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Home / Online Help / Creating a New User

Creating a New User

Creating a new Translation project includes several steps, each described below.

1. Click on the "Users" tab on the main menu
... Forum   Users   Admin ...  
2. Click on the "Add a new project" symbol in the projects submenu. Hold the mouse over the symbol (don't click!), and a comment will appear ("Add a new user").
...   Org Chart   Add a new project
3. The "Add User" page should appear. Here you can fill out the users email, first and second names and the password  

4. Choose the User Profile of the new user. The membership of these groups determine which business object the user can see, modify or administer.

Please note that the groups Employees, Freelancers and Clients are mutally exclusive (it doesn't make sense have an employee who acts as a client for example).

Profile

Effects of Creating a New User

Step 4 initiates several actions:

  • It creates a new user that appears in
    Users
  • It creates a new folder for the users files
  • It send an email notification to the new user.

Contact Information

Contact information allow to specify a large number of address related information about a user. Special fields include:

  • ICQ Number:
    The AOL ICQ messenger number
  • MSN Email ("MSN"):
    The users Microsoft MSN Messenger Email - this email allows ]project-open[ to display the online status of the user.

User Portraits

Users portrait are used typically in the intranets of distributed organizations to present employees to the staff of other offices. Knowing about employees of other offices allows for easier communication and improves the coherence in a distributed organization.

User Filestorage

This field shows the content of a filestorage space associated with each user. The space is meant to store CVs, contracts and other user specific information. The filestorage contents is visible only for:

  • Administrators
  • Senior Management
  • Human Resources Staff (future)

Related Links:

  • Project Filestorage
  • Customer Filestorage

Freelance Information

This box only appears for freelancers and contains freelance specific information:

  1. Trans Rate
  2. Editing Rate
  3. Hourly Rate
  4. Bank Account
  5. Bank ID
  6. Payment Method
  7. Note
  8. Private Note

Freelance Skills

Freelance skills are list of "Skill Type" - "Qualification" pairs that describe the skills of a freelancer.

Skills
Source Language Target Language Sworn Language TM Tools LOC Tools Operating System Subjects
Skill Claim
enHigh
ca_ES
fr
Skill Claim
es_ESHigh
Skill Claim
fr 
Skill Claim
Trados 3.xMedium 
Skill Claim
Skill Claim
Skill Claim
EcoHigh