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Questions about recent Automation webinar

Sancho Leath 6 years ago in Home Portal / Smart Projects • updated by Maciej (XTRF Senior Deployment & Training Specialist) 5 years ago • 1

Just watched the recorded webinar "Automation of the Translation Process" and had a few questions (possibly for Maciej):

  1. Number of Availability Days does not seem to be available for the Select Vendor popup view, correct? This is a great feature I was unaware of and I can reproduce it on the regular Vendor view, but not where it would be most useful (Select Vendor view in actual project).
  2. Job Offer page (hyperlink in Job Offer mail to vendors) does not show the Volume (source words) information that was entered to automate the approximate deadline. Is this a settings issue? The need for proposing an alternative deadline from the vendor side is already discussed elsewhere on this forum.
  3. Preferred Vendors on customer level is very useful. Any way of ranking such vendors? In the real world, you will have a pool of preferred vendors by client, but within that pool a prioritization is needed to make sure 1st choice is contacted first before the backup candidates.
  4. While there is the useful function to split a job, is there any way to merge jobs, e.g. that have been automatically split but will be handled by the same vendor (e.g. freelancers decline job and jobs are assigned to agency instead)?

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Maciej (XTRF Senior Deployment & Training Specialist) 5 years ago

I don't know how this was missed and I believe you found your answers long time ago, but to confirm:

  1. No, this filter is not available there, in the Select Vendor pop-up. The upcoming Vendor Workload overhaul should be helpful
  2. Volume is not meant for the Vendors. It is a Project-level attribute and would be irrelevant for any Vendor, whose work is not counted by the main calculation unit, or is just involved in a fraction of the general volume. 
  3. There is no ranking for preferred vendors, no. 
  4. There is no smart way to merge jobs. You need to reassign languages and delete the unused, empty job with no languages. If you have several jobs with different Payables, dates and statuses, merging them raises a ton of questions. 

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Maciej (XTRF Senior Deployment & Training Specialist) 5 years ago

I don't know how this was missed and I believe you found your answers long time ago, but to confirm:

  1. No, this filter is not available there, in the Select Vendor pop-up. The upcoming Vendor Workload overhaul should be helpful
  2. Volume is not meant for the Vendors. It is a Project-level attribute and would be irrelevant for any Vendor, whose work is not counted by the main calculation unit, or is just involved in a fraction of the general volume. 
  3. There is no ranking for preferred vendors, no. 
  4. There is no smart way to merge jobs. You need to reassign languages and delete the unused, empty job with no languages. If you have several jobs with different Payables, dates and statuses, merging them raises a ton of questions. 

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