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FieldWorks Lite

Kevin Hahn edited this page Oct 8, 2024 · 21 revisions

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About

  • This is very much an alpha, so make sure your data is backed up first if it's important. If you use Lexbox S/R, then your data is already backed up and you're good.
  • The landing page should have a simple list of all your FW projects (right now it's hard coded to list each folder in 'C:\ProgramData\SIL\FieldWorks\Projects'), click the open button with the FW icon and it will open the editor on the page.
  • When working with this editor all changes are saved automatically once you finish editing a field (once the text field loses focus)
  • All entries created will have the Morph type of stem (root in the build above), we can change that default if something else makes more sense, but I don't think it makes sense to expose that in a simple tool like this.
  • The FW project will be locked while using this tool, meaning you can't open the project in flex while you have it open in FW Lite. There will be a button to open an entry in FW, this will close the project in FW Lite, and launch FW using the link to entry feature in FW.
  • To get a new project or S/R changes to a project, open FieldWorks and do it there.
  • FW Lite supports editing Entry, Sense, and Example Sentences. Some things like Part of Speech and Semantic domains are supported on Sense. If you want to change the name of a part of speech or add a new one that must be done from within FieldWorks.
  • 🚧 There are buttons to reorder senses and example sentences, however those changes don't get saved right now.
  • 🚧 Sorting of entries is by headword, we may consider adding other sort options in the future
  • The little book button to the left of the filter bar shows a list of exemplar characters and will let you filter by those.

🐛 Bug Reports

  • logs can be found in %appdata%\SIL\FwLiteDesktop\Data C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\SIL\FwLiteDesktop\Data
  • there are 2 files, app.log and web-app.log, be sure to send both.
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