SIL FieldWorks
A suite of software tools to help language teams manage language and cultural data, with support for complex scripts.
Technical Support Documents
The lead developer has written the following documents for technical support staff to use when troubleshooting and helping end-users to use FieldWorks. These documents are not aimed at an average user, and for the most part contain information that users will never need to know to use the program. We hope you find them useful.
The documents are all MS Word documents, except for those marked with ppt.
Download all (zip, 2.6Mb) (11 Jan 2008).
- Bulk edit issues (9 Jan 2008)
- Collaboration and networking (2 Nov 2007)
- Conceptual model overview (21 Nov 2007)
- Databases and backups (10 Jan 2008)
- Export options in FLEx (3 Nov 2007)
- FieldWorks database model (7 Dec 2007)
- FieldWorks Localization (9 Jan 2008)
- FieldWorks XML model (14 Nov 2007)
- Flex tips (11 Jan 2008)
- FXT export options (3 Nov 2007)
- ICU and writing systems (30 Nov 2007)
- Installation issues (11 Jan 2008)
- Keyboard input (19 Dec 2007)
- Parser and interlinear text (3 Nov 2007)
- Python database access (3 Nov 2007)
- Rendering issues (3 Nov 2007)
- Settings files and registry (21 Nov 2007)
- SIL Encoding Converters (9 Jan 2008)
- Tech Support Workshop - Customizing XML Files (16 Nov 2006)
- Tech Support Workshop - TE Import and Export (15 Nov 2006)
- Technical Notes on LinguaLinks Database Import (13 Nov 2007)
- Technical Notes on SFM Database Import (3 Nov 2007)
- Translation Editor Import & Export (ppt) (15 Nov 2006)
- UniBook (11 Nov 2006)
- Unicode introduction (21 Nov 2007)
- Unicode introduction (ppt) (27 Sep 2006)
- Who should use TE & KKnown FW Issues (ppt) (14 Nov 2006)
- XML configuration files (3 Nov 2007)
- ZEdit (27 Nov 2007)