Send/Receive overview

In general, Send/Receive transmits data and merges changes done by other collaborators.

• Get Started with Send/Receive describes how to get started correctly.

• Send/Receive considerations lists information and practices that you and your collaborators need to discuss.

• Send/Receive menu overview describes the menu commands that you use to collaborate with others using Send/Receive features.

• On the Standard toolbar, the Send/Receive button () initiates Project or Lexicon, depending on which command was most recently used.

• Technical Notes on FieldWorks Send-Receive is available under Resources on the Help menu.

• Help on the Send/Receive menu opens the Chorus Help file. It has additional information which is specific to Chorus-enabled features.

Important

• Get project from a colleague opens the Receive project dialog box.

You see this command in the Open Project, Language Explorer, or Unable to Open Project dialog boxes.

• If you use Send/Receive:

1. • Renaming a project will force collaborators to receive the project as a new project. In this case, there will be another set of local and shared repositories.

   • The project name cannot contain non-ASCII characters.

   • Do not change the Linked Files folder location.

   • Send/Receive stops a parser. You need to restart it manually.

• As a general rule, data are included when you use the send/receive feature; Personal settings, such as views, are not included. You need to install fonts and keyboards on each computer or device separately.
  For more details, see https://software.sil.org/fieldworks/support/using-sendreceive/.

Related Topics

Chorus Hub overview

Collaborating with Others overview