Release Notes 2010

December 2010

New Features

  • Back-end Infrastructure Improvements
    • Cassandra (document store) moved to a cluster. added pre-search and caching.
    • SOLR (TM store) migration.
  • Continued Dashboard Performance Enhancements
    • Continued query optimization for streamlining data requests
    • Faster calculation of percentage complete to remove update lag.
  • Continued Workbench Improvements
    • Combined Edit window/Alternate Translations window
        Previously in the new workbench there were separate windows within the Edit Box for Alternate Translations and the Edit Window in review phase. These have been combined to prefill previous translations into the Edit Window to remove the step of copying text into the window before it can be approved.
    • Larger Edit window
        Reducing the number of rows in the Edit Box has allowed us to increase the side of the Edit Window.
    • Better Jobs and Projects listing on home page
        Jobs and Project lists are now sorted by due-date in reverse order. Total number of Jobs and Projects are displayed with a more intuitive link to the full list of information for both.
    • Email Notification Improvements
      • Direct links to projects/documents from the email
      • More detail in the email body
      • Batch sending of notifications to avoid overloading on bulk assignment

    Bugfixes

    • Emails now sending properly
        Fixed an issue preventing some password change, signup invitation, demo account signup and notification emails from being sent. All emails will now go out properly.
    • Fixed handling of long filenames and project names in table displays
    • Improved handling of formatting tags
    • Fixed a bug in generating concurrent user graphs for community admins
    • Fixed a bug with the list of jobs displayed for the Teams category
    • Fixed and issue with calculating percentage complete that sometimes allowed the number to pass 100%

    November 2010

    New Features

    • Email Notifications
      • New Assignment
      • Community Document Available
      • Project Complete
    • Performance Enhancements
      • Query optimization - Streamlining data requests
      • Index cleanup - Faster information retrieval from the data store
      • Compression - Minimizing code size to increase loading speed
    • Continued Workbench Improvements
      • Navigation across highlighted segments
          When un-translated or un-reviewed is selected from the View menu, those segments will be highlighted and the next/previous navigation will move between them. To revert back simply remove highlighting.
      • Better layout of Workbench Edit Box
          The new layout puts all navigation and buttons at the left side of the edit box, keeping the mouse in the middle of the screen for convenience.
      • The Glossaries & Terminology box no longer displays automatically
          To show the terminology window click on a highlighted term in the source.
      • Add Note directly in Notes/Comments section
          This feature has been moved from the notes icon at the top right of the edit box to the notes section at the bottom.
    • Continued Dashboard Improvements
      • Improved Community Member administration
      • Project reports are combined on one Reports tab
      • Expanded Support Menu
    • Improvements to Flagging
        Now more information is displayed about who flagged what when, and a flag can now be cleared.
    • 30-day Community Admin Trial now includes a demo project configured by default.

    Bugfixes

    • Fixed JavaScript errors when using the next/previous buttons and navigation hotkeys in the new Workbench
    • Corrected issue where changing some profile settings weren't saved
    • Repaired errors when sorting data on the Targets tab of a document
    • Find/Replace now searches correctly in the new Workbench
    • Solved a display problem on project and community graphs
    • Remove phase popup no longer shows duplicate phases
    • Corrected display issue with Advanced Language Pairs section of the profile page
    • Fixed layout issues when editing phase and segment templates in IE

    October 2010

    New Features

    • Workbench Redesign: improved interface for the former LingoDex
    • Continued Dashboard Improvements
      • Collapse/Expand of Navigation Menu; Remember State
      • Checkboxes for Select All | None
      • Highlighting of Project and Job Rows on the Home Page
      • Search/Filter Contacts
      • Revamped Document Targets
      • Assign Translators as part of create New Project
      • Additional Table Sorting and Paging
    • Dictionary Metadata Management
    • Signup / Add Contact Improvements
    • API v 3.0
    • Drupal Improvements
    • Security Improvements

    Bugfixes

    • Better auto apply of format tags
    • Contact list now sorted when making assignments
    • Fixed usability issues with several popups
    • Resolved several Server Errors (adding a phase, adding a target to a new project)
    • Resolved numerous Javascript Errors

    August 2010

    New Features

    • Redesigned and improved interface for the Lingotek Collaborative Translation Platform
    • New Project Details Reports
      • Project progress by language
      • Project progress by phases
      • Project progress by translator
    • Premium Features for your community
      • Community logo
      • Community wiki link
      • Ability to control advanced profile options
    • Support for import of OOXML documents (docx and pptx)
    • Support for import of XLIFF documents
    • Auto insertion of formatting tags
    • Better HTML support and other improvements to the Drupal Module

    Bugfixes

    • Fixed an indexing issue which cause a newly imported document to show no available segments
    • Fixed escaping of quotation marks on PO file export
    • Fixed issue with deleting a phase in a project that was already started

    June 2010

    New Features

    • Community Moderator
      • A user assigned to a community phase acts as a moderator, whose votes and translations are automatically accepted.
    • Phase Ready Options
      • You can now set a phase so that it won't become available until the previous phase is complete.
    • Project Sharing Options
      • You can now choose whether or not to share your list of assigned translators when you share a project.
    • Flagged Translator Report
      • Community Admins can now see a report of the translations that have been flagged.
    • Cassandra Migration
      • We have moved our document storage system to Cassandra, for increased stability and scalability
    • Improve Third-party authentication
      • We worked with some of our partners to make authentication easier and more secure
    • Pause/Hide a phase
      • Project managers can hide a phase if they want translators to be unable to work on it.

    Bugfixes

    • Improved highlighting for CJK languages on community phases.
    • Fixed invitation email so that it sends the correct email, and saves the email that you created.
    • Allowed for community phases to be set to 0 votes.
    • Fixed project report stats when some segments were hidden.
    • Fixed a few display bugs.

    April 2010

    New Features

    • Added new fields to Profile page
    • Implemented logger to track actions
      • In the future, this should allow us to create reports and track statistics much more easily.
    • Leaderboard API
    • Upgrade to new version of JQuery
    • Integration with Drupal
    • Added a manual save button to LingoDex Beta
    • Improved Next Button in LingoDex Beta

    Bugfixes

    • Incorrect password page now takes you back to the right community
    • Changed opacity in a number of places to improve readability
    • Fixed LingoDex closing bug when viewing an unavailable segment

    March 2010

    New Features

    • Support for OOXML documents (.docx, .xlsx, and .pptx)
    • Improved the look of the interface - more improvements coming soon!
    • Remove Translator Option on Project Page
    • Moved Acceptance Criteria to project level
      • The number of votes needed to accept a translation on a community phase can now be set on the project details page.
    • Reverse Search in target gadget
      • Right-click a translation to do a reverse TM search
    • Community Admins can now see all of the community projects on the Dashboard and Projects pages.
    • Improved algorithm for the percent complete on Community phases.
    • Added new Next button options to LingoDex

    Bugfixes

    • Improved TM Search for short segments
    • Improved RTL support on notes
    • Adding a contact now normalizes email addresses
    • Fixed some segment merging issues
    • MT was being hidden by default

    February 2010

    New Features

    • We made some major improvements to the Community Review Interface.
      • Voting now saves both positive and negative votes.
      • You can now edit your own translation. If you change a translation that has votes, it will reset the votes.
      • The differences between the first translation and the other translations are highlighted, to make it easy to quickly see what has changed.
    • Added support for Comma-Separated Value (.csv) files.
    • Began work on a Drupal module.
    • Improved some Community Admin Translator Report
    • Added support for PM-managed teams