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, 3 Mb) (24 Nov 2008).
- Bulk edit issues (20 Oct 2008)
- Collaboration and networking (27 Oct 2008)
- Conceptual model overview (22 Nov 2008)
- Databases and backups (26 Oct 2008)
- Export options in FLEx (26 Nov 2008)
- FieldWorks database model (20 Oct 2008)
- FieldWorks Localization (26 Oct 2008)
- FieldWorks XML model (20 Oct 2008)
- Flex tips (20 Oct 2008)
- FXT export options (20 Oct 2008)
- ICU and writing systems (20 Oct 2008)
- Installation issues (22 Nov 2008)
- Keyboard input (22 Nov 2008)
- Model name changes (xls) (7 Oct 2008)
- Parser and interlinear text (3 Nov 2007)
- Python database access (30 Oct 2008)
- Rendering issues (30 Oct 2008)
- Settings files and registry (22 Nov 2008)
- SIL Encoding Converters (20 Oct 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 (15 Oct 2008)
- Technical Notes on SFM Database Import (8 Nov 2008)
- Translation Editor Import & Export (ppt) (15 Nov 2006)
- UniBook (11 Nov 2006)
- Unicode introduction (20 Oct 2008)
- Unicode introduction (ppt) (27 Sep 2006)
- Who should use TE & KKnown FW Issues (ppt) (14 Nov 2006)
- XML configuration files (27 Oct 2008)
- ZEdit (20 Oct 2008)