoicing'?
As we near the end of the year, some of our clients ask us to invoice an amount before the work is actually done (or even started).
What is the best way to do this without messing up reporting and other checks?
I imagine we could create an invoiced based on a 'dummy' task, or even with just items, and mark future 'real' tasks as uninvoiceable, but it seems a bit messy and prone to confusion and mistakes. Also, it would highly likely mess up reporting.
Are there better ways to do this?
Mark is right. If you know exactly the amount of the future project you can invoice it upfront.
But if you're unsure about the exact values and it is actually a credit, you can use the prepayment.
All you need to have is a project for the client, it doesn't have to have any language combinations or tasks, the project level itself is enough to add prepayment and then invoice it in a regular way.
Then you can freely add tasks to this project and create invoices for those tasks. The system will remember that there's a prepayment and it will be cleared on the final invoice.
Not setting target language
Hello again, I have a DTP project that has EN as source language but many languages as target which are not really relevant to the project, since this is not a language thing but a design thing. Is it OK if I don't set up a target language? What will happen with my receivable if I do this? Thank you!
Hi Marcela
Technically the project in XTRF requires both source and target language, at least form the Vendor assignment perspective. You can't select a Vendor for a job if there's no language pair.
And since you can't select a Vendor you can't start and complete job, thus the project won't get closed.
In a case like this, when the Target language is not so important, I'd suggest selecting the same language twice, as both the source and target of the project.
Best regards,
Marek
Compatibility with memoQ server 8.6?
memoQ server 8.6 contained some crucial bug fixes. Before we upgrade our memoQ server from 8.5 to 8.6, could you please confirm compatibility? I know that XTRF Development was still working on some bug fixes in the XTRF-memoQ 8.5 integration. What's the update on that front?
Hi Sancho
We're currently working on the compatibility tests and I can only say what Jamie already mentioned, so far so good.
It's not official support yet, because we haven't run all the tests we have for the integration.
Oficial confirmation shouldn't take more than 2 weeks, but this is just my raw estimate.
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