You appear to be able to edit the source text (in my case Japanese to English translation, so Japanese) just by inserting your cursor in the source field and making any changes you like. This could cause problems if you mistakenly type over the source text, for example.
I would rather have the source text protected like it is in the old editor.
Thanks,
Mike Holland
Good morning Mike,
We are currently discussing about the situation, we will let you know what has been decided.
Meanwhile, you can still choose to lock every source cells easily. It will prevent you to change the source text, and you will still be able to modify the text by unlocking the cell.
What you need to do is to go to "Actions" => "Lock/Unlock" => Select your source language => Click on "Lock" => Click on "Apply"
Kind regards,
Florent Mauer
Wordbee Support
Hi Florent,
Thanks for your response. I think it would be better to make this a platform/company specific setting so users would not have to lock all the segments each time they opened a document.
Thanks,
Mike
I agree with Mike. It's nice to add "default lock" option into platform setting. Currently, project managers need to do this for every file assigned to internal workers.
Hello to everyone following this thread.
We have listened to your feedback and have been working on implementing a new function that should work well for both users that wish to edit source text easily and those who wish to keep protection on source text at all times, no matter what the access rights are.
This function is currently in our release pipeline and is expected to be released next week. Here's what you can expect :
Now, source texts will always be locked by default. But, if you wish to edit source text, and you have the access rights to do so, you'll have access to this new switch in the column headers :
We hope that this solution will answer your needs. Please feel free to give us your feedback once this feature goes live on our servers.
Kind regards,
Alex
Hi Alex,
Thanks for working on this functionality. Looking forward to trying it out.
Best regards,
Mike
Hi Alex,
Thanks for your update! It's great news to our in-house linguists.
Kind regards,
Jessica
I can see the switch now. As with the Status tool tip, if you could at some point make an edit source text status tool tip appear when you hover over the switch, it would be helpful I think.
Regards,
Mike