FieldWorks Lite
Share this at https://lexbox.org/fw-lite
at the bottom you will find a list of 'Assets', for windows you probably want to download FwLiteDesktop.msixbundle which is the Windows installer
- 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.
- logs can be found in
%appdata%\SIL\FwLiteDesktop\DataC:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\SIL\FwLiteDesktop\Data - there are 2 files, app.log and web-app.log, be sure to send both.