Managing Standard Jobs

Standard projects organize work into jobs that you assign to suppliers. This page shows where to find your Standard jobs, how to read each job's status and progress, and how to assign and manage them.

Where to find your Standard jobs

You can see Standard jobs in two places:

• Across all projects: click Jobs in the main menu, then open the Standard jobs tab.

• Within one project: open the project and go to the 5. Jobs tab.

Both show the same job rows and columns. Use the status dropdown (Jobs - Any status) and the Search icon to narrow a long list, and My searches to reuse a saved filter.

Reading the jobs list

Each row is one job. The columns are:

Tracking job progress

The Progress column shows how far a job has progressed without opening it. The bar splits the job's segments into four parts, with a % approved label:

To read and refresh a job's progress:

1. Hover the bar to see the total segment count, each part as a count and a percentage, and when the figures were last updated.

2. Click the bar to open the job's Counts & Activity view for the full breakdown.

3. Click the refresh icon next to the bar to recompute the figures on demand. The bar shows the last saved figures, so it can briefly differ from the live numbers until you refresh.

A job with no saved figures yet shows an empty bar with the refresh option; a job with no segments to track shows N/A. The column appears by default and can be hidden or reordered like any other column.

Segment status shown in the bar

A segment's status is grey (neutral), green (approved), or red (a problem). Each segment has a project-level global status, and, when per-job status is enabled, each job also keeps its own status so one workflow step's status does not overwrite another's. In a job you see and set that job's status; outside a job you see the global status. The Progress bar reflects the job's own statuses. If a job turns a segment red while its global status is green, the global status drops to grey; a job going all-green does not by itself approve segments at project level.

Make a workflow step approve segments project-wide

To let a specific step (for example, the final revision) set the project-level status, open the project's Workflow & Suppliers tab and turn on Save segment status to the global segment status for that step. Every status change in that step (by hand or by QA) is then saved directly to the segment's shared (global) status, and the step keeps no separate status of its own. Enable it deliberately: a change in such a step, including by an external worker, can overwrite a shared status set by project-level QA.

This option is available only when segment status per job is enabled for your platform (see the note above); until then, the control is not shown on the Workflow & Suppliers tab.

Assigning and managing jobs

• Assign a supplier: select Choose supplier on a job, or use Manage / Select to open View details, Edit details, or Cost.

• Act on the list: use the top bar to Print, Export word counts, Export, Import, or open Actions for bulk operations.

• Track delivery: the Counts & Activity icons open the word count, the work-progress view, and job messages (an orange bubble means an unread message).

• Completed jobs: the word-count popup of a completed job also shows an Edit distance row.

Learn More

• Managing Codyt Jobs: The equivalent workflow for Codyt projects.

• Check the Work Status: The Counts & Activity view opened from the Progress bar.

• How linguists track their own progress per job: Turn on per-job segment status and see how job status relates to the shared global status.

• The Segments: How segment statuses work in the Editor.

• Job Edit Distance: How the edit-distance figure on completed jobs is measured.