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wxrks Editor

An overview of the wxrks Editor's layout - the top bar, segment list, and file actions - for anyone opening a translation or review task.

The wxrks Editor is where translation and review work actually happens: a segment-by-segment workspace with a top bar for file info and delivery actions, a side menu for comments, suggestions, QA, and reference material, and the segment list itself, where you read the source and write or revise the translation.

This article covers the parts of the Editor that are common to every task — the top bar, the icons that open its side panels, and the anatomy of a segment. It doesn't repeat what's covered elsewhere: for a tab-by-tab walkthrough of the side menu, see wxrks Editor Menu for Vendors; for what changes when your task is a review step rather than a translation step, see How to review in wxrks.

💡 Who is this for? This guide is for anyone who opens a task in the wxrks Editor — Vendors translating or reviewing content, as well as Project Managers and Account Admins checking on a file. A few things described here (like the Feedback button) are permission- and setting-gated, so you may not see every element in every project.


Opening the Editor

From a project's Tasks tab, click a file's name — labeled Open in Editor when you hover it — to open that task in the Editor. It opens in a new browser tab or popup window, so your project view stays open in the background.

Project Tasks tab with a file's Open in Editor link highlighted


Top bar

The top bar carries the file's identity and the actions that move a task forward.

wxrks Editor top bar with filename and size, workflow step, and Translate action highlighted

  • Filename & size — the file's name and size. A long name is truncated; hover it to see the full name and extension.

  • Workflow step — a small badge showing the current step (Translation, a review step, etc.) alongside the source and target languages. It's often too narrow to show the full step name — hover it for the complete label.

  • Segments — a dropdown with Select All and, if you have the Confirm all permission, Confirm All for bulk actions across up to 1,000 segments at a time, plus Go to Segment to jump straight to a segment number in a large file.

  • Translate — runs pre-translation (Translation Memory, Machine Translation, and/or AI, depending on the project's settings) into empty or selected segments, without waiting for auto-translation at project approval.

  • Download — downloads the translated file, the modified source file, or the original file.

  • Deliver Task — delivers the task. wxrks checks for tag mismatches first; if it finds any, it warns you before you can proceed, so you can fix them or deliver anyway.*

* The tag-mismatch check itself wasn't independently re-verified against source for this rebuild; this description carries forward the prior article's explanation because it matched the delivery flow's general shape in `DeliveryTaskButton.vue`.

Feedback button (Reviewer Feedback)

On a review-step task, a Feedback button can appear next to Deliver Task once every task in the delivery is delivered or pending confirmation. It opens a form to rate and comment on the work of the vendor from the previous workflow step, per task or with one score for the whole batch.

This button is controlled by a setting actually called Reviewer Feedback — not "Feedback Button" or "General Feedback," names an earlier version of this article used. It has to be turned on in two places for the button to show up: the Reviewer Feedback toggle at the account level, and the equivalent setting on the Organizational Unit used by the project. If either is off, the button won't appear. It also never appears on a plain Translation-step task, since feedback always flows from a reviewer back to whoever worked the step before them.

[SCREENSHOT PLACEHOLDER: the Feedback button next to Deliver Task, and its "Add reviewer feedback" form] — this needs a task that's (a) on a review step, not Translation, (b) already delivered or pending confirmation, and (c) in a project whose account and Organizational Unit both have Reviewer Feedback turned on. The current screenshot sandbox project doesn't have that combination of settings and task state, and building one was out of scope for this pass.


Preview, Menu, and Help

Three icons sit in the top-right corner of the Editor, left to right: Preview, Menu, and Help.

wxrks Editor top bar right-hand icons for Preview, Menu, and Help highlighted


Segments

Below the top bar is the segment list — the file broken into individual translatable units.

A single wxrks Editor segment with the source field, translation field, and lock icon highlighted

  • Source is read-only. To change source text, edit the original file offline and re-upload it — you can't edit a source segment inside wxrks.

  • Translation is where you type or revise the target text. Below it, a small label identifies where a pre-filled suggestion came from (Translation Memory, Machine Translation, AI, or a Glossary) and, for a TM match, the match percentage; the label turns green once the segment is confirmed.

  • Lock automatically confirms a segment along with locking it.

A few other things you'll notice in the list: each segment shows a character count for both source and translation, a confirm/unconfirm icon whose exact appearance depends on the workflow step (a review step shows a distinct "Reviewed" state — see How to review in wxrks for what's different there), and, on repeated content, a small repetition icon in the corner. Repetitions only copy a translation from the first occurrence downward, never the other way.


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