People, projects, processes 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
  • Root / admin users, with access to all projects, accounts and data
• Manager
  • A customisable login type which can potentially access all the same tools and data as a Workbench user
  • 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 or for a certain client company. 
  • 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.

Who sees what?

• As a Workbench or Manager user, you have full access to all information within the scope of that project, 
  • This includes general project data, files and jobs as well as notes and messages linked to individual jobs on the project.
• As a Client user, you can create a project by placing an order. After this point, changes to the project need to be done by a project manager but you can always follow the general progress of the project. 
  • You also have access to a client Filezone where relevant files for all parts and languages can be made available. 
• As a Resource user, you have no overview of the project itself, only jobs assigned to you. All information and files necessary to complete a job needs to made available in the scope of the job.
  • Project information automatically visible to all job owners is the project title and project manager.   

Jobs

A job is a step that needs to be performed in order for a Project to be completed. Typically 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. 

Joblists

Jobs are linked to projects in interlinked chains called joblists. These can be created manually, or automatically using Joblist templates, based on project data. 

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A number of consecutive Jobs linked to a Project. Jobs are typically assigned to People, but may also represent an automated step.