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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 person representing a client company. This account type has 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. This might be a single film or an entire series, including supplementals. 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 a step that needs to be performed 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. 

 

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