A question is an inquiry that is intended to get information or clarification from other people.
An answer is a reply to the question. See Also: Comments.
People with the role of Administrator, and possibly others with permission, can do all or some of these tasks:
Add and answer questions to direct and control discussions about the translation work. Questions and answers can be typed text and/or recorded audio.
Admins can see all answers to a question without having to answer that question themselves.
Archive or republish a question.
Delete a question.
Delete another person's answer.
Edit their questions and their own answers.
Import questions from Transcelerator.
Read or hear an answer.
Work with answers (export, resolve or delete).
See the counts and icons of questions, answers, comments and likes.
People with other roles can do these tasks, if they are enabled:
Add an answer. Answers can be typed text and/or recorded audio.
Other peoples' answers are hidden until you add your own answer. This way your answer is not affected by other existing answers. If you see a link that says Show 1 or more answers (or similar), click it to see other answers.
On the Users page, permissions can be granted or denied regarding who can add & edit questions.
In Community Checking, the
All Questions area appears in the Navigation pane when there are questions in two or more books. There you see all the questions, not limited to a specific book.
Questions that have not been read have a bold font.
The number of current answers to each question appears near each question. Example:
(question mark) appears in the text of the book that has a question and that text is highlighted.