People, projects and jobs

People

People are users/accounts in Plint. They could represent an in-house resource or an outside freelancer, a project manager or a client contact representing a company. They could also be a vendor – a company providing a service. All People can be assigned Jobs in Plint.

Accounts are divided into four types.

Workbench
Almight admin users, with access to all projects, accounts and data

Manager A customisable login type. Access can be set for:

Specific tools/pages Projects or People matching certain criteria A typical example would be a project manager who only sees projects and resources with certain target languages. Inside the scope of those projects, the user still has access to alls tools, details and communication. Another example would be a finance manager with access only to relevant tools, such as reporting and rate cards. Client

Typically a contact person for a client company. Read access to all projects for the same company and some tools not available to Resource users. Resource

An in-house or external user or vendor responsible for specific jobs. Resource users do not have access to overall project information and the general progress. Instead, all necessary information to complete a job is visible in the context of the job itself.

Projects

A project in Plint is something that needs to be done: typically media in need of localization. The project serves as a container for all the information about the project, such as number of episodes and their running times, the source language and the target languages.

Jobs

A job is something that needs to be in order for a Project to be completed. A typical job as a translation job assigned to a freelancer, or preparatory work assigned to a project manager. But it may also be an automated task represented as a job in the workflow: a process.

Jobs are linked to projects in interlinked chains called joblists.