From comments to Inbox: who sees what in a proofing workflow?
Besides literally starting a message thread with a project manager from a job info page, there is another step in Plint workflows which will automatically launch a thread with the project manager: adding a General comment on status change. This comment can also be made visible to other users. This example will explain how:
- Freelancer A completes a job in Plint Subtitler
- Freelancer A changes status and leaves a General comment
- Adding a General comment automatically creates an Message thread with Project manager
- The thread is linked to the job
- An automatic notification email about this thread is sent to the PM as well
- The thread includes the comment
- Another automatic email is sent to the owner of the child job
- In this case Proofing, owned by Freelancer B
- This email does not contain the General comment
- However, Freelancer B can see it under Track changes along with the Milestone for the status change
- Freelancer B completes proofing in Plint Subtitler
- On status change, Freelancer B set Approved to "No" and adds a General comment
- This comment also results in a Message thread
- This one between Freelancer B and Project manager
- Each freelancer can only see their own threads
- Since the translation was not Approved, the parent job is reopened