Best Practices

Here you can find some hints that will help you to use Verifika™ in a more efficient use.

Work with Settings

Reuse of settings

If you often use the same checks with different language settings and different filesets, the following procedure will help you to work faster:

  1. Create an empty project
  2. Select language-specific settings for each required target language
  3. Save the project

You can save several such projects with different settings:

  • For different clients
  • For different project types

Whenever you need to check files, just open this project, add files and start working.

Important! Because some languages have variants for different countries, it may cause problems if you receive the files with a language code that you did not expect (e.g. files for Spanish (Spain) were occasionally prepared as Spanish (Venezuela)). In this case the defined settings won’t be applied to files with a different language code, and you will have to copy settings from the language that was set up to the new language variant.

If you prepare an empty project for future use and have sample files with required languages, you can add these files to make sure the language codes are recognized correctly and define language-specific settings for these languages. Then the files with the same language codes will be checked according to the same rules.

A possibility to change language associated with the files will be added in the future. Then you will be able to apply rules for the language for which they have been set to any files.

Work with Reports

List capabilities

Sorting

By one column

  • The first click on the column heading sorts ascending
  • The second click on the column heading sorts descending
  • The third click on the column heading cancels sorting

By several columns

  • Set up sorting by the first column
  • Hold Shift and set up sorting by other columns (clicking the heading in the same way)
Grouping

Add grouping

  • Just drag the column heading to the area above the headings
  • You can group by several columns dragging them to this area in the required order

Delete grouping

  • Drag the group out of the area above the headings

Sort by groups

  • Sort just like you do to sort by columns
  • Click the group to sort by it
Filtering
  1. Position the mouse curser over the column heading. A down arrow will appear on the right.
  2. Left-click this arrow to open the list of available values
  3. Click the values that you need to keep. The second click allows to cancel selection.
  4. To cancel filtering, click Clear Filter above the values.
Selecting columns
  • Right-click any column heading. The list of selectable columns will open (you cannot hide columns that are not in the list).
  • Left-click columns to enable or disable them.

Efficient work with common errors report

  • Navigate through the report by groups (click the down arrow in the group heading to move to any group at this level).
  • Hide “No errors”:
    1. Filter on status column.
    2. Select only red box.
  • Use Space to set “No error” status (the focus should be on the error list, just click any line).
  • Use Ctrl+Space to apply suggested auto-correction.
  • To correct errors with no auto-correction (or where the auto-correction is not right) follow these steps:
    1. Press Enter to enter Edit more. The focus should be on the list, just click any line.
    2. Edit the segment using your keyboard.
    3. Press Enter to apply changes or Escape to cancel all changes in the segment.
    4. Use up/down arrows to move to another error.
  • Use copy (Ctrl+C), paste (Ctrl+Y) and undo (Ctrl+Z) in segment editor.
  • If you exported the report to Excel to send it to a translator, and not you have it with the translator’s feedback.
    • Check the project with the same settings to get the report
    • Remove default grouping in the report
    • Apply the same sorting as in the Excel file:
      • By filename (then press Shift)
      • By message (holding Shift)
      • By position (holding Shift)
  • As the result, you will get the same line order as you have in the Excel file and will able to apply translator’s feedback easily.

Efficient work with inconsistency errors report

  • Hide “No errors”:
    1. Filter on status column.
    2. Select only red box.
  • Use Space to set “No error” status (the focus should be on the error list, just click any line)
  • First correct errors for which auto-correction is provided (these are target inconsistency errors detected during tag- and case-sensitive check).
  • Use Ctrl+Space to replace all segments with the selected one (works only if the focus is on the inconsistent segments, just click one of the inconsistent segment lines).