The video showing how to create a local project from a STAR Transit package, customize it, and then publish it to a memoQ TMS server is, from the perspective of online project management, mostly applicable in situations where the person setting the project up
may have an unreliable connection to the Internet,
needs to perform preparation steps (like pretranslation using LiveDocs corpora or term mining) that would be difficult using server-based resources,
wants to test configuration alternatives or include resources that have not yet been placed on the server,
is unable to obtain a PM CAL license reliably from the server (which sometimes occurs when staff have too few licenses available) or
unexpectedly has to continue work at another location on what otherwise might be handled entirely as a local project. (A quick trial of the memoQ cloud server — free for the first month — is a good option for project mobility for independent translators and reviewers as well, but some basic training in memoQ online project management is usually needed because the PM environment is very different than the familiar wordface for translation and review.)
I’ve been in all these situations.
Where the Internet bandwidth is good and secure and there are no issues with license scarcity or other aforementioned points, it is more amenable to most project managers to set up the project, in the case of the video here once again a project from a STAR Transit package, directly on the server as an online project, rather than create the project locally and publish it to the server later. Direct creation of an online project also avoid the accidental duplication of local resources published redundantly to the server, which happens sometimes with project managers who lack training and practical experience to back it up.
What are your preferences for the path to creating online projects? Creating local project and publishing them to the server, or doing online projects directly? Why?
STAR Transit NXT projects in memoQ online