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Getting Started Guide
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My Account
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  1. Create jobs
  2. Add job comments
  3. Quote
  4. Approve quotes
  5. Dispatch jobs
Implementing
Making DTP and LSO Review Changes

Finalizing
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You can use My Account to save your details and preferences.

You can set your basic contact details as well as your preferences for using the editors.

Make the changes and click Save.

You can define:

  1. Basic account settings
  2. Contact Info
  3. Account Options
  4. Download Options

Opening My Account

You can open My Account by clicking My Account at the top left.

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Setting Your Basic Account Settings

To set your basic account settings:

  1. Click My Account. Edit My Account - Basic Information opens
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  2. Add your First Name
  3. Add your Last Name
  4. Add your Title
  5. Click Save

The username and company are defined in the project setup and cannot be edited.

Setting Your Contact Info

To set your contact info:

  1. Click My Account. Edit My Account - Basic Information opens
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  2. Click Contact Info. Edit My Account - Contact Information opens
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  3. Add your Address
  4. Add your Home Phone
  5. Add your Work Phone
  6. Add your Cell Phone
  7. Add your Fax
  8. Add your Email Address
  9. Add your CC Email Address
  10. Add your BCC Email Address
  11. Add your Locale for Email and Date/Times*
  12. Click Done

Setting Your Notification Options

You can define whether you would like to receive email notifications and for which events.

To set your notification options:

  1. Click My Account. Edit My Account - Basic Information opens
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  2. Click Notification Options. Email Notification Options opens
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  3. Click Enable Email Notification to switch on the notifications
  4. Select the actions about which you would like to be notified
  5. Click >> to move them to the Send me the following emails list
  6. Click Done

Setting Your Account Options

You can set the options for GlobalSight's online editors:

You can also set some of these options from inside the editors.

To set your account options:

  1. Click My Account. Edit My Account - Basic Information opens
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  2. Click Account Options. Account Options opens
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  3. Select your General Options. Select how the name of the file is displayed on the Job Details page:
  4. Set your Editor Selection: The editor that you select is the one that opens by default when you click on a source file
    • Inline Editor: Inline Editor is the basic editor for online editing
      Inline Editor

    • Popup Editor: Pop-up Editor is a more advanced and feature-rich editor for online editing
      Pop-up Editor

    • Maximum number of segments per page: The number of segments to show per page. 0 is the default
  5. Select your Main Editor Options. You can also set these options in Pop-up Editor by clicking Options
    • Select the colors that you would like to use for links and match types
    • Automatically unlock segments: Allow segments to be unlocked for editing automatically
    • Automatically sync segments
    • Default Layout: Select how you want to content to show in the editor. The default is a vertical split with the source on the left and the target on the right
    • Default View Mode:
      • Preview
      • Text
      • List. List is the default
    • Enable close all comments: Allow all comments to be closed
  6. Set your Segment Editor Options: Segment Editor is the editor that pops up when you are editing a segment using Pop-up Editor
    Segment Editor

    • Automatically save segments: Select whether segments are saved automatically in Pop-up Editor when closing a segment
    • Automatically adjust trailing whitespace: GlobalSight uses the white space at the end of a segment to separate one segment from the next, resulting in white spaces at the end of segments. Trailing whitespace in certain segment types such as URLs and localizable script segments is automatically removed
    • Default PTag Mode: Select how placeholder tags are used. Placeholder tags are representations of html tags that may need to be moved as part of localization. For example links:
      • Compact: Placeholder tags are shown as compact - [l1][/l1]
      • Verbose: Placeholder tags are shown as verbose - [link1][/link1]
  7. Click Done

Setting Your Download Options

The download options are those used when you download files to work offline.

To set your download options:

  1. Click My Account. Edit My Account - Basic Information opens
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  2. Click Download Options. Download Offline Files Options opens
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  3. Select your General Options:
    • Format:
      • OmegaT: Export the content in an OmegaT-optimized kit
      • Optimized Bilingual TRADOS® RTF: Exports the content as a list of bilingual Trados segments. Shows the current or suggested translations within the RTF
      • RTF (list view): Exports the content as a list of individual segments. Matches are from the TMX file, not by pre-segmenting or pre-translating the RTF files
      • Xliff 1.2: Exports the content in XLIFF format. Format recommended for SDL Trados (Tag Editor) and other XLIFF-capable tools
      • Trados 7 TTX: Export the content as a Trados 7 TTX file
    • Placeholder Format: Compact or Verbose
    • TM Options:
      • Annotations
      • TMX File – 1.4b
      • Both (TMX File 1.4b and Annotations)
      • None
    • Terminology:
      • HTML
      • TBX
      • TRADOS MultiTerm iX
      • None
    • Allow Edit of Locked Segments:
      • Allow Edit ICE and 100% Locked Segments
      • Allow Edit ICE Locked Segments
      • Allow Edit 100% Locked Segments
      • Deny Edit
      • Note: Depending on the option selected, less of the overall wordcount is exposed for translation as segments have been locked. Locked segments are not counted in external translation tools. For comparable counts between GlobalSight and external tools, select Allow Edit ICE and 100% Locked Segments
    • Populate 100% Target Segments
    • Populate Fuzzy Target Segments
    • Consolidate Output File: download the whole kit as one file
    • Include Repeated Segments as Separate File: select whether to export repetitions. The repetitions can be saved into a TM and then leveraged against the existing project by updating the leverage and the word count. The result is 100% matches
  4. Click Done