Tips for project managers and admins
Once you understand the basics of project and jobs, it is a good idea to get familiar with the tools that will simplify your working day and boost efficiency and accuracy.
The project bar
A lot of your work as a project manager will start with the project bar. (Please note that most...
Project filtering
As a project manager, you will often need to access different groups of projects. By filtering th...
Project/job reports
Detailed data about projects and jobs can be collected and exported from Plint in the following w...
Finding jobs across multiple projects
Sometimes you need to find jobs that have certain criteria in common in a whole range of projects...
The Calendar
The Calendar provides a customisable overview of what's going on. You can specify what to see b...
The Filezone
The Filezone is where (almost) all files linked to a project can be found, by users with Workbenc...
Sharing files across projects
If multiple projects require access same files, especially video/media, consider setting up a Par...
Extended functions for Clients and Resources
There are cases where you need to enable a certain guest user to do more. Client users with ad...
Project defaults
Often, a client will place orders with the same target languages. There are several ways of avoid...
Notifications about system events
When editing user data, you can specify which events in the system should result in a notificatio...
System timezone
The time for system events like messages and support questions is always stored as UTC. Setting a...
Finding People by what they've worked on
Besides data directly linked to People/users (target languages, job types, tags, etc ...), Plint ...
Downloading converted subtitles as a batch
Once a subtitling job has been started, there is a work file in Plint (JSON) which is used throug...
Additional security
Plint Subtitler Visible watermark To discourage screen capture and similar activity, a visible ...
Sharing files with external users
The "Share page" is a simple way of making files in Plint available to users who don't have a Pli...
Handling changes in a subtitling template in mid-workflow (Reset job + Load translations)
It's a familiar problem: after translation has begun, a new version of the media is delivered. Pe...
Reusing translations within the same project (Load translations)
The functionality which enables updating a template in mid-project can also be used to import tra...
Removing jobs in the middle of a workflow
New function Dec 2023 Adding jobs to a workflow has always been easy in Plint Core, removing the...